Now it appears it's up to the legal system for a decision to be made....is it too old to re-open? Is there any other replacement that could help the local residents? BD
Attorneys representing seven uninsured patients filed a lawsuit Thursday to force the
state to reopen Charity Hospital or make other provisions to care for thousands of people with diabetes, cancer, chronic mental illness and other conditions that have deteriorated from lack of access to health care since Hurricane Katrina.
Louisiana State University reopened University Hospital after the storm to provide safety net care to the region's uninsured, but the attorneys argued that University does not provide the full complement of services that were available at Charity. University has 171 staffed beds, compared to 550 at the two hospitals before the storm.
http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/lawsuit_filed_to_reopen_charit.html
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