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Abandoned - Charity Hospital
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- Опубликовано: 2 май 2019
- After over a decade since one of the worlds most destructive storms, the remnants of what became one of the most iconic victims still stands today. A hospital which has been operating for more than a century was finally taken down by Mother Nature and ultimately abandoned to today. This is Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
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When are you going to do summer wind resort in Land O Lakes WI? It's haunted, no joke...
Bright Sun Films You should do an Abandoned episode Toys R Us America
Its probally insignificant but there's this small place of DK unitlted that was the Headquarters and it lays abondan in a small town in NJ
Can you do a Six Flags New Orleans 2019 update?
This one actually made me sad. A hospital that's selflessly helped people for 250 years, gone in just a few days.
@taxid3rmy "To rack and ruin". I hope this doesn't sound creepy, but I love the way you write, lol.
@taxid3rmy It sounds intelligent, don't let the world change you :)
This is angering.
@Abcity corruption, clear a simple
Had the same effect here, usually don't get too sad at these videos, but this one...there's a lot of symbolism in it I guess.
The staff in that hospital saved my life over 15 years ago. The best trauma team in the state of Louisiana were in that building
Wait, were you stuck in the building during Katrina?
@@musarretbajwa no. I was good and gone before Katrina struck
Glad you're still here!
Why does this have so many likes yet so few comments?!!
Jeso317, I don’t know who you are but I hope you’re living your best life man
Don’t forget that the elevators didn’t work so these staff had to carry all those patients up many flights of stairs
I can’t imagine how terrifying that whole experience was for doctors/nurses, and patients
I’d also I mange that the stairs in that build aren’t up to modern standards so just imagine carrying 200lb Patient in critical condition up a flight of narrow, steep and most likely soaking wet concrete stairs.
@@usefulpineapple4538
How did only two people die? That sounds like a recipe for pancake nurses and doctors, crushed under stretchers and patients.
WOW!
You can also say that it was Jesus Christ that gave them the strength to lift all the patients to the top and save all of them. :-)
Engineering lesson- don't put back up generators in the basement in a city that is prone to flooding.
Or your city below sea level.
Or data centers, but people do anyway.
Majority of buildings here don't even have basements, because we are below sea level
When flooding exists.
Engineer's: ruclips.net/video/gvdf5n-zI14/видео.html
The whole city needs an engineering lesson. Its not the normal folk, its political. So much gets wasted due to it and it is infuriating for a person from there.
As a nurse, I cannot imagine what it was like for the staff and patients, especially those in the icu. Constantly bag ventilating patients would be exhausting. Not only that, the iv pumps would die about 5 hours after power was off. So the nurses would have to go back to the old ways of calculating drip rates (keep in mind, some icu patients can have 10+ iv lines running at once) and hope that the patients were getting the right doses of medications keeping them alive. Great video as always!
It had to have killed the doctors and nurses to lose the patients that they did because of Katrina.
Anna Read Five Days at Memorial. It’s about what happened at Memorial Hospital in NOLA in the week following Katrina. What a horror.
It's absolutely embarrassing that it took a country with the military might we have FIVE DAYS for an air evac. It's happening again, too
They shouldnt pass the Nclex if they can't do basic dimensional analysis. Calculating accurate medication dose and rate is drilled throughout nursing school. I think documenting properly and possibly making mistakes is a huge problem since we are coddled as health care workers when it comes to safety, our new systems decreases risk for errors which causes us to rely on muscle memory rather than staying cautious of mistakes.
shaelovebeyonce All of that is fine and dandy until you have to calculate dosage and drip rates for multiple patients with multiple lines with little to no sleep, little to no light, heat, humidity and God knows what else. I can’t even imagine the amount of medication errors that might have happened even if they weren’t fatal.
This Hospital should be renovated and reopened. The Staff of Charity during the events of Hurricane Katrina went above and beyond the call of duty by keeping so many patients alive during their darkest hours. To anyone who reads this and was part of the medical operations during the hurricane, Thank you for being the professionals you are, and your actions will never be forgotten..
