The buildings have unsafe air to breathe, pervasive mold growing, and mechanical systems that were completely destroyed by the storm.

The opportunity to maximize limited dollars through collaboration with the VA is immense, bold, and compelling in our post-Katrina environment.

It's not really up to the hospitals to decide what the health care delivery system should be.

We are going to build newer, more modern facilities that will withstand the test of time. They will withstand the next storm, and the one after that.

Even before the storms, these old facilities were on the ropes.

The big Charity and University hospital buildings were issued their 'death warrant' by Katrina and the cataclysmic floods it spawned. Both facilities are dangerous, dangerous places.