@@themeekdontwantit You should look into the way the government handled Katrina and the people of Louisiana as a whole if you think that’s bad. The hurricane itself wasn’t the deadly part, it was the US government and how they handled things that killed all those people.
Yepp. It was days before the president even acknowledged that we were in a crisis situation and sent water then days more before help came for us. It was a complete nightmare, I'm tearing up just writing this😢. 19 years later and seems like it was last year
That LSU guy was disgusting. "The term "charity" was offensive to people." All the while smirking with a devious look on his face. Profit over care is what is killing the medical profession. We are allowing suits to run medical care and not nurses and doctors. That is one of the biggest issues. All of the doctors and nurses interviewed showed compassion and genuine caring. The business people all talked about money. This is shameful at best and downright immoral at worst.
It seems to me, who doesn’t know much, that the governor wanted people to forget about Charity Hospital very fast. The atrocities of abandoning those patients was to be erased from everyone except the people that were in the building and lost to history. Thankful for documentaries like this making sure people never forget.
When New Orleans suffered from Hurricane Katrina I was a 911 dispatcher in Illinois just outside of Chicago, next to O’Hare Airport. Every week for about two months a neighboring dispatch center would call advising how many firefighters we were required to send for recovery efforts to New Orleans. I knew of Charity Hospital, but not the sad plans for its future back in 2005. All of my coworkers felt the same as I about the devastation in New Orleans, and the surrounding states. We took up a collection for one coworker’s church. I had family in Baton Rouge. The entire situation seemed completely surreal. Upon watching this video my heart goes out to the true victims of New Orleans, the citizens. You certainly deserved better than underhanded, backstabbing, politically motivated, and deadly decision making that cost you your houses, livelihoods, jobs, history, and in many cases your lives out of pure greed. If you look at the big picture they spent all of that money to build a facility that could easily suffer the same fate as Charity Hospital one day. What’s the big attraction to New Orleans supposed to be? Underhanded politics to gain a hospital facility that won’t treat all of the residents who rebuilt as they were instructed to make Nola strong again? If I’m a doctor looking for something with integrity, LSU isn’t going to be anywhere in my mind / heart after what they did to its own people! I’m so sorry that the rest of America wasn’t aware of the deceitful BS that you were made to endure. This is politics at its worst. Regardless of political party, never trust a politician. Your best interests never align with their financial goals. 😢😤🤯🤬
😭😪I’m a Katrina survivor & It’s 5:07am and Sept. 3, 2024 & I didn’t think I would wake up to this & now I’m crying my eyes out bcuz I still deal with thoughts & memories from Katrina. Oh Lawd it’s still painful for me. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
We went to Charity Hospital for research for a fiction story. No story can adequately just how MASSIVE this hospital truly is. I was humbled and enraged. I wept.
This video brings me to tears. I was born in Charity Hospital and I died in Charity Hospital if it wasn’t for charity Hospital, I wouldn’t be here. I was in a coma for seven days woke up in ICU I was 17 God wasn’t ready to call me home yet and I remember Katrina too it was one of the worst days of my life we were treated like 💩
Reminds me of General Hospital in Los Angeles. I was blessed to work there and to care for what I call the working poor. It was my privilege to treat those patients like they were precious. I wish I could have worked at this hospital. I can remember that I wanted desperately to go there and volunteer but I had to pay the rent, I did not have the luxury of doing so.
This documentary was so touching. While I have no ‘real life’ connection to Charity Hospital, while I was growing up Trauma Life in the ER was one of my favorite shows. One of the hospitals featured on that show was Charity. Now as an adult, I work in healthcare and worked all through COVID at a local community hospital. How the people on in this documentary described their experience through Katrina really resonated with me. I also didn’t learned till recently that Charity never reopened after Katrina. That was heartbreaking because between watching the staff in trauma life in the ER and in this documentary, they were so dedicated to this hospital as was the public. It’s horrible to see what LSU and the state did. They have blood on their hands for leaving the people without reasonable means to healthcare. Justice for Charity and all those touched by such an amazing establishment.
as someone that was born in 2004 and was told the stories of Katrina. it’s extremely gut wrenching to know our government is repeating the same mistakes now.
I'm so sorry for your losses back then 😢❤I truly am. I watched the whole thing for weeks and I'm from California and never saw anything like it. I hope you are doing well today ❤
So so sad! Money over individuals! Sending much much love to all the real people out there. May all the beautiful people in this story and others heal from this travesty!!! ♥️ New Orleans ♥️
@ccarter112657 my heart hurts as I watch. God is real. I hate that you all were a worlds example of wicked practice... but now we know. Thank you for your story, I'm so happy that you are STILL here !
