Pendleton Memorial Methodist Hospital appears in the account as a sister campus of Chalmette Medical Center in the New Orleans area—and as a destination that could not guarantee refuge from the approaching disaster. Patients sent there before Hurricane Katrina were transferred from one threatened hospital to another that was itself severely disabled by floodwaters and generator failures.

Place in the Hospital Network

The book identifies Pendleton as Chalmette Medical Center’s sister campus and places it in the New Orleans area. That connection mattered during the preparations for the storm: some patients moved out of Chalmette before landfall were taken not to a secure destination beyond the region, but to another hospital exposed to the same unfolding emergency.

Transfers Before the Storm

The transfers preceded the worst flooding, but relocation did not remove the patients from danger. Pendleton was subsequently severely disabled by floodwaters and generator failures. The brief account does not specify the individual patients’ later circumstances; it establishes the stark limit of a transfer plan that moved people between facilities without necessarily moving them beyond the disaster’s reach.

Legal Reference and Significance

The book’s notes also cite a similar lawsuit involving Pendleton Methodist Hospital. The reference places the hospital within the wider legal aftermath of Katrina’s healthcare failures, but supplies no further particulars about the claims or their resolution. Together, these mentions give Pendleton a specific but limited place in the narrative: a receiving hospital affected by the same regional collapse, and a site associated with later litigation.