Charity Hospital (New Orleans, Louisiana)

Charity Hospital (Closed)
Charity Hospital Building
Geography
Location	1532 Tulane Ave., New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Organization
Funding	Public hospital
Hospital type	General, Teaching Hospital
Affiliated university	Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine
Services
Beds	2,680
History
Founded	May 10, 1736
Closed	2005

Coordinates: 29°57′19″N 90°04′41″W / 29.955383°N 90.077957°W / 29.955383; -90.077957 Charity Hospital was one of two teaching hospitals which were part of the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (MCLNO), the other being University Hospital. Three weeks after the events of Hurricane Katrina, then Governor Kathleen Blanco said that Charity Hospital would not reopen as a functioning hospital. The Louisiana State University System, which owns the building, stated that it had no plans to reopen the hospital in its original location. It chose to incorporate Charity Hospital into the city's new medical center in the lower Mid-City neighborhood. The new hospital completed in August 2015 was named University Medical Center New Orleans.

Charity Hospital was one of several public hospitals around the state of Louisiana administered by the Louisiana State University System at the time of Hurricane Katrina. Charity Hospital and the nearby University Hospital were both teaching hospitals affiliated with the LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans (LSUHSC-NO). University Hospital, later called Interim LSU Hospital closed in 2015.