Hotel Dieu

Hospital

Hotel Dieu was a New Orleans hospital run by the Daughters of Charity, located next to the LSU School of Medicine's campus.  In 1992, it was sold to the state and renamed University Hospital.

In French-speaking countries, a hôtel-Dieu (hostel of God) was originally a hospital for the poor and needy, run by the Catholic Church. Nowadays these buildings or institutions have either kept their function as a hospital, the one in Paris being the oldest and most renowned, or have been converted into hotels, museums, or general purpose buildings (for instance housing a préfecture, the administrative head office of a French department).

Therefore, as a secondary meaning, the term hôtel-Dieu can also refer to the building itself, even if it no longer houses a hospital.