According to a recent Kaiser Family Foundation survey, 50% of New Orleans area residents reported problems receiving medical care.

This shortage have caused many nurses and travel nurses to take bold steps and make sacrifices to bring their nursing expertise to the still-struggling region.

Here’s a great story in CNN about one nurse who is giving back in an extraordinary way. Nonna Bullock is a Mississippi resident and a nurse who commutes 280 miles to work 4-days a week in New Orleans.

That’s what Mississippi resident Nonna Bullock does. For Bullock, working four days a week in New Orleans wasn’t something she was required to do, it was a choice. Read about this heroic nurse’s travels here.