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The New Orleans Musicians' Clinic (NOMC) is a health service providing New Orleans musicians access to affordable medical services utilizing such facilities as a medical school, volunteers, and community providers. The NOMC hosts community blood drives including live performers supporting the Blood Center of New Orleans.
Charity Hospital was closed in 2005 after significant damage was caused by Hurricane Katrina. [1] 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.
1887 Medical Department of Drake University, 1903 Drake University College of Medicine, 1908 absorbed Keokuk Medical College, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1913 merged with the State University of Iowa College of Medicine [2] Iowa Iowa Medical College Keokuk 1858 1860 [2] Iowa Iowa Medical College, Eclectic Des Moines 1881 1882 1887
Charity Hospital was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina and closed while Interim LSU Hospital (ILH) was extensively renovated and reopened November 20, 2006. A new facility named University Medical Center New Orleans opened on August 1, 2015, replacing both facilities. [1] [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.
On 19 July 2006, Ochsner Health System announced they were acquiring Memorial Medical Center along with two other Tenet Hospitals in the Greater New Orleans area, Meadowcrest Hospital in Gretna, Louisiana and Kenner Regional Medical Center in Kenner, Louisiana. The sale was expected to be finalized by the end of August. [2]
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.