Original title
Five Days at Memorial
Released
8/11/2022
Origin country
US
Genre
Drama
Production companies
Genre Arts, International Famous Players Radio Pictures Corporation, ABC Signature
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
8
Based on actual events from Hurricane Katrina. When the floodwaters rose, power failed, and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital were forced to make profound, heart-wrenching decisions.
Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in New Orleans. At Memorial Hospital, the doctors, nurses, and staff tend to patients and brace for the storm.
The staff and patients think they’ve made it through the worst—except the waters aren't receding. Reports of a new crisis circulate.
As the city floods, the hospital loses power. Mulderick and the staff attempt to cope with the terrible conditions and prepare for an evacuation.
Conditions continue to worsen. Mulderick, Pou, and more staff grapple with how to best help their patients—and how that help will be prioritized.
With pressures mounting to abandon the hospital, the staff is forced to make challenging decisions.
State investigators begin to explore what happened to the 45 people found dead at Memorial in the aftermath of the hurricane.
New evidence comes to light as Schafer and Rider dig deeper into their investigation of the deaths at Memorial.
Pou fights to defend herself. Schafer and Rider push their case forward.
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