Social Action Forum:Rebuilding New Orleans at Ben Franklin Elementary

Come Celebrate a New Orleans Milestone Tuesday January 22

Louisiana Justice Institute invites you to a movement for social justice, 12noon at McKenna Museum,Friday May 23,2008

July 24-Open Letter to Mayor Nagin and City Council on proposed demolition for VA hospital

July 28-8:30am-2pm New Zion Baptist Church 2319 Third St,New Orleans,
in conjunction with SCLC(in which Avery Alexander was a member)working for civil rights.
INFO call Derrick at 504-908-5310.

August 4-7-9pm at PJ's 7624 Maple St New Orleans,
planning meeting and social.

Sign and circulate thePublic Hearings petition supporting public hearings with the New Orleans City Council
and Mayor Nagin with Lower Mid-City (see attached MS Word document to print out.
Filled copies can be brought to our August 4 meeting or
Call Brad 504-269-4951 or Derrick 504-908-5310.

For information and or to donate to the Foundation for Historical Louisiana to support the independent inspection of
Big Charity Hospital.
For details go to Foundation for Historical Louisiana
Resources:
Louisiana Justice institute blog
Louisiana Healthcare Matters

Nationally Recognized Architectural Firm Says Charity Hospital “Structurally Sound” and Ready for Transformation to State-of-the-Art Modern Medical Facility
Report from the Foundation for Historical Louisiana:

(source: US News & World Report)

Charity Hospital provides primary, emergency and chronic care for almost all of Louisiana's uninsured. Louisiana has the highest number of uninsured residents per capita in the United States. Nearly 1/3rd of all of Louisiana residents DO NOT HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE AND ARE INDIGENT. This figure has been projected to have risen post Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

The Private Healthcare system in Louisiana cannot cope with providing healthcare to our state's uninsured and indigent residents. According to an article published in the New Orleans Times Picayune on 3/17/2006, entitled, Closure of Charity strains Jeff hospitals, hospitals in Jefferson Parish, which are currently the most comprehensive operating medical facilities in the New Orleans metropolitan region, are at risk of financial collapse because of the closure of Big Charity in New Orleans.