The second-oldest hospital in the United States,
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Charity Hospital in New Orleans is a public hospital that was founded on May 10,
1736, in a house on the corner of Chartres and Bienville Streets.
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The legacy of Jean Louis, a French shipbuilder and sailor who died in New Orleans
in 1735 and bequeathed his estate to build a hospital that would serve the city’s
indigent population, Charity was originally named the Hospital of Saint John or L’Hôpital des Pauvres de la Charité - “Hospital of the Poor.” In 1743, a new building was constructed to house Charity
Hospital, which was nearly destroyed by a hurricane in 1778. A third Charity Hospital
had been built by 1785, only to be razed by fire in 1809. In fact, the concrete behemoth
that sprawls on Tulane Avenue today, the iconic symbol of New Orleans’ public healthcare
system, is the sixth incarnation of Jean Louis’ philanthropic bequest. Opened in 1939,
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the vast and seemingly indestructible building was finally felled in the summer of
2005 by the effects of Hurricane Katrina.Available at: http://www.lsuhospitals.org
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The State of Louisiana Communities That Care Youth Survey. Available at: http://dev2.dhh.state.la.us/OADA/community-care/page1.htm
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Publication history
Accepted:
May 21,
2008
Received:
May 15,
2008
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© 2008 Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