I'm sorry but we're not rich at all
Well put, I’m a UK nurse and the admiration I have for these good souls is immense x
@@harryandmarv6532 Who's not rich at all?
It’s not, I live here, & they’ve started demolition on the inside so construction can begin later this year & it’s going to have 390 apartments, retail shops on the lower levels & a few restaurants. LSU owned & ran Charity hospital & after Katrina they decided to build University Medical Center so no need for Charity hospital to be reopened.
@@topiasr628 I think the point is that someone would have to actually pay for the 'renovated and reopened'. People are really good at volunteering other peoples' money for things like this.
Just as an update, apparently in Oct 2019 Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors approved plans to redevelop the historic former hospital, paving the way for the vacant 20-story building to be turned into a mix of homes, retail space and other facilities. Nice that it will not be demolished or forgotten :D
And no updated news I could find since then. Wonder how much impact COVID is having on the redevelopment. Though it looks like the Warwick Hotel has moved forward.
Too bad they couldn’t bring the hospital back
I honestly hate that. This place was built to help people. It has the intention of doing so in its walls. But the best they could do was make it a place for housing and retail space? It was LSU’s fault in the first place.
Don't doubt, apartments will be very helpful too. Hopefully they're affordable ones.
@@garyruss3529 I live here & they’ve already started to demo the inside so work can begin later this year.
The hospital staff that stayed during Katrina are real life hero’s. They are truly deserving of a lifetime of praise and thanks.
Its a shame, I did my Paramedic ER/OBGYN internship there. It was a place that never slept and its still sad to see it so quiet. Thanx Jake
What year did you grad?
Love these kind of comments
we need more boomers on RUclips
@@igelbeatz Katrina wasn't that long ago. Gen X and even "the dreaded" millennial could have easily schooled/worked there lol
How many died in there?
When have you ever seen a hospital that "slept"????
The medical staff that stayed behind should have all gotten medals! It was their job, but they went above and beyond!
Andrew Schembri My step sister had to stay behind. She said it was awful. When she she was able to leave, she came to Alabama to stay. She had nightmares for a long time. According to her, it was difficult to keep the dialysis patients alive.
@@ckendall9955 Was she staff, or a patient? If she's staff, tell her I think she's a god damn hero! It's one thing to put the filtered blood BACK into the person on low, to no power, it's another to keep them from going into a coma, or toxic shock if they go too long without it!
@@bakomusha Oh yeah, agreed. Those are hard enough jobs when the power is actually on.
True.
Absolutely agree with u!!
I'm impressed by how good it looks after being abandoned for so long, yeah it's still in disrepair, but a lot of that interior doesn't look terrible,
*Came here:* Expecting a urban exploration video.
*Left here:* Educated thoroughly.
Well bro welcome to the the Abandoned series
I was born in that hospital. I'm currently a few blocks from it.
I like to scissor other women for fun.
@@Glorious_Kim_Jong_Un how are you still alive? Smh
Me too. 💔
Ooga booga
@@danndidntask4057 Unga bunga
It’s nice to see you cover something that wasn’t a glamorous tourist attraction. I don’t mean to shade your prior works but this is a breath of fresh air.
Haha it's something new!
There’s something about the architecture of the new hospital that’s pretentious, overly modern and self absorbed. The old hospital was mighty yet humble.
Absolutely, another beautiful building murdered on the altar of modernization that will not only be out of fashion in two years after completion but also ruin an amazing piece of history. They seem to teach more hubris than skill at architecture schools these days.
@@Erreul the same is happening with churches and such, those stupid mega churches are so ugly. And I see many classic churches abandoned.
@@ADrunkCrayfish That's very unfortunate.
@@ADrunkCrayfish It bothers me too. Those modern age churches look so corporate and dead to the eye. I always felt the traditional church designs looked more akin to a home, which is what a church should be.
