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Formerly known as Southern Baptist Hospital, it was founded in 1926 . It was acquired by Tenet and received its current name in 1996. The hospital became the official healthcare provider of the New Orleans Saints football team in 1967. The hospital and the area around it flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 , rendering the hospital an island with the bottom floor flooded, with no electricity or other utilities. National attention was drawn to the hospital when CNN reported on October 12 , 2005 that the Louisiana attorney general was investigating the possibility that Mercy Killings of critically ill patients by staff medical professionals at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans occurred while staff and patients were stranded in the hospital after Hurricane Katrina. On September 13 , 2005 Tenet Healthcare Corporation stated: "No patients drowned nor did any die as a result of lack of food or drinking water." However, others have claimed that bodies were removed in large numbers from the building and that a female physician may have given lethal injections of morphine to patients. The hospital was closed after the surviving patients and staff were able to be evacuated. As of December, 2005, the hospital remains closed, and management has been discussing demolishing the main hospital buildings rather than refurbishing them. EXTERNAL LINKS
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