Seeing John Kennedy’s seemingly genuine care for this hospital and people of NOLA is honestly surprising, bc it’s not really what you see of him otherwise when acting as Senator. I knew Charity sustained damage and was closed but I didn’t realize it had been cleaned up and was able to function again! Knowing how it was kept from public access for the ppl of Louisiana for over ten years is enraging.
I can’t believe that so many doctors and nurses were told and threatened to not say or do anything during this tragedy. How can you tell nurses and doctors whose job is to help people and had stayed with those patients for days in horrible conditions to not do anything. Purposely trashing the hospital and equipment that could be used to save people is just monstrous
@55:00 he only cares for the profit of those who can afford private care. Seems he does not care for those who cannot afford to pay for health care. That is just wrong
People who lived in the area were ‘inconvenienced’ . Understatement much? They begged these people to come ‘home’, rebuild … we’ll be better than ever. Then just bulldoze these restored homes? I would love to know how much money these people received. I can’t imagine it would ever be enough for people to be ok with having their homes taken away. Eminent domain?
@@aliciabourn2753 right?! Like you’re inconvenienced that I’m stealing and tearing down your 125 year old house your grandfather built but don’t worry bc your neighbors who’s house we didn’t steal will understand that this is for the better. 🙄😡
How many people did "L_U" hire to trash the place just days after the hard dedicated work of all those awesome volunteers had accomplished, with the highly anticipated hope of being able to open as soon as possible? If only just to function temporarily until the major restoration could be complete! Only the Good Lord above knows all that took place and rest assured all you good people of this wonderful state of Louisiana and every volunteer that worked so hard to bring life back to a hospital that practically all residents of this state some way or another has a story about, ALL will receive their JUST REWARD! WHETHER FOR THE GOOD OR THE BAD THAT TOOK PLACE!!!
I was in a hospital bed in Ohio giving birth to my oldest child sobbing watching NOLA falling to its knees..but seeing videos like these lets me know that these are some of the strongest people❤
my mom was doing the exact same thing as you but in Vancouver BC while she was in labour with me. your oldest and i are probably born within days of each other. ❤️🩹
I couldnt believe the part where the Tulane staff just got into that helicopter and left patients behind......... amazing story of what they all did for each other and their patients
Every time I have been at Tulane dealing with the super specific neurosurgical care i needed to come in from the BR metro for....I would stand in the parking garage across the street and I could seriously hear the voices of those who have gone now who are still very much sad and feeling that melancholy,
Oh the irony. They want the new hospital to draw in all this new income and business but tear down the parts of New Orleans that people come there to see. You can go to any other big city to get big city accommodations.
Citizens NEED to have the ability (as a whole), to go above their local corrupt government and get things done while having local government removed, fired and criminally charged for their corrupt actions against tax paying citizens and residents. New Orleans state government has ALWAYS been known to be one of the most corrupt and it's beyond time that it STOPS, with criminal charges held against those who have abused their power.
💔😭 🤧😢😢😢 Still till this day and watching this It brought me way back. This was the worst time for my family. Back to school time and my mom's 68th Birthday. With God and Prayers these Patients, Mrs. T 🙏🏼 and the Song 💕, the Docs, Nurses, 1st Responders, and The Love everyone had for each other came thru and all the Angels who helped and saved people I Thank you today yesterday and in the Future. God Bless them all 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Charity was the healing place. I know on many occasions 💕💕💕💕💕 So So Sorry it never came back 💔
My grandmother went to the nursing program at Charity. She went on to be the Director of Nursing at the Hospital in Natchez for quite some time as well as others in the central north Louisiana area. I miss her dearly.
We were in East Texas, and so all we got was a lot of rain and wind, but it definitely did feel different than any other storm ever! Of course we had so many people flooding up here to get away from the storm. Even to this day in 2024 my heart still gets extremely heavy, when I think about Katrina. And for some reason that’s quite often.
A great eye-opening video about how the suits and ties that rule everything in this world still sadly win in the end. It's all about politics, money, and clout, nothing else!! It's for sure not at all about the patients or the employees that worked so hard when Katrina hit. Nor is it about those that needed the care that Charity gave them! I applaud those that stayed with their patients till the end and are still caring for patients today! You can for sure tell the ones that talked on this video that thought it was all about them and the egos they needed to feed with a new hospital, those were the suits and ties, not the common man! Those people will be the ones judged by a much higher power someday! I also hate it for those that lost their beloved homes just to build this new hospital and especially those that lost their lives during Katrina! So many things done wrong when that hurricane came on land!
