Charity Hospital Replacement Opens Saturday in New Orleans

Ten years after the levees and floodwalls broke during Hurricane Katrina and flooded New Orleans, the Big Easy finally has a full-scale public hospital again — a new Charity hospital

NEW ORLEANS—Ten years after the levees and floodwalls broke during Hurricane Katrina and flooded New Orleans, the Big Easy finally has a full-scale public hospital again — a new Charity hospital.

At 6 a.m. Saturday, the new 1.6-million-square-foot University Medical Center New Orleans, built with $1.1 billion of federal rebuilding money, ambulances and medical staff began the transfer of 200 patients into the new hospital for its first day of operations. Orchestrating the move required closing down streets as ambulances take patients into the facility, affectionately also called the “Spirit of Charity.”

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