The newbie is a cardboard new build of a fleeting idea via appearance anyway.
The old was a sturdy trusted beauty :-)
Way before this hurricane, the city KNEW the levies needed to be fixed and they refused to do it.
Yeah, its been highly criticised that the tragedy was mostly preventable.
@Logan Stroganoff
Without question Gov. Blanco had her problems, but what Mayor Nagin did during the Katrina crisis was criminal.
It was more they built on it like idiots
The truth is that the State of Louisiana had requested Federal Funds to help with Levee redesign and modification because any construction on the Levees are under US Army Corps of Engineers control. The Federal Government simply would not approve the amount of money needed to make the levee system strong enough to withstand a monster storm like Katrina. Regarding Katrina’s strength, all this attempt to minimize the windspeed and call Katrina a Category 1 or 2 is an outright lie. The catastrophic damage was well documented and there were hurricane force winds from Baton Rouge all the way to Mobile, Alabama. Google the devastation pictures from Slidell and Bogalusa and Covington, Louisiana. Then look at the pictures from Biloxi and Gulfport, Mississippi. I have been a 64 year resident of the area around New Orleans and can tell you that Katrina was no Category 1 or 2. This is a lame attempt to try to blame everyone except the Federal Government who repeatedly denied funding which was repeatedly requested for levee modifications. The levees in New Orleans East were only 10 feet high and storm surge was near 25 feet so the levees didn’t have to fail in that area because the water was well above the levees to begin with. Look at the damage done to the I-10 bridges from New Orleans to Slidell where that surge entered Lake Ponchartrain and if you think a levee was going to stop that enormous amount of water at a height of 25 feet or more then you don’t have a clue what you are talking about. Google pictures of I-10 after Katrina and see for yourself.
@MELEKH HA OLAM The Saga Continues The levees are administered by the Levee Board but all construction and modifications and funding are Federal via the U S Army Corps of Engineers.
The architecture of the hospital is absolutely beautiful, it's sad to see a gorgeous building like this decay
The building itself looks like a fortress, and its early 1900's architecture is stunning.
@@BrightSunFilms Agreed, also kinda would've been cool to do a haunted house in there
I also like art déco. 😄 My town even has one of the largest amount of art déco buildings in the world.
A lot of my family members where born in charity hospital
And they will die there as well
Jk
EmptyHand49 Not funny
EmptyHand49 pretty funny mane
Hollywood inside calls you.
@@EmptyHand49 *dark humor*
OMG I’m so crying right now. 😢 I’m from New Orleans and was here for Katrina as well. 💔 I was also born at Charity
Hospital so this one was extremely sad to watch, but I’m so glad you did it. Thank you!
I was born in Mercy and it's abandoned too
If it were me, here’s what I would do with the building: turn it into a medical and medical science university. It seems only fitting for a building with such a long and rich heritage of helping the sick and those in need. In my mind, it should be a state owned, non-profit public university with no tuition costs. There would be rooms in the building if students want to stay there, but those would have a small fee for rent and utilities (power and water aren’t cheap!). The Charity University of Medicine and Science has a nice ring to it.
It should still be run as charity hospital that is free for the poor!
Driving into NOLA is a really haunting experience when you pass this place. Sent a chill down my spine the last time I saw it
Rinku588 what’s Nola?
Mr Awesome shorthand of: New Orleans, Louisiana
Rinku588 ohh thx
Haunting? It’s just an abandoned building it’s no where near the scariest in the city
Evan Broussard tru dat
It's really tragic. The National Guard (or maybe army idk) cleaned it up, stocked it, and got it prepared for operation, but it never reopened. The University decided instead to spend hundreds of millions on a new hospital, when they could have updated charity to modern standards (private rooms and the works which it didn't have) for much less and preserved history. I learned all about this from a documentary by a local university student. It's really sad to see it sit empty.
