Talk:Charity Hospital (New Orleans)

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Coordinates[edit]

Added coordinates for Charity Hospital as per Google Maps D.c.camero (talk) 03:28, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

History (Location)[edit]

Girod, Gravier, St. Mary, and Common Streets are all parallel and do not mark a location for the historic hospital to have existed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rwaldron (talk • contribs) 22:44, 25 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree -- such an address is impossible. There's a 2015 article in the Times-Picayune that gives this address (https://www.nola.com/health/index.ssf/2015/06/from_lhospital_des_pauvres_to.html), but I think it was quoting Wikipedia. According to HNOC, the street address for the Old Charity Hospital was 1516 Tulane Avenue, on the corner of modern Tulane Avenue and LaSalle Street (http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/1/153080) (http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/1/153087) (http://hnoc.minisisinc.com/thnoc/catalog/1/153095), though someone should look in the City Directories in the 1930s to be sure. Wikipedia says New Charity is on ‎1532 Tulane Avenue, which sounds about right.

Richard Campanella (in his 2015 book Lost New Orleans, p. 52-53) gives the site of Old Charity as Common Street (now Tulane Avenue) between Howard Street (now LaSalle) and Robertson Street (which would be next to I-10 if it still existed there). This is inside the modern Hospital District, and Campanella specifically says many other hospitals, including what is now the Tulane Medical Center, moved to the area in the 1800s because Charity was there first. My own research from several historic maps and photographs confirms that Old Charity was here, and that New Charity was built over the site of Old Charity. Note that Tulane Avenue becomes Common Street on the other side of Elk Place, so Common may have been the original name of Tulane Avenue in the 1800s. The 1859 Harper's Weekly article doesn't give an address, but it says Charity was on Common in those days. Winston Ho 何嶸 (talk) 07:11, 17 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm assessing this article as "start" class, partly because that's what the other WikiProjects have it at, and also because there's a lot of unreferenced material, there's no info box, and while it contains a lot of useful and interesting information, it is also missing some critical information, such as the number of beds the hospital had when it opened, the number of beds it had when it closed, etc (there's actually only one reference to a number of beds in the whole article). I'm rating the article as top importance within WikiProject Hospitals, given the facts that it is second oldest continually operated public hospital in the United States, it is a historic building that was listed as one of America's Most Endangered Places in 2008, it was apparently the second best level 1 trauma center in the United States, and it has been featured in numerous television shows. PCHS-NJROTC ^(Messages) 17:11, 17 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Why Charity Hospital didn't open?[edit]

After Hurricane Katrina, only the basement flooded at Charity Hospital. Doctors and military personnel who worked on the cleanup team reported that the hospital was medically ready within two weeks.[1]https://www.iaedjournal.org/charity-hospital A.Nachee (talk) 02:10, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]