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Founded as a hospital for the poor, Charity Hospital began in 1736 as just a small cottage built on the goodwill of a dying French merchant. Ran by the nuns of the Daughters of Charity and serving the city of New Orleans for close to 300 years, it gradually transformed into an enormous public institution – into Big Charity – and a longstanding symbol of compassion, a seemingly eternal place of safety and a beacon of hope in the community. Today the towering art deco building, closed abruptly after Hurricane Katrina hit in August 2005, stands empty, and the community continues to suffer devastating consequences from its absence.
This documentary film includes never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews to tell the story of Charity Hospital, from its roots to its controversial closing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. From the firsthand accounts of healthcare providers and hospital employees who withstood the storm inside the hospital, to interviews with key players involved in the closing of Charity, Big Charity shares the untold, true story around its demise and sheds new light on the sacrifices made for the sake of progress.
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Louisiana politics at its finest.
ABSOLUTE GREED!!!!
All those execs talking up that new hospital & especially the older man w/ the silver gray hair talking about aesthetics & all that bs, I say, when ur puking your guts out or you've got 3 or 4 bullets in you, I can promise that ur really not gonna give a shyt about "aesthetics"!
Plus, I feel sorry for the ppl that lost their homes, especially the vet!😢
Also, why couldn't the old hospital have been rehabbed into apts for low income housing w/ a health clinic on the 1st floor, & a day care center on the second floor?
Oops, did I just come up w/ a brilliant idea for low income Americans that even our $ hungry government can see some return on their investment?
Oh God forbid!
Did the doctors and nurses get other jobs during that time? Were they allowed to take money from their 401(K) pensions without tax penalites? Where are they now? Can they get jobs and be the first in line at the new hospital?
Took my first breath inside Charity hospital and nearly took my last breath there when I fell out the second story window of an apartment building when I was a a preschooler. Drove from Baton Rouge with my cousin so she could take her preschooler son to get treatments for the tumors on his throat. I can't understand why they would not rebuild that hospital. But then again, I know why. SMH
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Think abt hospital workers during Katrina then think abt them during Covid…if their is a group that has shown the very best of America, they r it!!
U look at the hospital workers and the rescuers then u look at law enforcement and how they responded at the jail..it shld tell u all u need to know so their action today shld be no surprise
The State of Louisiana found a way to cut costs and they did it at the expense of the most vulnerable. Charity was closed because of greed. Plain and simple.
He vein of corrupt politics runs deep and wide in Louisiana
Horrible those people had to lose their homes twice. Once to Katrina, 2nd to politics
Somebody has a lot of lives on their conscience. Moral, ethical issues vs political. I feel sorry for you on ur judgement day
You know h onky white racist are so wicked. Because even if it means throwing a few other h onkies under the bus. Just to be racist toward black Americans they will do it. We know that black Americans benefited from that hospital.
Building a new hospital is good but to put people through all that crap in the meantime is so freaking horrible. There was so much of a time-lapse but didn't have to be that way I feel so bad for you people that had to endure all this crap.. coming at you from Florida guy gave me my greatest sympathy I really really do I have not had to go through that only some of the other things associated with it pretty close but that's my story and one day I might share
Government has to get funding to open up more buildings and build more buildings. It's just the way it is.. I hate to say it but I see how it is now.. find ways to spend more money and get more money untax the people and just keep that tax machine going
Yeah Blanco probably definitly had a hand in the money pot. Destroying Charity for government money and to line peoples pockets in the process. Dr. Deblieux was definitely told not to talk about it. The blood is on the governments hands. The thing is by not re-opening Charity in the interim you have probably killed many people, you still could have built a new hospital while you are taking care of patients at Charity. LMFAO the name Charity was offensive give me AF'ing break. Charity Hospital could have been upgraded to that of UMC.
Such a terrible mess, in the future there should be generators on the roof instead of on the ground level.
I NEED YOU, YOU NEED ME. WE'RE ALL APART OF GOD'S FIGHT. STAND WITH ME, AGREE WITH ME. WE'RE ALL APART OF GOD'S FIGHT. IT IS HIS WILL, THAT EVERY NEED BE SUPPLIED. YOU ARE IMPORTANT TO ME. I NEED YOU TO SURVIVE❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Every time I pass Big Charity, an emptiness overtakes me. Truly a sad chapter
This is why i don't ever want to live or work in louisiana most corrupt state that keeps complaining they never have any money and don't take care of its own people
This is just gross to see. The level of digust is beyond measure
The powerful will keep wining unless we unite as a country and stop them. How?? Let's stop everything, not go to work. Stay home in protest. See how fast they will listen as they will lose money with no workers. Enough of the corruption enough is enough of the wealth inequality enough of these corporations enriching themselves om the suffering of the rest of us
So many kind people who put others first. Love this
And the sad part is the new hospital doesn’t compare a fraction to old charity. Sad
Watching medical personal be transported by medic chopper in front of critical vent patients being bagged. I wasnt there so maybe there was some reason they needed to transport first?? But this once again say a lot about how Hospitals facilitate based on their status. My 23 yrs working in Level I & II trauma centers in ER ICU i might be jaded but Its a business bottom line is profit over humans
He went get his baby ❤😅
Those ppl couldn’t even be there for their own families 😢
Oh America 🤦♂️
The simple truth is that the city of NOLA and LSU wanted a pretty, new building and the storm was a perfect excuse. Instead of fixing and renovating a building that has proved itself to be able to stand the worst of the worst storms with minimal (if any) damage they chose to displace a huge number of their population and destroy blocks of historic homes all for the sake of greed and vanity…….MAKES ME SICK! The people of New Orleans are the kindest, most welcoming, fun people you'll ever meet and they deserve so much better.
THE SPIRIT IS STILL THERE
“I know there were people living there who were inconvenienced” YOU EVICTED THEM FROM THEIR WHOLE LIVES YES THEYRE “INCONVENIENCED”
Too bad they couldn't register it as a historical property
Clear demonstration of how America really actually works. In short, it doesn't work at all.
Tulane was not a 90 percent minority hospital that's why they were evacuated they had the capital or credit line or income really sad that we don't call it out and we all know it.
Charity saved my life from 3 GSW's and broken bones