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MUHA staff assists employee's family after Katrina The last time Hospital Patient Accounting’s Carla Jones heard from her sister, Brenda Davalie, and her family, they were leaving their New Orleans home and evacuating the area Aug. 27. On Aug. 31, Jones received a second call from Davalie as she  scrambled out of their battered storm refuge in Collins, Miss., towards family in Charleston.   Comforted by her family, Davalie and her two teenage daughters recounted the days of their own dramatic escape to local camera crews. Like thousands of other Hurricane Katrina victims, they lost everything. A nurse by training, Davalie is seeking work to assist in her family’s rebuilding. Following the broadcast, Jones received a call from several staff at MUHA’s Department of Human Resources. In a gracious act of kindness, several employees and their families collected money and presented it to Jones to give to her sister and her displaced family.      “Their generosity took me by surprise,” said Jones, who’s worked with MUHA for almost six years. “It will take a lot for this family to start from scratch. This really does show that people truly have a giving heart. All of us are very grateful for their help and prayers.”     Friday, Sept. 16, 2005 Catalyst Online is published weekly, updated as needed and improved from time to time by the MUSC Office of Public Relations for the faculty, employees and students of the Medical University of South Carolina. Catalyst Online editor, Kim Draughn, can be reached at 792-4107 or by email, catalyst@musc.edu. Editorial copy can be submitted to Catalyst Online and to The Catalyst in print by fax, 792-6723, or by email to petersnd@musc.edu or catalyst@musc.edu. To place an ad in The Catalyst hardcopy, call Community Press at 849-1778.