Primary care in NO East expected December 2013

By Zoe Sullivan
Contributing Writer

December sizwe cash loan 2013 is the estimated opening date for the new hospital in New Orleans East, according to City Health Commissioner Dr. Karen DeSalvo. The city purchased the former Methodist Hospital site in August 2010 for $16.25 million. This was a step towards resolving one of the city’s major post-Katrina issues: The lack of healthcare facilities in New Orleans East.

But area Councilmember Jon Johnson says that he feels the hospital should have been prioritized sooner.

“I think people are downright angry about the fact that it has taken so long for basic healthcare services to return to he community, and I concur with them,” get cash advance fast Johnson told The Louisiana Weekly.

Asked for examples of projects that took precedence over the hospital, Johnson told The Louisiana Weekly that he disagreed with allocating funds to the riverfront park stretching along the Marigny and Bywater neighborhoods to the Industrial Canal. ”That’s one of the obvious ones that sticks in my craw of projects that are underway and a significant amount of the disaster money that should have been going to the opening of a hospital in New Orleans East,” he said.

Dr. DeSalvo reassured The Louisiana Weekly that the process is moving as quickly as possible. “Our goal is to submit an acs inc payday loan application to HUD [Housing and Urban Development] on May 15, a point at which we’ll have a much better sense of the cost of the hospital and be able to ask for a low-cost loan from the Feds,” she said.
 
DeSalvo stressed that remediation work on the building is scheduled to begin this summer. She said that the current cost estimate for the construction work and initial operating costs is $140 million.
 
Although the hospital isn’t scheduled to come online until late 2013, some services will become available through the primary care facility that the faith-based medical service provider, Daughters of Charity, will be running. Michael Griffin, president and absolutely guaranteed payday loans chief executive officer of the organization, told The Louisiana Weekly that Daughters of Charity will begin providing services on May 7 at an interim location.
 
“We’ll start with a primary care provider and a pediatrician,” Griffin said, explaining that beginning to serve people would help build the clinic’s practice while work continues to bring the permanent location into operation. “We look at 2,200 patients per provider,” Griffin said, describing the expectations for the number of people the interim facility will serve. He went on to say that Daughters of Charity expects to grow “at minimum, [to] seven providers at the permanent site, which would accommodate at least 15,000 patients.”
 
Griffin told The Louisiana same day loans colorado Weekly that the interim location will be in a professional office building on the medical campus off of Reed Boulevard.
 
Asked about the commitment to hire locally for the hospital’s construction, DeSalvo stressed the mayor’s commitment to this point. “It’s really important to the economic development of New Orleans,” she said. DeSalvo also noted that she expects the proposals for bidding will be posted on the city’s website in July. Additionally, she explained that the city’s partner for managing the hospital are the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, a Catholic, Louisiana-based entity.

This article originally published in the April 23, 2012 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.