re: New Orleans is rapidly becoming a new city. rate of development is ridiculous.

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The hospital is a shell that looks huge. But it doesn't have the funding to fulfill Jindal's promised levels of care and especially to help fill the gaping hole of mental health care beds the city and region is missing.

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I'm pretty sure they have an 60 inpatient beds just for mental health patients.

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BlueYoda

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I'm pretty sure they have an 60 inpatient beds just for mental health patients.

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According to the NYT article I read on August 1st, you're correct. It also indicates that this represents a 40% decrease in available beds for mental healthcare issues which is a STAGGERING drop from Charity levels.

On top of that, they'll only run 38 of them, which will represent a 62% reduction in mental healthcare beds in the new facility. Which-even if it operates at 100% capacity 100% of the time (which we know it won't)-is a flat our horrifying stat.

It makes the streets unsafe, the citizenry less healthy, and subjects people who have anywhere from issues forgetting to take their meds one afternoon to true critical mental illness issues to Orleans Parish Prison. In the year 2015, after spending a BILLION DOLLARS building a replacement for Charity, funneling these poor people through the prison system is inexcusable and an utter failure of the Administration and those behind the UMCNO.

This is from a guy who pulls the lever for the R consonant routinely.

It's a damn joke what we are doing to these people.

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And it will have far fewer beds for psychiatric patients than Charity, which had nearly 100 inpatient beds plus a 40-bed crisis intervention unit. The new hospital will have 60 psychiatric inpatient beds but will use only 38 to start, transferring patients from a facility that had been housing them since the storm.

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Saw a house come on the market in Lakeview that looked really nice. $260/sqft.

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It's hard to believe you could find houses in Lakeview for under $100/sqft less than five years ago.

Random murders spreading to the quarter, nope same dump as always

Maaaannn. I haven't been there for almost three years.... until last week. I stayed in the quarter for 5 days. I've never seen so many fricked up sketchy, weird people there. I live in SF and it was close to that. It STUNK bad. REALLY BAD. Like stink.

Two legged cockroaches creepin and peepin around..seeing what kind of hustle they can pull on tourists. WAY beyond "I know where you got your shoes"..

NO COPS ANYWHERE


But the carnitas ma fukin tacos at Johnny Sanchez made up for a lot!

STabbings ON Bourbon St tonight.. That shite is fricked up. That used to not happen RIGHT on Bourbon. Lil mother frickers.

I know that street is shitty.. I know. But, tourists don't know.. they want to come see what's up. I would not even be able to laugh most of the bullllllshit I saw off to a friend from out of town seeing it for the first time. It was shite every night for a week.

Them tacos tho.

The quarter needs to be policed to protect NOLA's number one industry, tourism.

I know their short on cops.. but tourists spreading shite reviews hurts the city pretty badly.

#Touristsmoneymatters #savelakeview

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On top of that, they'll only run 38 of them, which will represent a 62% reduction in mental healthcare beds in the new facility. Which-even if it operates at 100% capacity 100% of the time (which we know it won't)-is a flat our horrifying stat.

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They will open all 60. They are only opening 38 because the are only 38 patients at the current facility, Depaul. They will fill the other beds as necessary.

And, you left out an important part of the article.

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At the same time, dozens of new community clinics have opened, providing desperately needed primary and mental health care outside the hospital setting. The clinics occupy 60 sites in greater New Orleans, compared to a handful in 2004.

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Acute mental health care is just a bandaid for the greater problem. The new clinics will do more to alleviate the problem then adding 40 more inpatient beds.

And if all goes to plan the hospital has the space and already has plans in place for two more inpatient towers in the next 5-10 years.

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We bought 4,000 or 6,000 pieces of art for it...on the way to a BILLION dollar price tag. But we can't even provide similar service levels to what we had before with an admittedly crummy charity?

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The art was bought to satisfy some piece of legislation passed years ago which states that 1% of purchase price of new government buildings has to go towards art.

Well, 1% of 1 billion is a lot.

No Top Golf?

List is shite..

He's the anti christ. Therefore, he is the one causing Antarctica to melt, not the one who will stop it.

They've been trying to turn it into condos/apts for 10 years.