And the ‘funny’ thing is.. I bet you wouldn’t have heard one complaint from the sick or infirm regarding ‘private rooms’. They were just so grateful & thankful for care & treatment. It’s always the big dogs that want to push the modern agendas. My mother was both a patient & a nurse through the era’s of times gone by in hospitals here in the U.K. where wards were a place of communication, spirit lifting laughter / banter, support, & love. Now it’s a case of pushing private rooms where people can be forgotten 😔
That hospital should have merely been updated, it wouldn’t have taken even 1/4 of the funds to do it that it did to build a new facility. So very sad.
Get me 169 subs and I will reveal something it is because the university found a way to get others to pay for a huge chunk of the new hospital, meaning the US taxpayer.
Laura Williams in the US most hospitals are converting to private rooms because of the HIPAA laws. Even small hospitals in more rural areas have converted to single patient rooms throughout.
Get me 169 subs and I will reveal something - that was the intention of the construction companies that profited its all about destruction and building new - they never want to make upgrading a building look like a reasonable option / ant the people pay and pay and pay.
@@nomorewar4189 That was on the part of the owners of the building, not any construction companies. They decided they'd rather have a new hospital rather than fix the entirely repairable current one, so pressured the government to declare it unrepairable. If you or I did that, it would be called insurance fraud.
Let’s get this old thing back and running cuz we need it
"Too big to demolish, too costly to renovate" 💔 💔 😢
Just like the Michigan Central station building in Detroit. I think they may be FINALLY doing something with that, but who knows this year.
R.I.P charity hospital (1736-2005)
Also north brother island in NYC for the next abandoned episode
Firebolt Prime True. Brother Island is really interesting. Too bad there is not footage inside due to the insane amount of security.
Rip juice wrld 1998-2019
I listened to a podcast episode about Charity. They interviewed staff that worked there during the hurricane. It is so chilling! They described how the helicopters were supposed to be on their way but never showed up and they didn’t understand why but being in the hospital they didn’t understand just how bad it was out there and that the helicopters had stopped along the way to help people that were stranded on their roofs and everywhere else. They talked about how the elevators didn’t work and they were having to carry people up and down huge flights of stairs. How they had one radio to try to catch a glimpse of what was happening outside of the hospital. How hot it was. The smells. Watching patients die. Just awful. 😢
What podcast???
@@moth9181 the podcast is “Radiolab” and the episode was called “Playing God”. There is also a good documentary on it called Big Charity. I think it’s on Amazon Prime.
@@knicholsch This was actually about Memorial. Different hospital, but still fascinating.
There was a song abt that, Help is on the way, by Rise Against.
My dad had a buddy who volunteered to clean up bodies after Katrina, truly gruesome stuff. I’ve lived in New Orleans almost my entire life and charity has stood as a haunting reminder of the tragic epic that is saga of New Orleans.
I know I’m late to the video. If you have never been to New Orleans, you don’t realize how heroic it was that staff stayed, in the heat and horrid humidity, with no power, manually keeping patients alive. These nurses and doctors should be praised as heroes. Charity hospital was huge and was a beautiful landmark. What they did in the time it was open was a real gift to Louisiana.
Fr yeah.
Maybe someone should start a 'charity' to get it renovated.
Project Nightmare
I was gonna make that pun
now you will be PUNished
youre so funny can i be u?
hey oh
LSU is the reason the hospital is closed. After Hurricane Katrina the hospital was cleaned and ready to serve people less than 1 month later. They shut it down to build a new TINY hospital on the white side of New Orleans.
Bre Alistic George Bush, doesn’t care about black people. I care though, just couldn’t resist using what Yeezy said.
Every time I drive by Charity, I think of *_blue FEMA tarps._*
I go to NOLA a couple times a year to visit family, but in 2005, family came to me, with 16 people in a 4 bedroom house. I saw those blue FEMA tarps when I returned with them to help clean up, and many of those tarps would be there around the city for years and years to come.
Edit: Fun fact, my great great grandmother died in Charity in 1919 of yellow fever. My grandfather lived through it (and later re-married), but nearly lost his life, and by extension, I almost never existed.