I can’t imagine being the original merchant that had the dream for Charity finding out what it is now..or the Daughters of Charity nuns that gave their entire lives serving those patients!! So sad..😢
I just watched 5 days in memorial hospital . That took place after hurricane Katrina. It was beyond upsetting.. I don't understand what took so long for aid ??
When that Nurse said at 1:00:44-1:00:51 It’s here but it’s an empty house. Mother is still there but her children aren’t…… wheewwww I felt that 😢😢😢 and the fact people are still hurting many many years after we live in a cruel and wicked world 💔💔💔
I live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, also known as the landmass we were completely wiped out the entire Gulf Coast, the entire bottom of the state of Mississippi, but if you visited today you would only know if u we’re here before. we had to go to New Orleans for my son surgery last year. It still looks like a third world country. there’s too many leaders in that city that is taking from the cookie jar and not putting in the baking. Something is very wrong there after two decades there’s no improvement.
My favorite part was when all the big wigs were saying how the old hospital helped people who couldn't pay or didn't have insurance, but the new hospital will be much more esthetically pleasing. 🙄🙄🙄 How ridiculous. Shame on them.
Over 18 years ago and i am still crying when i watchvideos! I was lycky to leave but my heart is breaking for all the people that stayed and died! It took me iver a decade to be able to watch a video about the disaster!
I am all the way on the other side of the world in Australia with no ties to New Orleans or The Charity Hospital aside from a long time ongoing from afar fascination with all things New Orleans and Katrina (I do hope to visit one day) and THIS HAS ME INFURIATED and crying for all those involved and affected by these assholes in suits that are so disconnected from the people.
I think we all know what happened there money was involved and the government how can they helicopter tulain out but not charity it shouldn't matter the government is responsible in that situation.
Oh God no telling....back home at my community hospital the CEO received a $6,000,000 bonus but idk what his annual salary is....50,000 people in my town.
This is so sad. But I honestly wonder how the hospital would have help up during COVID. It sounds like the state of Louisiana had their eye on Charity for a while and were trying to find a reason to shut the place down. Whether it was Hurricane Katrina, COVID, or something else, they would have ensured Charity’s doors would be closed.
I remember Charity. And don’t get it twisted, it’s still standing strong. Charity trains the best nurses. Don’t @me. Now we have UMC! A leaky new hospital 😊
I hope people donate to this hospital ! Am from Liverpool England, I don’t have to worry about using any hospital in any city, r taxes pay for it🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
That would be awesome but i promise the money wouldn't go to the hospital. This is New Orleans aka the most corrupt City in America. Our lives do not matter here, we're just numbers... 🧡
Im a US citizen living in a country with socialized medicine. Its wonderful not having to choose between medicine and food. The healthcare provided is superior to anything Ive received in the US
22 people in my life who have died because they couldn't afford the medical care they needed to survive, all us citizens. Now myself and about 10 others I know are all in situations where if anything happened and we had to have medical care to save our lives, we wouldn't be able to afford it. It's a horrible vicious vile sick country
It’s upsetting that they allowed people to die and suffer for this “hospital”. Hospitals are supposed to save others not hurt them. Greed really surrounds our government to this day. Knowing they could have opened it until this new project was finished is sad.
That's how America has been since its Inception and always will be. We are a sick, evil, corrupt country. That's how we began and that's how we will all die
Thank you that information. In a natural disaster is to survive and look for alternative solutions. When nature's fury comes, no one can stop it, seek shelter.
Let me simplify this. Somebody wanted money. So they sold out the hospital. And, if this new hospital was ‘so great and innovative and world class’, why wasn’t my partner life flighted there on the verge of death? Oh wait! Because SLC is far better than what could be provided. Sometimes money isn’t everything.
This made me livid - and I'm not even American (but I do have family in Louisiana). There was one single reason that hospital didn't re-open: ego. The CEO (in his expensive suit, in that huge office on the gazillionth floor) & other suits in a pis**ng contest with the people. I can't imagine how much money they wasted, setting up the various temporary facilities... They should have simply used the old one whilst raising funds & planning for the new one 😔
The curse of money is so disgusting. The fact all of these people came together to save that facility and they couldn’t even use it to provide care that was absolutely necessary during a natural disaster. That is absolutely unacceptable and an invasion of basic human/patient rights. Those victims blood are on those execs hands. I hope they struggle to sleep at night.
I will never forget this I’m prepared if this happens in my town get prepared ppl have enough can food for 2 months flashlights and candles blankets and lighters first aid kits water please
I was born that Charity hospital June 9 1984. My life was saved countless times thanks to that hospital. My mother and sister made it through birthdays to that hospital. The left on the side of the road to die from a seizure to Dr scoop me up and brought me straight to charity set timer charities mental ward charity was the staple of my life the government of Louisiana New Orleans has Rob the citizens it show how much we respect art history. New Orleans has failed us as long as I live in Louisian I will never go to the new facility I'd rather take my last breath on the street corner before I have to walk into that snooty building. I went there once and the guards are rude and disrespectful.
