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we use the term vulnerable is there something that bad is about to happen what we saw with Katrina was that all these bad things had happened long before the storm hit and the storm just made it so much more visible to all of us typically there are not deaths in disasters going up and down the streets and knowing there was a body found in a particular house it was like a war zone major disaster a million people displaced those who are least able to recover in a sort of disaster and it brought together what we try to do as a foundation our mission is to improve the health and healthcare for all Americans by affecting the systems in which health and health care are delivered within days dr. Lumpkin started pulling together staff the people on the Katrina team here at the foundation came with such extraordinary expertise and passion our very first grant went to the american red cross and this grant was four million dollars it usually takes us months to get out a grant for a million dollar