Charity Hospital (New Orleans)
29°57′19″N 90°04′41″W / 29.955383°N 90.077957°W / 29.955383; -90.077957
Charity Hospital was one of two teaching hospitals which were part of the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (MCLNO). Three weeks after the events of Hurricane Katrina, then Governor Kathleen Blanco said that Charity Hospital would not reopen, even though the military had scrubbed the building to medical-ready standards. The Louisiana State University System, which owns the building, has stated that it has no plans to reopen the hospital in its original location, choosing instead to incorporate it into the city's new medical center currently being constructed in the lower Midcity neighborhood.
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