21:01 That's a distinguishable difference between today's culture and that of just 20 years ago. To have an employee SO dedicated that they would stay at work because others depended on them is behavior that was pushed into extinction after the Government pissed on that dedication and said it was worthless! I wasn't plugged into my state in 05 but this documentary has been revealing and rewarding. Thank you to EVERY HERO, seen and unseen, who went through that turmoil without recognition or reimbursement. I'm terribly sorry your efforts were in vain.
They should at least let the community clean it up room by room when I visited New Orleans homeless people under bridges were horrible at least they would have a roof
The hospital is inhabited by drug users, homeless people & also now houses a stolen bike chop-shop deep within. It’s full of graffiti, patient records, & is an absolute disaster area. There are some good videos from urban explorers from inside Charity as it stands today. The biggest mistake made was putting a charitable entity into the hands of a for profit institution.
How can you just tear people house down y’all was better off tearing down the old charity and put it in that place, making people leave there homes they stayed in all there lives, crazy & crooked
So instead of using what they can at the hospital after being cleaned up, the city has the hospital boarded up and left the health care workers to work with patients on the streets 😭
Sickening reminds me of the walking dead the beginning of the series. This was def all planned and they knew to not open because it was based on charity. Greedy as humans. 😤
Hey don’t forget the poor prisoners that were just left locked up in their cells many drowned & the media say nothing about it
Did that happen?!
OMG! What a monstrous thing to do?! Leaving them like that, and no-one felt inclined to bring attention to that?!
BIG facts.
@@themeekdontwantit us new orleans natives have been telling everyone for years but no one would really care
@@themeekdontwantit You should look into the way the government handled Katrina and the people of Louisiana as a whole if you think that’s bad. The hurricane itself wasn’t the deadly part, it was the US government and how they handled things that killed all those people.
Yepp. It was days before the president even acknowledged that we were in a crisis situation and sent water then days more before help came for us. It was a complete nightmare, I'm tearing up just writing this😢. 19 years later and seems like it was last year
That LSU guy was disgusting. "The term "charity" was offensive to people." All the while smirking with a devious look on his face. Profit over care is what is killing the medical profession. We are allowing suits to run medical care and not nurses and doctors. That is one of the biggest issues. All of the doctors and nurses interviewed showed compassion and genuine caring. The business people all talked about money. This is shameful at best and downright immoral at worst.
It seems to me, who doesn’t know much, that the governor wanted people to forget about Charity Hospital very fast. The atrocities of abandoning those patients was to be erased from everyone except the people that were in the building and lost to history. Thankful for documentaries like this making sure people never forget.
When New Orleans suffered from Hurricane Katrina I was a 911 dispatcher in Illinois just outside of Chicago, next to O’Hare Airport. Every week for about two months a neighboring dispatch center would call advising how many firefighters we were required to send for recovery efforts to New Orleans. I knew of Charity Hospital, but not the sad plans for its future back in 2005.
All of my coworkers felt the same as I about the devastation in New Orleans, and the surrounding states. We took up a collection for one coworker’s church. I had family in Baton Rouge. The entire situation seemed completely surreal.
Upon watching this video my heart goes out to the true victims of New Orleans, the citizens. You certainly deserved better than underhanded, backstabbing, politically motivated, and deadly decision making that cost you your houses, livelihoods, jobs, history, and in many cases your lives out of pure greed.
If you look at the big picture they spent all of that money to build a facility that could easily suffer the same fate as Charity Hospital one day. What’s the big attraction to New Orleans supposed to be? Underhanded politics to gain a hospital facility that won’t treat all of the residents who rebuilt as they were instructed to make Nola strong again? If I’m a doctor looking for something with integrity, LSU isn’t going to be anywhere in my mind / heart after what they did to its own people!
I’m so sorry that the rest of America wasn’t aware of the deceitful BS that you were made to endure. This is politics at its worst. Regardless of political party, never trust a politician. Your best interests never align with their financial goals.
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😭😪I’m a Katrina survivor & It’s 5:07am and Sept. 3, 2024 & I didn’t think I would wake up to this & now I’m crying my eyes out bcuz I still deal with thoughts & memories from Katrina. Oh Lawd it’s still painful for me. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
vvskortni - 🫂❤️
sending you so much love. i’m so sorry you and your family went through that
@@dadaguiar Thank You 💙💙
@@vvskortni I’m so sorry.
