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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]
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.
August 29, 2005 – Although Hurricane Katrina's eye came ashore in lower Plaquemines Parish Louisiana, the resulting storm surge resulted in multiple levee failures in the New Orleans area, flooding approximately 80% of the city, with some places being inundated by more than 15 ft (4.6 m) of water. The failures of the levees were considered ...
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The History of Southern Baptist Hospital. Printed by Parthenon Press. Southern Baptist Hospital. LCCN 70084660. OCLC 13849. OL 5694914M. Fink, Sheri (2013). Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital. Crown Publishings. ISBN 978-0-307-71897-6
Get the New Orleans, LA local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days. ... More than a week into what could be the costliest wildfires in U.S. history, weary and anxious Los Angeles-area ...
Imagining New Orleans Oral History Project Collection. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Wombell, James A. (2009). Army Support During the Hurricane Katrina Disaster (PDF). The Long War Occasional Paper. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute Press. ISBN 978-0-9801236-9-2
L’Hospital des Pauvres de la Charite was opened in 1736 as a charitable institution and was a modest operation then located on the corner of Chartres and Bienville streets. This institution later evolved into Charity Hospital , located on Tulane Avenue , which was constructed in 1939; at the time, it was the second largest hospital in the ...