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Ensuring Fiscal Responsibility and Common Sense in Planning for New Orleans Healthcare is Imperative in Saving Historic Charity Hospital and the Mid-City Neighborhood.

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On Wednesday, May 27th, the Louisiana House Health and Welfare Committee will consider HB780. Sponsored by the committee’s Vice Chair, Representative Rick Nowlin, this measure would require LSU to have a financial plan for the proposed New Orleans medical center approved by the state legislature before being allowed to acquire any property.

Fiscal responsibility during a difficult economy means making sure that LSU has a sound business plan to operate its proposed $1.2 billion hospital before being allowed to buy or seize land in the New Orleans Mid-City neighborhood.

Fiscal responsibility also requires evaluating less expensive options. For instance, a state-of-the-art hospital could be built inside the gutted shell of Charity Hospital — saving $283 million over new construction and opening years earlier, while avoiding the expropriation of private property.

Please contact members of the Health and Welfare Committee and ask them to support HB780 when they consider it on Wednesday, May 27th.

For additional information, contact Walter Gallas in the New Orleans Field Office of the National Trust for Historic Preservation or Sandra Stokes from the Foundation for Historical Louisiana.

Thank you for your support.