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Pastimes : Reconstruction of New Orleans and Katrina Aftermath
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To: carranza2 who wrote (3)10/5/2005 8:49:07 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor  Read Replies (1) of 249
 
Look forward to having you contribute. Hopefully we can get some other New Orleans-area posters here as well, and get a sense of where the rebuilding is heading. There have been many media pieces on this of course. There was a decent discussion on MSNBC yesterday about whether the Ninth Ward should be bulldozed under eminent domain, the property holders reimbursed, and the whole thing turned into a park/flood basin. I'm sure that idea will be kicked around a bunch as it MAY simplify future flood planning (ie, shorten the dimensions of the levees needed.

Charity trauma unit was top notch, but that can be reconstructed in a new facility (and probably better). The building itself was beyond decay....it was barely air-conditioned, the ICU's were archaic, the elevators barely worked (which was a major detriment if a patient needed an emergency procedure or x-ray). Frankly, it's a miracle that it functioned as long as it did. I think everyone should be on the lookout for turf wars between the providing health entities downtown, to avoid a lot of unnecessary redundancy and waste during the rebuilding. For example, there should be ONE burn center, ONE level one trauma center (with simple ER's being provided for University health center/TMC for patient intake). Obviously it would make sense for parking to occupy the ground floor(s) of the complex and at a minimum have the emergency generators on the third floor and higher as a building code standard. The land that Charity is on would be a reasonable site for the new hospital, as it always had good freeway/road access.
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