Mike Arbon shared a photo on Facebook of Charity Hospital, where he said he saw a “small bright Christmas tree that was put in the window.” He works across the street at Tulane Medical Center.
History of the old Charity Hospital:
The shuttered main entrance of New Orleans’ Charity Hospital (left), after storm and flood damage (right) from Hurricane Katrina closed it down in 2005.
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Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, Charity Hospital was the pride of New Orleans. A 1930s Art Deco–style icon built with WPA funds, Charity was one of the oldest continually operating public hospitals in the country and was regarded as one of the most vital and successful. “Charity was one of the best teaching hospitals in the country, where students from Tulane and LSU did their training,” says Dr. James Moises, a former Charity emergency room physician, noting that it served 100,000 patients a year before the storm.
The abandonment of the old Charity Hospital stands as a potent symbol of the many disappointments and betrayals experienced by the residents of New Orleans after Katrina. The loss has been a huge blow to the poor African-American community Charity served—an outcome that is all the more tragic, critics say, because it didn’t have to happen.
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