Sending you so much love & I'm happy you're here today❤❤
my jaw is literally on the floor. this is so dystopian.
We went to Charity Hospital for research for a fiction story. No story can adequately just how MASSIVE this hospital truly is. I was humbled and enraged. I wept.
I’m so angry watching this !!! 😡these poor people/ patients won’t be treated the same way they were treated at old charity 😢
Whether your
Charity hospital notoriously had one of the best emergency services in the country..
As a Hurricane Katrina survivor, this has made me tear up and relive the events and experience we have all endured. 😢
God be with you all. What a wicked, !System! We live in.
This video brings me to tears. I was born in Charity Hospital and I died in Charity Hospital if it wasn’t for charity Hospital, I wouldn’t be here. I was in a coma for seven days woke up in ICU I was 17 God wasn’t ready to call me home yet and I remember Katrina too it was one of the worst days of my life we were treated like 💩
@shentellbaby9022 I'm so sorry you went through that... God kept you here and I'm thankful you're still with us. I hope you're doing great now ❤️
@@gracie.s90 Thank you so much may God bless you 🙏 I’m doing fine as well. Grateful to be here.❤️❤️❤️
Reminds me of General Hospital in Los Angeles. I was blessed to work there and to care for what I call the working poor. It was my privilege to treat those patients like they were precious. I wish I could have worked at this hospital. I can remember that I wanted desperately to go there and volunteer but I had to pay the rent, I did not have the luxury of doing so.
This documentary was so touching. While I have no ‘real life’ connection to Charity Hospital, while I was growing up Trauma Life in the ER was one of my favorite shows. One of the hospitals featured on that show was Charity. Now as an adult, I work in healthcare and worked all through COVID at a local community hospital. How the people on in this documentary described their experience through Katrina really resonated with me. I also didn’t learned till recently that Charity never reopened after Katrina. That was heartbreaking because between watching the staff in trauma life in the ER and in this documentary, they were so dedicated to this hospital as was the public. It’s horrible to see what LSU and the state did. They have blood on their hands for leaving the people without reasonable means to healthcare. Justice for Charity and all those touched by such an amazing establishment.
as someone that was born in 2004 and was told the stories of Katrina. it’s extremely gut wrenching to know our government is repeating the same mistakes now.
@@Bella-boo420 they did the same with hurricane Maria in puerto rico
The government can't be assumed to have citizens' interests at heart. This story is clear evidence of that.
Sad, sad story of what could have been. God bless all those who fought for Charity.
The government is a business & it will never have the citizens' best interests at heart.
You think the private healthcare system has citizens’ best interest at heart? They’re the reason Charity existed in the first place.
Im a Katrina survivor it was horrible in new Orleans back then i lost everything i owned
I'm so sorry for your losses back then 😢❤I truly am. I watched the whole thing for weeks and I'm from California and never saw anything like it. I hope you are doing well today ❤
@divinespiritstacosgirlmessages 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾So Glad u made it
So so sad! Money over individuals! Sending much much love to all the real people out there. May all the beautiful people in this story and others heal from this travesty!!!
♥️ New Orleans ♥️
I was born at charity hospital on august 8th 1984 on Wednesday night at 8:59 pm 40 years ago it hurts my heart that they didn’t open it back up 😢😢😢😢
@@ccarter112657 🙏🏿
@@OnlyBeeMee 🙏🏾❤️
@ccarter112657 my heart hurts as I watch. God is real. I hate that you all were a worlds example of wicked practice... but now we know. Thank you for your story, I'm so happy that you are STILL here !
Seeing John Kennedy’s seemingly genuine care for this hospital and people of NOLA is honestly surprising, bc it’s not really what you see of him otherwise when acting as Senator.
I knew Charity sustained damage and was closed but I didn’t realize it had been cleaned up and was able to function again! Knowing how it was kept from public access for the ppl of Louisiana for over ten years is enraging.
I can’t believe that so many doctors and nurses were told and threatened to not say or do anything during this tragedy. How can you tell nurses and doctors whose job is to help people and had stayed with those patients for days in horrible conditions to not do anything. Purposely trashing the hospital and equipment that could be used to save people is just monstrous
These workers deserve the highest of medals for their work they performed. What a tragedy….
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@@OnlyBeeMee you’re a survivor from the storm it appears yes? Sending huge hugs to u hun 🫂
@@goddesssummer no assumption. Im in kentucky. But it makes my heart heavy to see this.
@55:00 he only cares for the profit of those who can afford private care. Seems he does not care for those who cannot afford to pay for health care. That is just wrong
That guy is a coward, bootlicker, and failure at his position all for greed.
