Five Days at Memorial Season 1
When the floodwaters rose, power failed, and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital were forced to make profound, heart-wrenching decisions.
Episodes
E1Hurricane Katrina makes landfall in New Orleans. At Memorial Hospital, the doctors, nurses, and staff tend to patients and brace for the storm.
E2The staff and patients think they've made it through the worst—except the waters aren't receding. Reports of a new crisis circulate.
E3As the city floods, the hospital loses power. Mulderick and the staff attempt to cope with the terrible conditions and prepare for an evacuation.
E4Conditions continue to worsen. Mulderick, Pou, and more staff grapple with how to best help their patients—and how that help will be prioritized.
E5With pressures mounting to abandon the hospital, the staff is forced to make challenging decisions.
E6State investigators begin to explore what happened to the 45 people found dead at Memorial in the aftermath of the hurricane.
E7New evidence comes to light as Schafer and Rider dig deeper into their investigation of the deaths at Memorial.
E8Pou fights to defend herself. Schafer and Rider push their case forward.