The Italian Prisoner by Elisa M. Speranza

Ĭharity Hospital quickly outgrew its original facility, and a second hospital was built at the edge of the colony on Basin Street in 1743. Only Bellevue Hospital in New York City is older, having been founded a month earlier, on March 31, 1736. It was the second oldest continuously operated public hospital in the United States. The hospital was founded 18 years after the city was founded by France in 1718. The first Charity Hospital was located on the intersection of Chartres Street and Bienville Street in what is now the French Quarter. Ĭharity Hospital was originally named the Hospital of Saint John or L’Hôpital des Pauvres de la Charité (The Charity Hospital for the Poor). His last will and testament was to finance a hospital for the indigent in the colony of New Orleans from his estate.

The building is approximately six-tenths of a mile on the opposite side of I-10 from Interim LSU Hospital.Ĭharity Hospital was founded on May 10, 1736, by a grant from Jean Louis, a French sailor and shipbuilder, who died in New Orleans the year before. Prior to Katrina, Charity Hospital operated in the New Orleans Hospital District at 1532 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112–1352. University Hospital, later called Interim LSU Hospital, closed in 2015. Charity Hospital and the nearby University Hospital were both teaching hospitals affiliated with the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans (LSUHSC-NO). Organization Ĭharity Hospital was one of several public hospitals around the state of Louisiana administered by the Louisiana State University System at the time of Hurricane Katrina. The new hospital completed in August 2015 was named University Medical Center New Orleans.

It chose to incorporate Charity Hospital into the city's new medical center in the lower Mid-City neighborhood.

The Louisiana State University System, which owns the building, stated that it had no plans to reopen the hospital in its original location. Three weeks after the events of Hurricane Katrina, then-Governor Kathleen Blanco said that Charity Hospital would not reopen as a functioning hospital.

Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Tulane University School of MedicineĬharity Hospital was one of two teaching hospitals which were part of the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (MCLNO), the other being University Hospital.

The Italian Prisoner by Elisa M. Speranza