Big Charity hospital's future discussed BATON ROUGE, LA. (AP) (wrkf) - A team of architects and historic preservationists are weighing in on the future of Big Charity hospital in New Orleans.

The public hospital was flooded by Hurricane Katrina. State officials are planning to build a new replacement facility, rather than renovating Big Charity.

The Foundation for a Historical Louisiana wants to save the Art Deco landmark.

The organization hired a Philadelphia architecture firm to analyze whether the Big Charity building can be used as a hospital. The report from that analysis will be released to state officials Wednesday.

LSU officials, who run the state's public hospitals, say the Big Charity facility was outdated even before Katrina flooded it in 2005. © Copyright 2009, wrkf