Hurricane Katrina: Heroes of Charity Hospital | History
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- Charity Hospital was one of the last hospitals to be evacuated after Hurricane Katrina hit. After five days without power or assistance, the staff of Charity took matters into their own hands. including orchestrating a risky roof evacuation. to care for their patients.
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My daughter was born there. I was a poor graduate student without medical insurance and Charity saved me and my daughter. I cannot believe it was gone forever.
I cant either im born there raised and went there till close it is to hard to think of a word but it was the best and people started dyeing that min and is still going because they are closed all i can say is it took part of our citys heart and population and continues to
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Charity was better than everyone else.
The fact that the public officials didn't give priority #1 to a hospital full of people, but actually forgot about them, is inexcusable.
agreed.
It is actually Criminal!!
So true....
They all or in pain before the hurricane
What did you expect from a corrupt mayor?
@Red Hot Why doesn't Lousiana give priority 1 to hospitals?
I wish I could give this video a thousand likes. I wish all nurses were like Henrietta Walton Nunez. She is the epitome of being Christlike and has a heart of gold! I absolutely LOVE what she said at the end about getting paid to do what she loves and being her brother's keeper.
Dr. Dubois and all the others who stayed to care for those patients deserve awards (at the very least) for their endless service. I'm so glad they were able to come up with a solution to transport their patients to Tulane hospital and to finally get evacuated after that dreadful storm. Rip to all who lost their lives during Katrina. 😢
That prayer from the nurse was so powerful! God heard their cries. It must of been terrifying and traumatic.
Lmao god didn't hear their cries. Are you saying god heard their cries and literally did nothing!? Lmao
THEY PRAYED AS A GROUP...ITS ALL THAT WAS LEFT
@@kali6651 Youve never been in survival and yes God heard them.
@@bonniegranier2890 god hears them, has the power to do anything and doesn't - why?
@Kali, for the same reason you’re an intentionally purposeless sack of human excrement that would rather project your discontent and misery onto others for something that gives them/us solace as opposed to…..you know, living a life so worthwhile that you don’t continuously spew worthlessness.
I truly do hope you can one day evolve to be more compassionate but it often involves acknowledging whatever trauma created your lack of self awareness to begin with.
man God bless those doctors and nurses..wish I could hug them all
I hear ya MissChi
Agreed. 100,000%
In Loving Memory of Charity Hospital in New Orleans from May 10, 1736 to August 29, 2005
New Orleans is such a beautiful place! The people and the culture are absolutely amazing. There's no other place like it. If you've never visited, put it on your bucket list!
A private hospital, with the requirement of insurance and big bills, they watched Charity wait while they took priority in evacuation. Now Charity Hospital is gone, replaced by University Medical Center, no longer helping the poor... The mentally ill that Charity took are now mostly displaced and lost, suicide rates when up quite considerably when Charity died.
That is not fair what are they going to do with those people in need......
@@twyncolen4124 life’s not fair.
I will forever be indebted to Charity Hospital for the AMAZING education, experience and training that I received as a young Nurse Anesthesia Student starting in March 1983. I have been a CRNA for almost 35 years, I love my profession and caring for my patients and I owe it all to Charity for preparing us so well. I'm so sad to see Charity Hospital standing so Proud but remaining so SILENT. If only something could be done to bring Charity back to life!
Ma'am I believe you may have graduated with my mother. Charity is a childhood memory to me. With my mom a student there I could remember going there from time to time as a little kid. I wish the city would rebuild it..
Almost 14 years later, I hope that all who survived are able to find some kind of peace on comfort.
The 17th year anniversary of Katrina is approaching in a few days. Every year I find myself in a rabbit hole of documentaries and articles about Hurricane Katrina. I don’t know why I do it to myself. It brings up so many unresolved feeling of loss, despair and grief. Even still… 17th years later. I was 12 when the storm hit and am still majorly affected by this. The world forgot about us. This documentary was beautiful and shows the dedication of the medical staff and what it truly means to be a survivor.
