Memorial Medical Center Hurricanes

In 2005 New Orleans experienced one of the toughest hurricanes in US history Hurricane Katrina. Memorial Medical Center personnel went several days without water, food, power, and limited or no medical supplies. . Temperatures were unbearable reaching 100 degrees. There were more than 200 patients some of which were on life support, ventilators, and oxygen all that operated electronically. Medical personnel had to operate bagged valve masks by hand when the Life support monitors drained the back-up batteries. An evacuation plan was set. The goal was to evacuate the staff by boat and the patients to exit the Memorials roof where helicopters would pick them up and transport them to another facility with no one being left behind, however the healthiest patients would be the first ones to leave and staff volunteers would be last. …show more content…
The seventh floor was leased to a long-term acute care operation called LifeCare Holdings, Inc. This is where patients that were chronically ill or suffering from calamitous accidents or ailments which requires full-time care until they are healed enough to return home, a nursing home, or wherever they were transported from. There were 55 patients on the LifeCare floor.

The first day only 25 patients had been rescued and flown to another facility. Which left Dr. Anna Pou one of the doctors from LifeCare to change the Memorials mission. According to the affidavit filed by Louisiana’s then-Attorney General Charles Foti, the nine remaining LifeCare patients were euthanized by being given a lethal dose of a drug cocktail which

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