Also, my father did his clinicals at Charity, and he told me once that, although he didn't believe in ghosts, Charity has very haunted vibes. He told me that during his gave-yard shifts, nurse call-lights would go off in rooms with no patients in them, and other weird stories like that.
What is scary. I live two blocks from a FEMA office building and let me tell you. They do not have any signs saying it is a FEMA building.
@@Qardo well they don't really have a reason to advertise. There not a business after .
@@switchplayer1016 Oh I know. Still, they are not some secret government office building. What do they have to hide?? Hmmm...maybe Deus Ex is right. FEMA is up to something (I am joking. Do not take this seriously).
Ghosts in a 250 year old hospital? I wouldn't doubt it in the slightest.
@@kuceracm It was built in the 1930's. The continuation from the original hospital is what makes it 250 years old or whatever
Hospital: *abandoned and old*
Ghost hunters: It’s free real estate.
Man I teared up watching this one. I drive past that building everyday and this made me remember what the city was like when the storm hit. I hurt so bad to watch home literally drown. But Charity always had some the best doctors in the country and they made it happen for those patients
Anything: *is abandoned*
BSF: It’s showtime.
BSF: It’s free estate.
so Jake is Beetlejuice then??
I met a guy once who sounded like Michael Keaton, I told him he reminded me of Beetlejuice.....
I squash insects, you should see the juice that comes out of b------
[taps on shoulder]
don't do it.....don't say it a third time, you know what happens.....
BSF:It's High NOOOOOÒOON
bibasik7 facts XD
bibasik7 BSF: allow us to introduce ourselves.
i live by New Orleans and it is always so creepy to drive by Charity Hospital. I really hope it gets put to good use some day.
The property will likely be offices and condos...
Brian The Explorer *we live in a society*
I love art deco styling and it's a shame to me to see when a beautiful art deco building is abandoned or God forbid changed
Those medical workers should be memorialized. To be so dedicated to the well being of those that couldn't escape is beyond words.
(out of school for weekend)
(bright sun films uploads)
“Today was better than any other Friday.”
@@portal2kid ice cube
Charity hospital was a very big part in my family. My grandfather was born there, and his daughter( my mother) had worked there throughout the end of the 80s and most of the 90s. The stories she tells me of the place are amazing and the people that she tells me she helped really make me proud of her. She was a radio-ultrasound tech but helped with other things around there to. It’s funny two of the hospitals that’s she has worked at in are now abandoned, one being charity and the other being one up here in New Jersey where I am now. I lived in NOLA for most of my life. My friends at school made a thing that one day we would get into charity and explore the place but that never came true. It’s really sad to see what happened there. But the stories of the place are truly spectacularly hear.
I knew he wasn’t from down here as soon as he pronounced it “new orleeeens”.
Olivia Segari why would be from that specific town?
@@neonlights8012 Not necessarily from New Orleans but from the south in general. It's a little cringy to hear some one say New Or-leens instead of New Or-lens or Nawlens. I was born in central Louisiana and even though they lack the accent, nobody says it like that. Neither here in Texas where I currently reside.
Lol true
Naw lin's
Same 😂 I was like 🤔 he’s a northerner lmO
UPDATE AS OF 10/25/2019:
"The LSU Board of Supervisors gave developers approval today to turn the former New Orleans Charity Hospital building into an ambitious conglomerate of residential, retail and education spaces, among others.
Plans for the LSU-owned building on Tulane Avenue include both middle-income housing and luxury apartments, office spaces and a high school and an early learning center. Chairman of LSU’s Real Estate Facilities Foundation Jimmy Maurin said Tulane University staff offices and housing for the university’s medical students would ultimately take up around half of the building."
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So it appears the hospital has been given another chance at redevelopment. We'll see if anything will come out of it.
Jake & Bright Sun Films, Thank you for showing this video.
My cousin was in an automobile collision in 1972 and was left paralyzed.