I was 12 years old too boo & I lived and in Ohio our people all over the country never forgot , me and my mom cried for days wishing we could help all of yal 😢😢😢😢
"I didn't leave because I didn't want to"
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I can’t describe how devastating Katrina was. I live in Louisiana and this was a truly horrific natural disaster.
I can't imagine still hurts to watch the stories even years later. May God bless you and hopefully you have found peace.
@@Pinesol605 yup I remember alot of Katrina victims coming to my city here in Dallas. Are you from Texas or Louisiana?
I also live in Louisiana, and nothing that the weather could ever produce as a natural disaster will ever top the disaster that was Katrina. South Louisiana is full of remarkable people who survived, despite the delay in any type of relief effort, which made Katrina an even BIGGER disaster. Our president was in the sky watching try to keep ourselves alive and dry, they told the world New Orleans was mandatorily evacuated. So many lives lost. Very hard to relive footage from it. Louisiana is soaked in blood.
I was there. I worked as one of the nurses in the make-shift Labor & Delivery Unit with the Nursery staff. It was an unbelievable experience. I will write a book one day. I hope to be able to share my experience with those who are interested one day. We didn't have a baby born on the day of the storm at the hospital, but we had a patient who arrived after the storm and delivered at a nearby hotel. She had to walk through the water to get there. It was a surprise because I knew her. We also had a patient come the next day and be born at the hospital.
I live in new Orleans I left in 1999 one thing I remember n.o had strong down to earth people I missed it
j.r raphard the people are wonderful.. so welcoming and full of life
Im not crying your crying!! I pray that in my life time i am even half as good as that nurse was. Never been so proud of my profession
You’re*
Hurricane Katrina happened on this day 15 years ago. God bless all the medical professionals at charity for your bravery.
Dr Ben is the type of Dr that cares for life and not money. He has excellent character. OF He was local I would go see him. God Bless Dr. Ben D
My sons were born there in 1978 and 1983, I felt that they just delivered your baby, and that was it.. Today I’m amazed at the great treatment women get, we had to go there because we didn’t have health insurance, West Jefferson turned us away when I was having a miscarriage in 1977.
I lived close to New Orleans once and every time I walked by that hospital I began to cry. A year after Katrina I moved away due to property destruction
I was born in Charity in 83 😢 I pray they don't demolish this hospital. Too much history. I live in Texas now. But when I go back home to visit my parents in New Orleans. I have to visit Charity. Most of my family members work there. Most of my family, and including me was hospitalized there. Plus they were good food from the cafeteria there. A man we simply called "donut man." Because he'll put out fresh donuts at 7 in the morning. My favorite was these lemon donuts he'll bake 🤤 Man, memories 😢
Wow, you are amazing people for staying and doing your jobs above and beyond. This really touched me. They were very lucky you guys were responsible for their care and not someone else. God bless you all. Cheers
This made my heart happy and sad at the same time. I'm grateful and blessed to see another day.
I am very proud of the staffs at Charity Hospital in New Orleans because they have did their jobs way before Katrina!
You're right to be proud. These people were more than heroes, they were guardian angels.
Amen for that
Generators need to be on an upper floor in places of low elevation. My mother even has her heat pumps on elevated platforms (not that that would help if power was lost, but they will not get water logged). Her propane generator is also on a raised platform. Thank you to those at Charity who stayed and worked to save lives!
the hospital that I worked in, the generators were on the roof, even though the hospital was not located in a flood plane area, but is located in "TORNADO ALLEY"!!!
@@gregoryclemen1870 that means if a powerful tornado hits those generators are gone in the air with the debree
@@christopherfava2529 ,that would be true, nothing is safe, no matter where backup systems are installed. a bad earthquake would do damage to buildings, and fuel supply lines feeding generators would be broken. the 20 thousand gallon fuel tank located in the ground would be useless. each generator has a "DAY TANK" that would provide fuel for about 30 min .depending on generator load.