People who lived in the area were ‘inconvenienced’ . Understatement much?
They begged these people to come ‘home’, rebuild … we’ll be better than ever. Then just bulldoze these restored homes? I would love to know how much money these people received. I can’t imagine it would ever be enough for people to be ok with having their homes taken away. Eminent domain?
@@aliciabourn2753 right?! Like you’re inconvenienced that I’m stealing and tearing down your 125 year old house your grandfather built but don’t worry bc your neighbors who’s house we didn’t steal will understand that this is for the better. 🙄😡
The system is an abomination in America . So sorry for you
louisakenneday4509 - I'm an American and I agree with you 🎯
" I can't talk about that. I'm trying to see how I can give you an answer without going into that." His inability to talk about it is that answer.
How many people did "L_U" hire to trash the place just days after the hard dedicated work of all those awesome volunteers had accomplished, with the highly anticipated hope of being able to open as soon as possible? If only just to function temporarily until the major restoration could be complete! Only the Good Lord above knows all that took place and rest assured all you good people of this wonderful state of Louisiana and every volunteer that worked so hard to bring life back to a hospital that practically all residents of this state some way or another has a story about, ALL will receive their JUST REWARD! WHETHER FOR THE GOOD OR THE BAD THAT TOOK PLACE!!!
I was in a hospital bed in Ohio giving birth to my oldest child sobbing watching NOLA falling to its knees..but seeing videos like these lets me know that these are some of the strongest people❤
@@jessicapabstconrad I sobbed for days uncontrollable tears
my mom was doing the exact same thing as you but in Vancouver BC while she was in labour with me. your oldest and i are probably born within days of each other. ❤️🩹
I couldnt believe the part where the Tulane staff just got into that helicopter and left patients behind......... amazing story of what they all did for each other and their patients
Every time I have been at Tulane dealing with the super specific neurosurgical care i needed to come in from the BR metro for....I would stand in the parking garage across the street and I could seriously hear the voices of those who have gone now who are still very much sad and feeling that melancholy,
That was the first and last time those suits ever held a shovel. Disgusting what they did.
Oh the irony. They want the new hospital to draw in all this new income and business but tear down the parts of New Orleans that people come there to see. You can go to any other big city to get big city accommodations.
as an icu nurse i cannot imagine trying to keep those patients alive without power… terrifying
Citizens NEED to have the ability (as a whole), to go above their local corrupt government and get things done while having local government removed, fired and criminally charged for their corrupt actions against tax paying citizens and residents. New Orleans state government has ALWAYS been known to be one of the most corrupt and it's beyond time that it STOPS, with criminal charges held against those who have abused their power.
💔😭 🤧😢😢😢 Still till this day and watching this It brought me way back. This was the worst time for my family. Back to school time and my mom's 68th Birthday. With God and Prayers these Patients, Mrs. T 🙏🏼 and the Song 💕, the Docs, Nurses, 1st Responders, and The Love everyone had for each other came thru and all the Angels who helped and saved people I Thank you today yesterday and in the Future. God Bless them all 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 Charity was the healing place. I know on many occasions 💕💕💕💕💕 So So Sorry it never came back 💔
My grandmother went to the nursing program at Charity. She went on to be the Director of Nursing at the Hospital in Natchez for quite some time as well as others in the central north Louisiana area. I miss her dearly.
We were in East Texas, and so all we got was a lot of rain and wind, but it definitely did feel different than any other storm ever! Of course we had so many people flooding up here to get away from the storm. Even to this day in 2024 my heart still gets extremely heavy, when I think about Katrina. And for some reason that’s quite often.
I'm from Longview, Texas, and this absolutely broke my heart into pieces. I cried uncontrollably. For days
Having someone call people being forcibly kicked out of their homes an ‘inconvenience’ is truly heartless.
So people actually went in the Charity hospital, plugged up drains, distroyed equipment,....omg i have no words. 😢😢
Guarantee it was people from LSU
Thank you for sharing-my grandmother was born in charity hospital in 1931.
This should have been the end to America being able to declare it being a first world country. We've never been a first world country again
That is messed up. They denied help to those who need it, and those who want to help
Yes it's very sad 😭😢😭😢🤧
The fact you have a NG from out of state seeing the red flags and called it out is insane!!
A great eye-opening video about how the suits and ties that rule everything in this world still sadly win in the end. It's all about politics, money, and clout, nothing else!! It's for sure not at all about the patients or the employees that worked so hard when Katrina hit. Nor is it about those that needed the care that Charity gave them! I applaud those that stayed with their patients till the end and are still caring for patients today!
