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March 14, 2006
Rally at Charity to Save the Hospital: 25 March, 2 pm
From: The People’s Hurricane Relief Fund and Doctors Without Hospitals
Place: OUTSIDE Charity Hospital in downtown New Orleans (Map)
Speakers:
1. James Moises, MD, Charity Hospital emergency room physician
2. Jeff Wiese, MD, chief of medical service at Charity Hospital
3. John Dreyfous, grandson of Charity Hospital’s original architect
4. Brad Ott, Charity Hospital patient
5. James Carter, attorney and candidate for council district C
On March 25, 2006, at 2 p.m. CST, several hundred doctors, residents, medical students, nurses, hospital employees, politicians, and political activists will be meeting outside Charity Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana to protest the closure of this esteemed public hospital. Considered the oldest continuously running public hospital in the country, Charity has cared for millions of members of the New Orleans community for two centuries. These New Orleans residents are now largely without access to healthcare and forced to rely entirely on understaffed emergency rooms for basic health needs, such as monthly prescriptions and routine medical complaints. This shift has caused a healthcare catastrophe in the New Orleans metropolitan area and will be the focus of this rally, along with a discussion of the future of Charity Hospital and the fate of this city’s uninsured.
18 March: Hospital Leaders: System Cracking (WBRZ)
17 March: Closure of Charity strains Jeff Hospitals (Times-Picayune)
15 March: New Orleans Hospitals in Critical Condition (ABC News)
Posted by Niels Olson at March 14, 2006 10:44 AM
Comments
You have an interesting site. I was a resident at Charity also, and am now nearby in McComb, MS. I have been blogging about Katina since October.
I hope the rally is intended to save Charity in spirit only and not necessarily the phyiscal facility. As a facilty, Charity is so outdated with its ward-type patient rooms with 10 patients to a shower and an infrastructure that was designed before wall O2 and computers, or even a modern phone system! Patients deserve a state of the art facility, and this is want I want for the New Charity.
At my old medical school (MCV of Richmond, Virigina), the school had a hospital it had built after Charity (sometime in the 50s) and abandoned for labs and office space all while Chariy was still running! MCV is an older medical school than LSU or Tulane Med School, I believe (1838) and has long traditions, but the people there understand that an institution is not a building and that, especially in medicine, updated facilities are crucial to growth.
Posted by: mchebert at March 16, 2006 8:04 AM
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