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Lindy Boggs Medical Center
Summary
Lindy Boggs Medical Center, formerly known as Mercy Hospital and also known as Lindy Boggs Hospital, is a now-abandoned 187-bed acute care hospital operated by Tenet Healthcare located in Mid-City New Orleans, Louisiana. The hospital provided many services, including emergency care, critical care, and organ transplantation services.
Mercy Hospital was founded in the 1920s. In the 1990s, Mercy Hospital merged with Southern Baptist Hospital, and the two hospitals operated together as Mercy-Baptist Medical Center. The hospital was subsequently acquired by Tenet Healthcare and renamed Lindy Boggs Medical Center in honor of Democratic Congresswoman and Ambassador Lindy Boggs, who became the first woman in Louisiana to be elected to the House of Representatives.
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005, the hospital was at full census. Many employees' and patients' families decided to take shelter at the facility as well, thinking that they would be safer and more comfortable. When the levee system failed on August 30, however, many persons found themselves trapped in the facility with no way out, with no phone service to ask for help, and no TV or radio to get news updates. 19 people died that day. The hospital also had more problems; no running water, no way to dispose of waste, low food storage, and a terrible smell. Many patients, especially those recovering from risky organ transplantation procedures, were not able to be given the medicines they needed most and, since both the power and the generators had failed, were without vital services such as mechanical ventilation and cardiac monitoring. There was no blood for transfusions and very little medication besides morphine. The generators failed 48 hours after Katrina made landfall, causing temperature rises to as high as 105 degrees, and increasing the death risk of the patients, especially those in the intensive care unit. For a while, the staff used hand pumps to blow oxygen into the patients' lungs.
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