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University Medical Center New Orleans was opened in 2015 as a partial replacement for Charity Hospital and other closed or deprecated institutions within the city. [2]
Lindy Boggs Medical Center, formerly known as Mercy Hospital and also known as Lindy Boggs Hospital, is a now-abandoned 187-bed acute care hospital operated by Tenet Healthcare located in Mid-City New Orleans, Louisiana. The hospital provided many services, including emergency care, critical care, and organ transplantation services.
Memorial Medical Center [a] in New Orleans, Louisiana was heavily damaged when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. [1] In the aftermath of the storm, while the building had no electricity and went through catastrophic flooding after the levees failed, Dr. Anna Pou, along with other doctors and nurses, attempted to continue caring for patients. [2]
In the years that followed, New Orleans followed a pattern seen across the U.S.: large mental institutions and psychiatric facilities closed down, many on account of reports of mistreatment and abuse.
Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital is a 2013 non-fiction book by the American journalist Sheri Fink.The book details the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans in August 2005, and is an expansion of a Pulitzer Prize-winning article written by Fink and published in The New York Times Magazine in 2009.
University Medical Center New Orleans (UMCNO), is a 446-bed [1] non-profit, public, research and academic hospital located in the Tulane - Gravier neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, providing tertiary care for the southern Louisiana region and beyond. University Medical Center New Orleans is one of the region's only university-level ...
Touro Infirmary is affiliated with the Louisiana State University Health Science Center and Tulane University School of Medicine. The hospital has been located in Uptown New Orleans, within the historic Garden District since 1911. It is near the intersection of Louisiana Avenue and Prytania Street.
New Orleans East Hospital (Eastern New Orleans) - New Orleans; Ochsner Baptist Medical Center (formerly Memorial Medical Center) - New Orleans; Touro Infirmary - New Orleans; Tulane University Medical Center - New Orleans; University Hospital, New Orleans (defunct) - New Orleans; University Medical Center New Orleans - New Orleans; VA Medical ...