Nine years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans East Hospital (NOEH) opened on the site of the former Pendleton Methodist Hospital, according to an article on the Today's Facility Manager website.
The facility includes a $130 million renovation of an existing six-story, 133,640-square-foot East Tower and the construction of a three-story, 71,700-square-foot Patient Care Pavilion. The East Tower is part of the previous hospital’s campus.
The Today's Facility Manager article includes an interview with Karl Warner, NOEH's facilities director.
Warner also served as construction coordinator during the project. He had been the chief engineer at Pendleton Methodist Hospital when Hurricane Katrina hit. Warner was the last person to leave the site after working with his team to keep the facility powered for the week after initial flooding, the article said.
The NOEH design team made resilience a central part of its approach. Strategies designed into the hospital included locating non-essential services on the first floor, while placing the emergency department and major clinical areas on the second floor and above.
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