re: Tulane to invest 700 million into Charity Hospital in Downtown New Orleans

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Someone not from here who has been CEO for 36 years. Comments?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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?

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.