You can for sure tell the ones that talked on this video that thought it was all about them and the egos they needed to feed with a new hospital, those were the suits and ties, not the common man!
Those people will be the ones judged by a much higher power someday!
I also hate it for those that lost their beloved homes just to build this new hospital and especially those that lost their lives during Katrina! So many things done wrong when that hurricane came on land!
Very eye opening and touching documentary
Sums up the situation in the usa.
I can’t imagine being the original merchant that had the dream for Charity finding out what it is now..or the Daughters of Charity nuns that gave their entire lives serving those patients!! So sad..😢
I just watched 5 days in memorial hospital . That took place after hurricane Katrina. It was beyond upsetting.. I don't understand what took so long for aid ??
That guy behind the desk really pisses me off
I cant comprehend this happening in the USA. It's a very sad thing to watch and know about 😢
How nobody knows about this...
This is so traumatizing 😢 I couldn't imagine. Thank you to the doctors and nurses who tried their best.
Someone needs to do a movie or docuseries on the origins of that hospital and what happened during Katrina
This is almost like a movie documenting what happened during katrina…did we not watch the video like?
Titled; Cajun Corruption
When that Nurse said at 1:00:44-1:00:51 It’s here but it’s an empty house. Mother is still there but her children aren’t…… wheewwww I felt that 😢😢😢 and the fact people are still hurting many many years after we live in a cruel and wicked world 💔💔💔
I live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, also known as the landmass we were completely wiped out the entire Gulf Coast, the entire bottom of the state of Mississippi, but if you visited today you would only know if u we’re here before. we had to go to New Orleans for my son surgery last year. It still looks like a third world country. there’s too many leaders in that city that is taking from the cookie jar and not putting in the baking. Something is very wrong there after two decades there’s no improvement.
Just when you thought it was horrible, it got worse. Well, at least Kathleen Blanco can’t do more harm. RIP
My favorite part was when all the big wigs were saying how the old hospital helped people who couldn't pay or didn't have insurance, but the new hospital will be much more esthetically pleasing. 🙄🙄🙄
How ridiculous. Shame on them.
This just made me mad even though I don't live there.
That’s so messed up
Over 18 years ago and i am still crying when i watchvideos! I was lycky to leave but my heart is breaking for all the people that stayed and died! It took me iver a decade to be able to watch a video about the disaster!
They could've used that extra money to renovate the old hospital.
I am all the way on the other side of the world in Australia with no ties to New Orleans or The Charity Hospital aside from a long time ongoing from afar fascination with all things New Orleans and Katrina (I do hope to visit one day) and THIS HAS ME INFURIATED and crying for all those involved and affected by these assholes in suits that are so disconnected from the people.
I think we all know what happened there money was involved and the government how can they helicopter tulain out but not charity it shouldn't matter the government is responsible in that situation.
MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL!!! LEVEES JUST BROKE???? HUMM WONDER IF THERE WAS SOME MYSTERIOUS HELP WITH THAT!!!
Sweetheart that was in the lower 9th Ward they blew up the living. So that they can save the garden district😊
@@tabathalynn5563no…it wasnt
If people really knew what city development is like, you'd never advocate for it in your town. Follow the money.
The way the Louisiana government handled this was so so wrong.
How much is the University Hospital CEO’s salary and bonuses.
Oh God no telling....back home at my community hospital the CEO received a $6,000,000 bonus but idk what his annual salary is....50,000 people in my town.
Inconvenienced? You Stole their homes for less than value and then tore them down against their will. Call it what it was.
omg I remember that song "I need you"my choir in high school was taught that song!
watching this after i just got back to my house from evacuating for milton, hope everyone else made it out okay too!
This is so sad. But I honestly wonder how the hospital would have help up during COVID. It sounds like the state of Louisiana had their eye on Charity for a while and were trying to find a reason to shut the place down. Whether it was Hurricane Katrina, COVID, or something else, they would have ensured Charity’s doors would be closed.
I remember Charity. And don’t get it twisted, it’s still standing strong. Charity trains the best nurses. Don’t @me. Now we have UMC! A leaky new hospital 😊
I hope people donate to this hospital ! Am from Liverpool England, I don’t have to worry about using any hospital in any city, r taxes pay for it🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
That would be awesome but i promise the money wouldn't go to the hospital. This is New Orleans aka the most corrupt City in America. Our lives do not matter here, we're just numbers...