Charity did wonders for her and and to this day, I'm am truly proud of Charity.
So sad that a lovely hospital has now gone to dis repair.
New Orleans has to do something with Charity and the long forgotten Plaza Tower.
I actually work at the “new” Charity Hospital which is called University Medical Center. They have started renovations on Charity from my knowledge but I hear of no other plans
They gotta fix the SWB first let’s be honest
King Williams215 your fucking delusional
Evan Broussard so true. But if you know the city then you know they do everything ass backwards. Its crazy cause after all these years, it still floods when it rains too hard & we are under boil water advisories at least one week out of every month.
NoCumBacks Your parents failed.
NoCumBacks or the white politicians stealing all the funds from Katrina until now. Fuck off & read an article before you just spread hate on the internet you ass wipe.
this whole place just gives off a horror movie type of feeling.
I am a registered nurse who worked in the recovery room at Charity back in the 1980's. This video was
gut- wrenching for me to watch. I met my husband there who was a Tulane surgery resident. We both have a soft place in our hearts for this hospital.
After I long days work I can relax with a new episode of abandoned
In Memphis, TN we have a huge abandoned Sears building that is similar in size to the Charity hospital, but it was recently renovated into what they named "Crosstown Concourse". There are now retail stores and apartments in the once abandoned building similar to what they hope to do with Charity Hospital.
Hello fellow Memphian!
I hope they turn it into an apartment complex because the design of the building is so unique that it could possibly work for housing
Brian The Explorer yeah it’s pretty big , it’s a small city itself
They did a similar thing with a Sears building in Minneapolis. It's turned into apartments, shops, and medical buildings I think
@Brian The Explorer It was a Sears warehouse and distribution center, not just a store
New hospitals are gross, give me this stunning architecture of Charity any day
We could use a hospital right about now.
We have so many. Touro, children’s, baptist, Ochsner main. Etc
jazzzmine rodriguez also UMC
Haha.... 😐
Ok Karen...
@@galactic-hamster7043 how is she a karen and you are not an a-hole?
This is stunning to see. My heart goes out to all the medical staff who stayed with the patients in that time, you do good work. It's really cool to know that after all this time, the life and foundation of the Hospital's mission should always ring true, no matter what. Thanks for this look, BSF.
Thank you, Jake, for covering this story. I remember watching footage shot from a helicopter of the city I grew up in only days after the storm hit and the feeling of uncertainty about everything was unforgettable. The storm came and turned everyone's lives upside down.
If you are interested in another abandoned hospital, the Earl K Long hospital in Baton Rouge might be worth checking out. Earl K Long was similar to Charity hospital in that it provided care to the poor and uninsured. After Charity closed, several patients were transported to Earl K Long to continue receiving care until it too closed down in 2013. With both hospitals closed, the patients were left to fend for themselves. This included the mental and behavioral health patients. It's a really sad situation all around. Unfortunately you would be a few years too late to explore Earl K Long since it was demolished in 2015.
Anyway, keep up the good work, Jake.
Earl K. Long...relative of Huey P. Long? There was a hospital by that name in the city of Alexandria in Louisiana. My mom worked at it for a bit when I was a kid.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValleyyes. Huey was his brother
I'd watch the shit out of that. Hell, I'd watch content about the histories of all of Baton Rouge's hospitals, particularly Women's Hospital and Our Lady of the Lake (OLOL) Regional Medical Center.
I'm from Houston so I have a different perspective on Katrina than most of the people in the US. I won't get into the politics and the circus that occurred in the months following the hurricane but I will say that just watching this brought back overwhelming feelings of helplessness and sadness. Our city took in refugees and the ones from the poorest neighborhoods stayed because there was literally nothing to go back to. My refugee students had terrible PTSD and that school year wasn't very productive for them. Their stories chilled me. I try not to watch too much stuff about it, same with TS Allison in Houston, but sometimes you have to remind yourself... Again, very well done, as always. Such hard work and lots of time put into it to produce a quality product.