@@gregoryclemen1870 I'm borned and raised here in new Orleans,last year when hurricane Ida hit,it was the wind it was like a cat 4,basically like a EF4 tornado damage everywhere,I left for Katrina,Katrina was the water flooding,Ida last year was just pure destruction from the wind that was the difference,I stayed here for Ida I saw debree flying everywhere on my street,roof shingles to tree branches,that wind was howling,hurricane howling winds sounds errie like a freight train
@@christopherfava2529 ,I am sure that being witness to that type of destruction makes a permanent impression on your mind that you will never forget. the biggest tornado activity that we encountered was in 1974( 4/3) where total subdivisions were wiped clean. that was in cincinnati ohio. where I grew up, no house damage was done. a lot of cars got a real beating from hail damage( baseball size hail).
The Louisiana Medical Board and LSU Health both has failed Charity Hospital after Katrina
When I was young, my Daddy (who passed in 2020) told me that Louisiana has the greatest Charity hospital system in the world. This must be what he was talking about. These great people showed us how to live.
There's an extremely tragic story about a nursing home that didn't evacuate like they should have and all the patients died. We learned alot from Katrina and hopefully this never happens again because the storms are always going to be coming.
Do you remember the name of the nursing home?
@@THIS---GUY Saint Rita's nursing home in Saint Bernard Parish. Extremely tragic, criminal, and forgotten about :/
I pass up Charity Hospital at least 4 days a week. It still hurts how it's just still standing but can't be used.
God bless my fellow brothers and sisters doctors nurses CNA's phlebs housekeeping dietary etc of charity hospital.❤️❤️❤️❤️
Signed A Midwest ICU Nurse
Thank you for all you do.
God bless these people! 😭😭😭😭😢😢😢
I would donate millions of dollars to the hospital and maybe they can fix the place and also this place is hundreds of years old
The fact that it’s so old is one of the reasons they chose not to fix it....
God Bless you ALL! Thank you for your service!
God bless these angels on earth❤️
I wish all doctors were like him!
God Bless Charity, the workers, patients.
Sitting in Tulane hospital with my daughter. One of her nurses worked at Charity during Katrina and was one of those stranded. The story she told us was heartbreaking. Everyone of those dedicated staff were nothing less than phenomenal. They placed their lives on the line for their patient. How did the city repay them,,, they forgot them and abandoned them.
They are Heroes! 🙏🏾
I was 12 when this happened. I watched from Maryland. I’m sooooo sorry New Orleans 😿😿😿😔😔😔 my heart is so broken
18 years ago. Wow.
my grandmother told me when i was a kid , they got some of the best doctors in the world at charity
people comin in there with BIG AZZ knives shuved in the head and saviin they life
They wanted to help. It was that hospital that didn’t turn anyone away. They had a passion to fight for patients
Charity hospital saved my life in 2004 with a ruptured ovarian cyst. What happened is inexcusable.
Omg I'm crying
True strength and courage!!
These are the real heroes. Thank you all. God bless you abundantly. Earth angels.
Five days at Memorial brought me here.
This wasn't Memorial Hospital, this is Charty Hospital
@@jtlovescodelyoko I know. The show still brought me here to dig deeper
I really hope they re -open charity hospital...I used to watch a tv show that featured Charity when I was younger and it inspired me to this day to keep working to become a doctor. There aren’t many hospitals like this that gave the best care possible to underserved communities.
the restoration of that complex would be too costly, it would have to be "GUTTED" and start over. nope , I think it will stay as is, and slowly decay until it gets "LEVELED" !!!!
The building was fine after the storm. “People” broke in and sabotaged it floor by floor.
courage, good people
searched up "charity hospital katrina" and was delighted to find a high quality perfect ~10 min informative and easy to watch documentary
This is so touching. May God Bless all nurses and doctors who was at Charity during Katrina May God bless yal every day of yalls lives.
