Requiem for Charity

Part Two of our journey back to New Orleans in Jan. 2007. Featuring our friend, Dr. Kiersta Kurtz-Burke and her personal story of being all trapped at Charity Hospital during Katrina with over 1200 patients until being evacuated 6 days later!

[@dmmnola]

University Hospital is serving as the interim Charity Hospital, but has less than Half the capacity. The private hospitals are crumbling financially trying to treat indigent patients in their emergency rooms. Over 200 psychiatric beds were lost in the New Orleans area due to Katrina. Fifteen psychiatric beds have reopened. The suicide rate has tripled.

[@dmmnola]

July, 2008 : 50 more psychiatric beds open in the city. 20 more acute beds at SELSH in Mandeville. We're getting there. Outpatient services are chaotic and mismanaged.

[@tammygouletschrader8785]

So the hospital I hear was cleaned and decontaminated and ready to reopen and take patients but the city closed the doors. Why?

[@nicodemisthenecroman]

Maybe thats the solution? Isn't that what the powers that be are promoting...

[@cjmarsh504]

No, Sandygrl94 they didn't build no new hospital just because LSU is broke and the state is in the red.