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East Jefferson General Hospital inaugurated on February 14, 1971. It originally included 250 beds and 250 physicians . The hospital has since expanded adding medical office buildings, the Yenni Treatment Center for outpatient cancer treatment, and the Domino Pavilion (outpatient laboratory and outpatient radiology , as well as same-day treatments).
Jefferson Parish (French: Paroisse de Jefferson) is a parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 440,781. [1] Its parish seat is Gretna, its largest community is Metairie, [2] and its largest incorporated city is Kenner. Jefferson Parish is included in the Greater New Orleans area.
It temporarily operated out a Catholic school building and the Chabad Jewish Center. Della Hasselle of The Advocate wrote that Torah "struggled just to survive after Hurricane Katrina ." [ 9 ] In 2014 the current 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m 2 ), eight classroom, $5.7 million school facility, built on the site of the previous building, opened.
Mercy Jefferson, a 251-bed hospital that is part of the St. Louis-based Mercy health system, has sought for years to affiliate with a medical school as a way to recruit and retain physicians.
The following year, in 1986, the name of the center was changed to Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center. In 1988, the first satellite treatment center was opened in Hammond, followed by six more Centers in southeast Louisiana and Mississippi: Covington in 1998, Houma in 2008, Gonzales in 2009 and Natchez in 2019.
During the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, WJMC and East Jefferson General Hospital in Metairie served as the main trauma centers for New Orleans due to severe damage to the city's main trauma center, the now-shuttered Charity Hospital, which was one of two constituent hospitals of the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans.
Lindy Boggs Medical Center, formerly known as Mercy Hospital and also known as Lindy Boggs Hospital, is a now-abandoned 187-bed acute care hospital operated by Tenet Healthcare located in Mid-City New Orleans, Louisiana. The hospital provided many services, including emergency care, critical care, and organ transplantation services.
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