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 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - New Orleans' two public hospitals should be torn down because Hurricane Katrina inflicted hundreds of millions of dollars in damage, leaving them "dangerous, dangerous places," the head of Louisiana's charity hospital system said Wednesday.
Charity and University hospitals "were issued their death warrant by Katrina and the cataclysmic floods it spawned," Donald R. Smithburg told the Louisiana State University Board of Supervisors.
"Even before the storms, these old facilities were on the ropes," he said, noting that Charity was built in the 1930s and University in the 1960s.
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