Thanks to all the doctors and nurses that stayed behind to care for the patients
The Real heroes!!!
Despite the fact the hospital looking like a nightmare now both inside and outside,it still truly stands out by the fact that it was a hospital and once where people were treated and born so it surpasses it's "haunted" tone.
Building: *is abandoned*
BSF: it’s free real estate
Please for the love of God stop these comments aaaaaghhh
I Think thats called squatting.
Sometimes literally
what is BSF?
MrMarckeedee Bright Sun Films
This honestly makes me sad. My great grandpa died in this hospital. There’s so many people who died in this hospital.
I always feel sad every time I pass this building. There’s the cemetery for this hospital’s tuberculosis patients near city park and it always gives me chills.
Micro apartments and retail space. Also they could put in a medical museum and make it a historic site.
I like that.
You know how many fucking people died there.
Apartments here gonna be haunted af
@@peepeepoopoo100 my city has a University on a old hospital
Or how about another fucking charity hospital
Greed and corruption brought down charity hospital not hurricane Katrina 🙁
my thoughts exactly.
I just find it weird that they didn't have money to renovate and reopen charity hopsital yet had enough money to open a "state of the art medical facility"
@@compunerd Nothing weird. Seems like LSU and Louisiana just used it as leverage to get the feds to pay for the new hospital they wanted. Instead of re-opening the current hospital for pennies on the dollar, they closed it down to more or less committed FEMA fraud. Not sure how this is any more ethical than getting the insurance adjuster to declare your car totaled after a fender bender.
@@JonSmith-hk1bq You're right. Although I LOVE my state (Go LaTech and Grambling), the officials running it, are incompetent and very greedy. Bienvenue en Louisiane
Actually they had dirt on most of the officals and blackmailed them to not reopening which is a really sad thing
This one makes me so sad. Apart from the damage during Katrina, it's sad that such a hospital was left to wither consider what good it served its people.
This makes me so sad. I lived in New Orleans and left in 2004 the year before Katrina. Charity Hospital was the literally the #1 hospital if you wanted to go into Emergency Medicine. They were the "Harvard" of EM programs.
That hospital saved my uncle's life when other hospitals gave up, just the year before Katrina hit.
My friend had her baby there in the early 80s . It might have been a charity hospital but back then it was one of the best hospitals for trauma
wow. i want to say this is probably the saddest abandoned episode yet. it is a very gorgeous building and the whole Katrina thing just always makes me sad.
I took my high school band to New Orleans a few times in the years before Katrina. One of our stops was always at this hospital. The school that we came from was in a very wealthy suburb in the Milwaukee Wisconsin area and my students were always so deeply impacted by the staff from patients that they met. Pre-Katrina you could already see it the heroes that worked there and the patients that were so greatly blessed by the selfless medical workers. Not only doctors and nurses but staff that help with moving equipment and setting up our concerts. A very deserving tribute to a great medical center.
Most of my family worked at Charity at various points in their lives. They were all pretty devastated to see all of this happen on top of the damage to our beloved city.
A beautiful video Jake!!! Breath was taken away, I can't believe those doctors and nurses stayed to take care of patients. They truly are special.
It's incredible isn't it? Thanks!
Big Charity was and still is the heart of this city! Everyday someone mentions this iconic entity in one way or another. We love you, Charity🖤
Great video. Both of my grandparents worked their residency at Charity Hospital in the 1940s. It is a shame the building is outdated for use as a hospital but too expensive to tear down. Hopefully a mixed use development will utilize this space.
Holy crap, it just dawned on me at the end of the video just how much smoother the narration and editing was compared to the videos you were making way back when when I first began watching your channel. Bravo.
My daughter who's a sophomore now was just over a year old .. I saw Bob Breck say it's bad and I left town about 6hrs before the gridlock . .. I was in Meraux today and it's where the worst was... I'll never forget this ...
