Events Surrounding Hospital Deaths

Aug. 29 - Hurricane Katrina makes landfall east of New Orleans, causing one levee to break.

Aug. 30 - Second levee breaks, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans. Water reaches 10 feet deep around Memorial Medical Center.

Aug. 31 - Some patients and staff evacuated by boat and taken to dry ground but evacuations halt when authorities run out of ground transport.

Sept. 1 - Several patients allegedly given lethal doses of morphine and a sedative.

Sept. 2 - Remaining patients and staff airlifted from hospital.

Sept. 11 - Search teams find more than 40 bodies in the flooded hospital; many are floating on the first floor.

Sept. 14 - Lifecare Hospitals, which leased space at Memorial, reports possible mercy killings of patients to authorities.

Oct. 3 - Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti announces investigation into rumors of euthanized patients at Memorial. Seventy-three people are subpoenaed.

Dec. 7 - Investigators perform inventory of pharmacy.

July 18 - Dr. Anna Pou and nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo are arrested in connection with four deaths at the hospital.

Events Surrounding Hospital Deaths

Aug. 29 - Hurricane Katrina makes landfall east of New Orleans, causing one levee to break.

Aug. 30 - Second levee breaks, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans. Water reaches 10 feet deep around Memorial Medical Center.

Aug. 31 - Some patients and staff evacuated by boat and taken to dry ground but evacuations halt when authorities run out of ground transport.

Sept. 1 - Several patients allegedly given lethal doses of morphine and a sedative.

Sept. 2 - Remaining patients and staff airlifted from hospital.

Sept. 11 - Search teams find more than 40 bodies in the flooded hospital; many are floating on the first floor.

Sept. 14 - Lifecare Hospitals, which leased space at Memorial, reports possible mercy killings of patients to authorities.

Oct. 3 - Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti announces investigation into rumors of euthanized patients at Memorial. Seventy-three people are subpoenaed.

Dec. 7 - Investigators perform inventory of pharmacy.

July 18 - Dr. Anna Pou and nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo are arrested in connection with four deaths at the hospital.

Events Surrounding Hospital Deaths

Aug. 29 - Hurricane Katrina makes landfall east of New Orleans, causing one levee to break.

Aug. 30 - Second levee breaks, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans. Water reaches 10 feet deep around Memorial Medical Center.

Aug. 31 - Some patients and staff evacuated by boat and taken to dry ground but evacuations halt when authorities run out of ground transport.

Sept. 1 - Several patients allegedly given lethal doses of morphine and a sedative.

Sept. 2 - Remaining patients and staff airlifted from hospital.

Sept. 11 - Search teams find more than 40 bodies in the flooded hospital; many are floating on the first floor.

Sept. 14 - Lifecare Hospitals, which leased space at Memorial, reports possible mercy killings of patients to authorities.

Oct. 3 - Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti announces investigation into rumors of euthanized patients at Memorial. Seventy-three people are subpoenaed.

Dec. 7 - Investigators perform inventory of pharmacy.

July 18 - Dr. Anna Pou and nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo are arrested in connection with four deaths at the hospital.

Events Surrounding Hospital Deaths

Aug. 29 - Hurricane Katrina makes landfall east of New Orleans, causing one levee to break.

Aug. 30 - Second levee breaks, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans. Water reaches 10 feet deep around Memorial Medical Center.

Aug. 31 - Some patients and staff evacuated by boat and taken to dry ground but evacuations halt when authorities run out of ground transport.

Sept. 1 - Several patients allegedly given lethal doses of morphine and a sedative.

Sept. 2 - Remaining patients and staff airlifted from hospital.

Sept. 11 - Search teams find more than 40 bodies in the flooded hospital; many are floating on the first floor.

Sept. 14 - Lifecare Hospitals, which leased space at Memorial, reports possible mercy killings of patients to authorities.

Oct. 3 - Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti announces investigation into rumors of euthanized patients at Memorial. Seventy-three people are subpoenaed.

Dec. 7 - Investigators perform inventory of pharmacy.

July 18 - Dr. Anna Pou and nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo are arrested in connection with four deaths at the hospital.

Events Surrounding Hospital Deaths

Aug. 29 - Hurricane Katrina makes landfall east of New Orleans, causing one levee to break.

Aug. 30 - Second levee breaks, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans. Water reaches 10 feet deep around Memorial Medical Center.

Aug. 31 - Some patients and staff evacuated by boat and taken to dry ground but evacuations halt when authorities run out of ground transport.

Sept. 1 - Several patients allegedly given lethal doses of morphine and a sedative.

Sept. 2 - Remaining patients and staff airlifted from hospital.

Sept. 11 - Search teams find more than 40 bodies in the flooded hospital; many are floating on the first floor.

Sept. 14 - Lifecare Hospitals, which leased space at Memorial, reports possible mercy killings of patients to authorities.

Oct. 3 - Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti announces investigation into rumors of euthanized patients at Memorial. Seventy-three people are subpoenaed.

Dec. 7 - Investigators perform inventory of pharmacy.

July 18 - Dr. Anna Pou and nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo are arrested in connection with four deaths at the hospital.

Events Surrounding Hospital Deaths

Aug. 29 - Hurricane Katrina makes landfall east of New Orleans, causing one levee to break.

Aug. 30 - Second levee breaks, flooding 80 percent of New Orleans. Water reaches 10 feet deep around Memorial Medical Center.

Aug. 31 - Some patients and staff evacuated by boat and taken to dry ground but evacuations halt when authorities run out of ground transport.

Sept. 1 - Several patients allegedly given lethal doses of morphine and a sedative.

Sept. 2 - Remaining patients and staff airlifted from hospital.

Sept. 11 - Search teams find more than 40 bodies in the flooded hospital; many are floating on the first floor.

Sept. 14 - Lifecare Hospitals, which leased space at Memorial, reports possible mercy killings of patients to authorities.

Oct. 3 - Louisiana Attorney General Charles Foti announces investigation into rumors of euthanized patients at Memorial. Seventy-three people are subpoenaed.

Dec. 7 - Investigators perform inventory of pharmacy.

July 18 - Dr. Anna Pou and nurses Cheri Landry and Lori Budo are arrested in connection with four deaths at the hospital.