May GOD BLESS each and every one of those, who continued to do the best they could; under such horrific circumstances!❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏
I was born at CHarity hospital Dec. 26, 1979
Happy early birthday sister!
I was born in there.
MrMrsalligator you were
My older brother was born there and my my died there in when I was 6 years old.
So was I..
My brother was born there, I was born in Methodist Hospital down there!!
People will never understand a charity hospital doctor or nurse they were the best and they cared i. Will say this ill tAke a doctor or nurse from there over anyone i would let a doctor from charity operate on me with a toothbrush and a tampon they are traind for everything i was born there charity hospital and been there all my life im from the 9th ward so people will never truly understand. God bless all you nurses and doctors of charity hospital new orleans your the best and always will be also all lsu and tulane medical is the best but will never get training like charity gave i grew up the in 80 90 and 2000 i left in 2012 i still have a. Home there but it will never be the same
And you’re right about that
So this hospital stayed together unlike Memorial who euthanized patients to leave.
Explain
@@AJohns47 look up Dr. Anna Pou
I recommend watching Five Days At Memorial
That Doctor and Nurse are a GOD send ❤️
Wow, my uncle used to live there since 1976 but he moved after the storm
I had to go to Texas because of the storm because I live in Louisiana
The staff members are true heroes. Beautiful souls who deserve the world. But those that lied that the hospital was evacuated knowing it wasn’t I don’t know how they can sleep at night. That’s devastating to me the way they lied and got away with it. I get no one was prepared for a hurricane like that but there was no excuses to lie and abandon these and those people.
Lawd this got me crying at work 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Why ya gotta spell it 'Lawd'? Why can't talk just say 'Lord'? Aye you black or white?
I was a few months old when that happened
Omg 20 years in Healthcare I can say the power of care givers coming together in a crisis is the greatest feeling
I remember that day! My mother was born in Louisiana beautiful place to go maybe I get to see it again as a child we visit there every summer until I was 15 I stop going cause of the masquettos lol.
How could they close a historic place like that??
Watch the documentary "Big Charity". It's super sickening how both the state and LSU Health went about closing this hopsital.
To much money to put in that hospital
Lugz-explo92 it's too**
and that's not exactly the reason why. LSU built a new hospital using state funds and FEMA money. plans were drawn a month before Katrina hit. the "big charity" documentary can explain how LSU obtained the FEMA money better than I can, and how the state made sure this new hospital could be built. technically charity is not closed, UCMC is just an extension of what Charity and University Hospital were. The old Charity building hasn't been sold yet.
Emily D. lol I don't think anyone wants Charity sadly because it's just way too haunted
luckkydraggon1111 it’s so damaged
I am from the Philippines and I can proudly tell the world that our government hospitals are dependable and the doctors and all medical staff take care of the sick even those who cannot pay their hospital bills. Medical assistance frim politicians' funds are being used to pay hospital bills, medicines, laboratory fees and operation of patients especially those who come from poor families. I cannot stop my tears from falling as I watch this video. I hope and pray that the Chwrity Hospital become operaational again.
When the unusual occur miracles happen! The true call to service is demonstrated here 🙏.
The medical professionals in this video are heroes, and I don’t use that word lightly. They’re doing God’s work.
I cant belive there government said forget this bs every man for himself's im sick to my stomach wtf
Soldierbaby I agree with u and I knew someone in charity and I was so scared
DOING IT WHO BROUGHT THE ONIONS
It’s so crazy cause I was born there and I was scared to death of the place
My mother gave birth to all 5 of her children in that hospital.
It moved me so much that I was so depressed for days.
