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re: How are the expansion projects coming? Part II
Posted on 8/12/15 at 10:45 am to WeeWee
Posted on 8/12/15 at 10:45 am to WeeWee
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Wow that thing looks so much better than we I took a class and had graduation in the Maddox fieldhouse the last semester before it was renovated.
Looking good, eh?
And let's not forget the "other purpose" the track facilities serve...
The staff of EKL helped transform the Pete Maravich Assembly Center and Carl Maddox Field House into the largest acute care field hospital in the nation's history.
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The nation had never seen anything like it. In anticipation of Katrina’s destruction, the LSU Health Care Services Division and staff at the Earl K. Long Medical Center (EKLMC), the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, and the Louisiana Department of Social Services had developed healthcare services in the LSU Carl Maddox Field House and Pete Maravich Assembly Center.
As the crisis continued to grow, staff expanded the healthcare services that they were providing into the largest acute care field hospital in the nation’s history.
The field house functioned as a special needs shelter before the storm hit. As the epic catastrophe in New Orleans unfolded and the medical needs of arriving evacuees grew great, the operation extended into the Assembly Center. The ill and injured arrived by helicopter, ambulance, and bus.
Neighboring Bernie Moore Track Stadium served as a helipad for countless arrivals and departures. By the time medical services peaked at the LSU athletic facilities on September 8, 2005, they had a capacity of 800 beds, and more than 1,700 medical personnel from all parts of Louisiana and the nation had cared for 6,000 patients.
Five years after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
This post was edited on 8/12/15 at 10:48 am
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Posted on 8/12/15 at 1:16 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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Wow that thing looks so much better than we I took a class and had graduation in the Maddox fieldhouse the last semester before it was renovated.
Looking good, eh?
Oh God yes.
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I just wonder why they didn't but in a banked track? Do you know if there are actually plans to update the facade of the outside of the fieldhouse or was that just "inside sources" on the rant spewing bs?
Hopefully no track facility ever has to function that role again. My uncle who is an ER doc in Memphis came down and worked at the make shift hospital there. He would go work his weekly shifts in Memphis at his hospital and then catch about 2 hours sleep and get in his cessna and fly to BTR catch a ride to the fieldhouse work a few shifts, sleep at their condo in BR fly back to Memphis to work another shift and fly back. He wanted to go to the Superdome but his wife and bosses in Memphis wouldn't let him. He did that for about 2 weeks until his bosses in Memphis were getting pissed.
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