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Im a US citizen living in a country with socialized medicine. Its wonderful not having to choose between medicine and food. The healthcare provided is superior to anything Ive received in the US
22 people in my life who have died because they couldn't afford the medical care they needed to survive, all us citizens. Now myself and about 10 others I know are all in situations where if anything happened and we had to have medical care to save our lives, we wouldn't be able to afford it. It's a horrible vicious vile sick country
It was a disgrace that President Bush didn’t do more. So tragic. I know that we can’t depend on the government for anything
Thats democrats for ya
@@midnight_x_editsspecial aren’t ya?
It’s upsetting that they allowed people to die and suffer for this “hospital”. Hospitals are supposed to save others not hurt them. Greed really surrounds our government to this day. Knowing they could have opened it until this new project was finished is sad.
Profit over people Disgraceful
That's how America has been since its Inception and always will be. We are a sick, evil, corrupt country. That's how we began and that's how we will all die
My heart is broken
Thank you that information. In a natural disaster is to survive and look for alternative solutions. When nature's fury comes, no one can stop it, seek shelter.
Let me simplify this. Somebody wanted money. So they sold out the hospital.
And, if this new hospital was ‘so great and innovative and world class’, why wasn’t my partner life flighted there on the verge of death? Oh wait! Because SLC is far better than what could be provided.
Sometimes money isn’t everything.
This made me livid - and I'm not even American (but I do have family in Louisiana). There was one single reason that hospital didn't re-open: ego. The CEO (in his expensive suit, in that huge office on the gazillionth floor) & other suits in a pis**ng contest with the people. I can't imagine how much money they wasted, setting up the various temporary facilities... They should have simply used the old one whilst raising funds & planning for the new one 😔
The curse of money is so disgusting. The fact all of these people came together to save that facility and they couldn’t even use it to provide care that was absolutely necessary during a natural disaster. That is absolutely unacceptable and an invasion of basic human/patient rights. Those victims blood are on those execs hands. I hope they struggle to sleep at night.
How about all the censored stuff we are not allowed to say
Are there really dad's out there who care so much about their daughters that they'd go get her without being asked?
Yes there are SEVERAL of them my dad being one of em
@midnight_x_edits tell ur dad to adopt me. I know I'm all grown up n all but I still want a dad like that.
I will never forget this I’m prepared if this happens in my town get prepared ppl have enough can food for 2 months flashlights and candles blankets and lighters first aid kits water please
I was born that Charity hospital June 9 1984. My life was saved countless times thanks to that hospital. My mother and sister made it through birthdays to that hospital. The left on the side of the road to die from a seizure to Dr scoop me up and brought me straight to charity set timer charities mental ward charity was the staple of my life the government of Louisiana New Orleans has Rob the citizens it show how much we respect art history. New Orleans has failed us as long as I live in Louisian I will never go to the new facility I'd rather take my last breath on the street corner before I have to walk into that snooty building. I went there once and the guards are rude and disrespectful.
30:00 “if we rebuild, we may never get a new hospital” 😤
Total travesty! Shame upon those responsible.
21:01 That's a distinguishable difference between today's culture and that of just 20 years ago. To have an employee SO dedicated that they would stay at work because others depended on them is behavior that was pushed into extinction after the Government pissed on that dedication and said it was worthless! I wasn't plugged into my state in 05 but this documentary has been revealing and rewarding. Thank you to EVERY HERO, seen and unseen, who went through that turmoil without recognition or reimbursement. I'm terribly sorry your efforts were in vain.
Sickening. Truly disgusting
LSU and the Greed. This is how you go way left field from the person's who started the hospital. Money takes over and screw everyone else.
The chancellor guy’s segments make me angry. He’s like an old snake oil salesman.
They should at least let the community clean it up room by room when I visited New Orleans homeless people under bridges were horrible at least they would have a roof
The hospital is inhabited by drug users, homeless people & also now houses a stolen bike chop-shop deep within. It’s full of graffiti, patient records, & is an absolute disaster area. There are some good videos from urban explorers from inside Charity as it stands today.
The biggest mistake made was putting a charitable entity into the hands of a for profit institution.
How horrible, so so sad. Brings tears to my eyes and makes me so angry, the state and federal Government failed all of them.
They should all sue LSU
That group from Germany was a group of 40 volunteers!
Imagine the world if govt worked for and cared about citizens
How can you just tear people house down y’all was better off tearing down the old charity and put it in that place, making people leave there homes they stayed in all there lives, crazy & crooked
So instead of using what they can at the hospital after being cleaned up, the city has the hospital boarded up and left the health care workers to work with patients on the streets 😭
What if we put on a fund raising to buy it back.❤😂
3:41 absolutely ❤
There's definitely something that is being hid w/n Charity hospital.
Money thats what it is
Sickening reminds me of the walking dead the beginning of the series. This was def all planned and they knew to not open because it was based on charity. Greedy as humans. 😤
Greed !