New Orleans Hospitals Not Worth Rebuilding
March 30, 2006
New Orleans’s two nonprofit hospitals were damaged so badly in Hurricane Katrina that it wouldn’t be cost-effective to repair them, a new federal report says, according to The Times-Picayune.
The report was issued by the Government Accountability Office, Congress’s investigative arm. It said that trying to rebuild the hospitals would waste tens of millions of government money. As a result, the two hospitals, Charity and University, plan to develop a single hospital in downtown New Orleans.
