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The department's mission is to protect and promote health and to ensure access to medical, preventive and rehabilitative services for all citizens of the state of Louisiana. [4] It is Louisiana's largest state agency with a budget of $21 billion and over 6,500 personnel.
Ochsner Health System is a not-for-profit health system based in the New Orleans metropolitan area of southeast Louisiana, United States. [5] As of 2021 [update] it is the largest non-profit, academic healthcare system operating in Louisiana, with 40 medical facilities across the state.
In November 2013, LCMC Health signed a letter of intent to operate under construction New Orleans East Hospital. [6] The hospital was planned to cost about $130 million, and consist of 80-beds. [7] [8] The State of Louisiana entered into a contract with LCMC Health to operate and run the newly constructed University Medical Center, New Orleans.
Christus Health donated almost $100,000 to the Louisiana State Troopers Association Tuesday so the agency could upgrade their night vision goggles, a partnership between law enforcement and health ...
As the flagship of the Ochsner Health System, the non-profit hospital was founded by Alton Ochsner, opening as "Ochsner Clinic" on January 2, 1942. In 2009, Ochsner Medical Center began a partnership with the University of Queensland School of Medicine in Brisbane, Australia for US citizens and permanent residents.
Memorial Medical Center [a] in New Orleans, Louisiana was heavily damaged when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. [1] In the aftermath of the storm, while the building had no electricity and went through catastrophic flooding after the levees failed, Dr. Anna Pou, along with other doctors and nurses, attempted to continue caring for patients. [2]
In 1911, Mother de Bethanie Crowley and five Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady traveled to America, stating their desire to serve the sick and needy. [1] Eight years after establishing a hospital in Monroe, Louisiana, Mother de Bethanie was invited to Baton Rouge by Monsignor Francis Leon Gassler of St. Joseph's Cathedral and a group of leading local physicians, to tour the downtown area in ...
The state of Louisiana is served by the following area codes: 225, which serves the Baton Rouge area and parts of south central Louisiana; 318,457 which serves northern Louisiana; 337, which serves southwestern Louisiana; 504, which serves the New Orleans area; 985, which serves the sections of southeast Louisiana which are not within the 504 ...