Sometimes bad things like THIS need to happen to get people to be more humble and have more compassion. They have a lot of pride and arrogance in this world
God bless, is all I can say! With a hugg & thank you! Love kenny ❤
GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
Katrina showed how unprepared everyone was for a storm/natural disaster of this magnitude. Unfortunately that is how we as a society and government learn.
God bless you all😭😭
I use to live by that hospital 12 months ago
I can’t believe this was so long ago. Feels like yesterday.
Home. I miss it.
2:16 My mom had to wear a small nurse's aide hat when she was working at a hospital while finishing school to be an RN. The nurse's aide hat requirement was eventually discontinued. I can't imagine a medical personnel wearing an extra large hat (like the one shown at this time stamp) actually being able to perform their job duties! I'm glad the hats at least became smaller over time before they were finally discontinued.
Watching this after Ian 2022. This hits different, poor New Orleans had a rough deal
Wow. Five days without power.
Hospital healthcare worker here. 💔
We love yall
How does one connect with Ms. Henrietta? I would love for her to contact me.
And that’s right
She’s a professor at the charity school of nursing
Is there a way to get this series ?
Great video
We should all do our job as a human being like if u agree
Oh my heart😔🙏 it hurts so so bad to see this I remember when this happened I was in 9th grade and I lived in North Mississippi Tupelo to be exact and I just remember a lot of kids came to our school from Louisiana and South Mississippi I mean we were packed full in the classrooms and I can remember talking to this one boy with dreads with that deep creole accent and I just cried for him often bc seeing him come to school looking so depressed everyday just got to me and everyone in the world was talking about it bc it was very major I remember telling him you can talk to me anytime you need I dont care if I'm in another classroom come get me I will sit n hall floor and listen and if we have to we can cry together some more I used to say I'm so sorry like all the time it made me feel that bad I just wanted to help or be there for him to let him know we are listening and hear they pain I didnt know any other way I mean I was only 15 so I couldn't really do much 🤷♀️😔 I think of him often and wonder how hes doing now? Did he ever go back?
I remember watching this happen on 24 Hr news and wondering where Rescue was coming for all those people on the roofs... Then slowly seeing them go empty and the news reporters getting upset and talking about how slow response from the government was becoming...
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They always said the "government" had a reply waiting...
I moved into an apartment the day before Hurricane Katrina hit, thinking I was going to start nursing school the following week. We r used to hurricanes & tornadoes, but this was just beyond anyone’s experience. There was no time for anything. I still get angry & just can’t understand how some of the decisions were made that day. Was it selfishness of people abusing their power, or maybe we were so used to “riding out the storm” that it was truly a mistake? The only good thing that came of this are earlier evacuations & schools closing at the mention of extreme weather.
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Stil pray for y'all 😢😢😢
Thank god you didn't have to refuge in super dome because it sounded like a nightmare, but should all be proud to help the patients that needed your help when you all probably were worried about about family and friends very selfless
I do wish ALL medical professionals were forced to do trauma training by the army under battle conditions with little to no proper instrumentation /modern medical facilities or alternatively trained in a foreign country where only have 3rd world amenities and medical supplies. Because this is going to happen more and more as the climate crisis worsens.
May they go easy.
As has been said, nostalgia ain't what it used to be. I was gone from that hospital when Katrina hit but I did go through another one during Marid Gras season a few years earlier. I can see now that it was just a matter of time. the way New Orleans is situated. I started out there - a kind of St Elsewhere place - and it I try not to romanticize it. The people like many other places were similar - some special and others not. But I do have lingering memories tied to the place that I can never forget. I am sorry Charity was kicked to the curb by the governments during and after Katrina. It showed a terrible side of humanity but fortunately a human side as well. I often think of the long night shifts worked there after graduating from Charity Delgado SON. We did get hands on learning though not the best teachers. Anyway, it is part of my New Orleans memories and always will be - for better and for worst. I hope one day they do something good with the building.
I was there at 18 military
The singing 🥹🥰 the gospel; god being with them and saying you got this
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