“New Or-leens” 😬😬😬
But seriously, another great video, Jake. Honestly, I remember following the Katrina story when it was happening. But I never learned about the sad demise of this long running charity hospital.
Thanks so much Jake. I’ve been looking forward to this. Thanks for being delicate when discussing “Katrina”.
Bless the people who stayed behind to try and help these patients.
I recently went on a ghost & spirits tour in New Orleans and our guide (a nola native and was born in Charity hospital) told us that they are planning on building some sort of real estate. Like apartments or condos, etc. Its sad because when we saw it, it looked awesome and so much history in there. It is kinda creepy to look at it at night because random lights in the hospital turn on every night and supposedly theres no light in there.
5 days of no resource and cutoff is already a nightmare for hospital, but managed to keep casualties at 2 is whole new level of dedication
Something about abandoned hospitals in particular makes me uneasy.
I look at this building everyday from my 7th period class, compared from the rest of downtown, Charity is massive and there it lay in the middle of the CBD covered in ivy
Remember there was a show in the ‘90’s maybe...a reality hospital show. Followed staff & patients. Loved that show.
Trauma: Life in the ER?
God bless all the people who helped heal folks over the two centuries Charity Hospital was open. And God bless everyone who hunkered down and then evacuated that building in 2005. Truly a tragic event.
I thought you made a mistake when you said the hospital was open for about 3 centuries. I figured you meant 3 decades, but then you said it opened it 1736. Yep, that is almost 300 years. LOL!
Same
Amazing channel! Keep up the great work in this series guys 😁
Well Jake you've done it again, you are definitely one of, if not the best documentary RUclipsr on RUclips. Thank you for all you do.
State, local, community, private etc... leaders should make repairing, restoring and getting this hospital up and running a major priority. The local community NEEDS this hospital because of all the life saving work it has done over many decades.
You write the absolute best content for RUclips, So glad I discovered your channel a couple of years ago. Keep doing what you do!
Thank you so much Scott, I really appreciate that.
To all the people who gave their time to work there u are saints... hope LSU truly provides charity healthcare at the new facility
Hats off to the doctors, nurses and just regular civilians who stayed to help during Katrina.
My grandmother was training in that hospital when part of it was being built
Something that both Six Flags New Orleans and Charity Hospital have in common. They were both lost to Hurricane Katrina,Both flooded,both had power knocked out,both were in the New Orleans area and today are Abandoned.
My favorite part of Friday nights is a when I get to watch a new BSF video. 😍
I'm sad to see Charty Hospital 🏥go down
I was Born in Charity in 1981 thanks for sharing 😐
It’s really crazy how it looks from the outside. When you watch something like the walking dead and see buildings photoshopped to look abandoned and run down I always thought it looked kind of fake but they actually look exactly like that. I’m surprised that everything gets so dark and discolored on the outside in a relatively short period of time. I never really see people washing or painting these big buildings but they must be doing something to keep them from looking like this.
Jake, you documented the hell out of that video! It was like . . . YOU were THERE!
BSF, you go hard in urban exploration: history, details, everything. PEACE
I honestly thought that the pic in the thumbnail was a Soviet apartment complex
Its not too far in construction concept, but very ideologically different
I lived 3 hours away from New Orleans for the past 16 years, visiting many times, and still never heard of Charity Hospital or its abandoned state -- thanks for posting this video. It's a touching story and a beautiful building.
watching this video then watching some of the older ones. I appreciate how far you've come.
I'm from the Piney Woods of east Texas and my wife (and her family) is from New Orleans. I've always heard and said "Naw'lins". Always sounds weird to hear "New Or-lens".
I am consistantly amazed by the quality of your videos, well done.
So sad to see this video, both of my younger brothers were born here in the 70’s. Had it not been for this hospital, many people that I know would have not been able to get treatment. NO ONE was ever denied! I can close my eyes and still picture what it once looked like prior to Katrina.
Thank you for sharing this footage.
Maybe they should open it again. You know, for the occasion.