Originally founded as Mercy Hospital in 1924 and run by the Sisters of Mercy, this facility was acquired by Tenet Healthcare in 1994 and was renamed Mercy Baptist Medical Center after the merge with Southern Baptist Hospital. In 1996, it changed names a final time to Lindy Boggs Medical Center to honor democratic congresswoman Lindy Boggs, the first woman from Louisiana to be elected to the House of Representatives. This 187-bed acute care hospital offered organ transplant services and was home to a hospice care facility.
When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, about 120 patients, 145 staff, and their families took shelter in the medical center. The levees failed on August 29, 2005, the building was flooded, and consequently the backup generators in the basement failed. 19 people died the first night with no power. The morning after the storm, around 500 people from surrounding flooded neighborhoods would overrun the hospital, so staff hastily made plans to evacuate on their own. Boats found in a nearby garage were hot-wired, but luckily, firefighters arrived before this staff-led evacuation started. Nearly 400 people were evacuated over the course of 7 hours. Those left behind were patients deemed too ill to move and a handful of doctors that decided to stay. These doctors used the previously hot-wired boats to ferry people to a nearby post office being used as a heliport. When all was said and done, the death toll totaled 45.
In October 2005, Tenet Healthcare closed both Lindy Boggs and Memorial Medical Centers, another hospital they owned severely impacted by Katrina. In fact, this was the only hospital that had a higher death toll than Lindy Boggs. In May 2007, Tenet sold Lindy Boggs to Victory Real Estate, who planned to demolish it to build retail space. Obviously, these plans never came to fruition. In 2010, the space was purchased by St. Margaret’s Daughters, a non-profit Catholic organization. They renovated what used to be the hospital's medical office building, and in 2013, opened a nursing facility there called St. Margaret’s at Mercy. Originally, the non-profit intended to open a cardiovascular hospital in the remainder of the building, but when their partnership with LSU ended, this became financially unattainable. On June 8, 2021, Lindy Boggs was sold to architecture and construction firm Woodward Design and Build, who plan to transform the structure into an elder care facility.
As of recently, an article from October 19, 2022 stated the project had stalled due to complications securing necessary loans. Paul Flower, the CEO of Woodward Design and Build, hopes to secure federal funding by mid-2023. In another November 17, 2022 article, Paul said he would apply for this funding within the next couple weeks. It could take potentially eight to eleven months for the deal to go through, and that’s only if it’s accepted. Afterwards, there would be two years of construction, so if all goes smoothly, a late 2025 opening is optimistic.
One of the two abandoned hospitals we visited on this New Orleans trip; slowly but surely, I will conquer the NOLA urbex scene!
VLOG of the exploration!:
https://youtu.be/ZzOcybL_beg 
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https://www.flickr...ple/195818284@N03/ *photos taken August 10, 2022 - last one taken August 11*
the money shot!
HAVE YOU SEEN LINDY??!
your prescription is ready!
wow, the playboy mansion really fell off...
watch your head!
and now, your feet!
Boggs was located, can't say the same for Lindy...
Edit: Modified annoying all-caps Subject line ~Wang 
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