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re: Tulane to invest 700 million into Charity Hospital in Downtown New Orleans
Posted on 6/24/26 at 7:41 am to soccerfüt
Posted on 6/24/26 at 7:41 am to soccerfüt
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Someone not from here who has been CEO for 36 years. Comments?
Shows how different the healthcare market is now. Dude probably worked in the mailroom at a small hospital but because he had a masters and a pulse he was made CEO of a large national chain. Healthcare administration is ridiculously hard to get into. Most of the masters programs for it are just diploma mills.
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Posted on 6/24/26 at 7:42 am to soccerfüt
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Someone not from here who has been CEO for 36 years. Comments?
All that I know he must have been doing something right.
He knows how to navigate the pitfalls of being a regional hospital in a somewhat isolated area and has built up high level facility without the need of a millage that most local hospital boards collect and has not used public bond financing to fund its recent expansions. All if not most of it was built with cash and no debt. He also built up his facilities without the need of branded strategic partnerships with other larger hospital providers.
Although he has pissed off a few other area hospitals by encroaching on their territory and opening up clinics outside of Thibodaux Regional’s service area as part of its operations as a 501(c)3 nonprofit instead of its status as hospital service district.
Also on a personal note…I hear he wears magic underwear, not that there is anything wrong with that.
This post was edited on 6/24/26 at 7:53 am
Posted on 6/24/26 at 7:43 am to PSS101
Lots of memories in that old building. I remember how dimly lit it was with drab colors. Cold tile walls, masses of humanity milling around. Spending the night in hot resident dorms in the top floors and eating in the basement. Old men operating the elevators manually. Endless streams of patients in large waiting rooms all with a name entered on a list. Some would wait all day only to be seen in the afternoon. To the patients it was often as much of a social setting as a medical visit. Saturday night in the ER was sensory overload.
I honestly think that building is best demolished. A relic of times best forgotten.
I honestly think that building is best demolished. A relic of times best forgotten.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 7:45 am to Legion of Doom
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Hopefully this happens. That building is like a festering turd in the middle of downtown. They also need to repurpose the old VA building and the old Charity School of Nursing buildings. Too many homeless hanging around those buildings.
Always thought it was a good idea to move UNO downtown, might help with recruiting students to go there since it's close to to downtown, the port, the hospitals, and whatnot. LSU New Orleans should do this, wouldn't have to duplicate programs like nursing or allied health.
I know it's not an ideal place but downtown Atlanta has gotten a lot of investment since Georgia State started their expansion.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 7:48 am to PSS101
If it works - great
However, I'm skeptical of anything Tulane does. They couldn't keep their own shitty hospital open and had to infiltrate EJ and the entire LCMC complex. They've always piggybacked onto LSU's facilities. I also wonder about the use for this now with the new UMC, but I'm out of the loop re downtown medical politics now.
So not sure where they're getting the money and support for this other than private donations?
However, I'm skeptical of anything Tulane does. They couldn't keep their own shitty hospital open and had to infiltrate EJ and the entire LCMC complex. They've always piggybacked onto LSU's facilities. I also wonder about the use for this now with the new UMC, but I'm out of the loop re downtown medical politics now.
So not sure where they're getting the money and support for this other than private donations?
Posted on 6/24/26 at 7:58 am to metallica81788
quote:If that’s how you think it worked/works, enjoy your “reality”.
However, I'm skeptical of anything Tulane does. They couldn't keep their own shitty hospital open and had to infiltrate EJ and the entire LCMC complex.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 8:19 am to sabbertooth
Sounds like today’s hospitals. Wait all day, only for subpar treatment now, helicopter folks using it for social scene; some things don’t change. Should have re-opened under a facelift. Those were the days of medicine vs managed care instructing the field what to do as done now. Charity churned out nurses and allied health. 2 years in and out and get to work. But yeah, the building needed work. I have a chaplain friend who was stuck there after Katrina. He wrote a book about it.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 8:41 am to Tall Tiger
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Charity Hospital had foundation problems upon original construction
I read this book last week and it mentioned how when the hospital was first opened they thought there were major foundation issues and the building sank one story.
They joked that the basement was the original first floor and you entered from the street on the second floor.
That ended up being just a joke. There was/is foundation issues but nothing serious only what you’d typically find on a old building in south Louisiana
Posted on 6/24/26 at 9:48 am to metallica81788
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However, I'm skeptical of anything Tulane does. They couldn't keep their own shitty hospital open and had to infiltrate EJ and the entire LCMC complex.
Lol, that's quite the take.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 10:05 am to rintintin
It will be great if Tulane is able to pull it off. I think they got a big donation from Goldring Foundation . The new UMC is much better than Charity and has actually been kept nice with LCMC .
Posted on 6/24/26 at 11:17 am to sabbertooth
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I honestly think that building is best demolished.
Agreed - Lipstick on a pig at best.
"Aint dere no more" is perfectly fine for this one.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 12:14 pm to GreenRockTiger
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Jindal should’ve never let that building go so long
Yes and no. Should the building have been maintained better, yes, if the funds were available. The issue was Charity was less of a hospital to serve the medical needs of the community, and more of a jobs program. Every politician in N.O. used jobs at Charity as a way to get votes, compared to other public hospitals its size, it was overstaffed by support personnel.
Before he was governor, when he was head of hospitals, Jindal was the wonderkid of healthcare, he made every dollar count. He commented once on TV, "It would be cheaper to load up charter jets and fly all the patients to the Mayo clinic for treatment, than to continue to operate Charity Hospital".
Posted on 6/24/26 at 6:38 pm to andouille
quote:yeah, he was full of shite
"It would be cheaper to load up charter jets and fly all the patients to the Mayo clinic for treatment, than to continue to operate Charity Hospital".
Posted on 6/24/26 at 6:41 pm to LemmyLives
quote:it shouldn’t be - a big chunk of the state’s economy is because of New Orleans
NOLA is disliked by more than just governors, and for good reason.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 6:42 pm to PSS101
Pretty wild that Charity has sat there empty for 20 years. Tulane better be ready for a YUGE renovation bill. Buildings sitting idle and empty go downhill quick.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 6:44 pm to Pax Regis
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Pretty wild that Charity has sat there empty for 20 years. Tulane better be ready for a YUGE renovation bill. Buildings sitting idle and empty go downhill quick.
Believe it or not, there's been some bare bones maintenance over the years. It's bad, but it's not critical. Not like they can just implode the thing anyway.
Posted on 6/24/26 at 6:47 pm to Stealth Matrix
If I were Tulane, I would have demolished the building and start from scratch
Posted on 6/24/26 at 6:54 pm to PSS101
I am just curious and it might be a dumb question, but if they invest $700M and it will be a charity hospital, how will it get money to fund its day to day operation?
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