In the wake of Hurricane Katrina and its accompanying flooding, thousands of people were evacuated from Memorial Medical Center and LifeCare hospitals, which are housed in the same structure in New Orleans. This is the focus of the Apple TV+ medical drama “Five Days at Memorial.” When flooding isolates the hospital building, Memorial Incident Commander Susan Mulderick enlists the help of Tenet Healthcare Corporation to evacuate patients, their families, medical professionals and other hospital staff.
Tenet employee Michael Arvin makes an effort to help. Viewers might be curious if Arvin’s efforts to help people trapped in the Memorial hospital building are comparable in real life. However, we know the answer!
Yes, the character of Michael Arvin is based on a real Tenet worker. At the time of Hurricane Katrina, Tenet hired Arvin as director of strategy and business development for the Texas Gulf Coast region. Sandra Cordray, Memorial’s community relations manager, contacted Tenet to request help with an evacuation, and Arvin immediately began responding. He had to find a method to help Memorial with no experience in handling emergencies. According to the Sheri Fink show’s eponymous source book, he asked Sandra to contact the National Guard, but soon realized she needed to take additional steps.
Arvin contacted several medical facilities that can take Memorial patients if they were evacuated. Atlanta Medical Center even suggested using aeromedical helicopters to transport patients out of the Memorial, but Arvin countered that according to Fink’s book, “the National Guard was coordinating all relief efforts.” Despite hospitals providing support for the evacuation, Tenet executives continued to rely on government resources, so Sandra contacted Arvin once more to inform him that the hospital can accommodate helicopters. The Governor at the time directed the pilots to transport the patients to any receiving hospital, even though Arvin had identified facilities to receive patients who had been evacuated from the Memorial.
Arvin also placed a call to Louisiana’s 911 system to emphasize the urgency of evacuating Memorial Hospital. He informed Sandra that a helicopter crew will be reinforced, according to a statement from an official. Since his communication was recorded as a request for assistance rather than a commitment to send helicopters, Arvin might have misconstrued the same thing. Arvin also contacted a private air logistics company, which scheduled helicopters to arrive in New Orleans to evacuate people.
Michael Arvin currently works for New Era Partners, LLC, a healthcare real estate investment and development company with offices in Grapevine, Texas, where he serves as Executive Vice President of the Strategy and Development Division. His current base of operations is Dallas, Texas. After seven years at Tenet, Arvin’s employment with the organization ended in 2007. After that, he spent four years as senior vice president and director of business development at Dallas-based Methodist Health System. In 2011, he established the health care advisory company Alliance Strategic Health Advisors, LLC, based in Dallas. He also serves as the company’s managing partner.
Hospitals, physician associations, private equity investors and many more can benefit from the advisory services Arvin’s firm offers. He spent more than a year as director of strategy and development at The Sanders Trust before moving to New Era Partners. We respect Arvin’s decision to keep his private affairs completely private.
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