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University Hospital
2021 Perdido Street
New Orleans, LA 70112-1396
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University Hospital (Hotel Dieu)
opened its doors in 1859, more than a century after the founding of Charity.
Hotel Dieu is French for "House of God. " The hospital was founded, owned and
operated by the Daughters of Charity. The Daughters of Charity is an American
order of nuns founded by Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton and affiliated with the
Daughters of Charity in France. This hospital also stayed open during the Civil
War, the only private hospital in New Orleans to do so.
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The present building fronting on Perdido Street was completed in 1972. It
replaced a building finished in 1924, which, in turn, replaced the original
Hotel Dieu.
During the hospital's long history it saw New Orleans through two major yellow
fever epidemics (1853 and 1897). It was the first hospital in the nation to
air-condition its surgical suites (1913), and it was the site of milestone
medical research that developed sulfonamide drug treatment for meningitis (the
1940s).
In the 1970s and '80s, the hospital developed a special relationship with the
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center as that institution expanded
across Claiborne Avenue to build adjacent to University Hospital.
At the end of 1992, at the request of the Edwin W. Edwards administration, the
Daughters of Charity sold Hotel Dieu to the state and the hospital was re-named
"University Hospital".
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