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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.
Ochsner Medical Center, historically also known as Ochsner Clinic, Ochsner Hospital, and Ochsner Foundation Hospital, is a hospital in Jefferson, Louisiana, a short distance from the city limits of New Orleans. [1] It is a part of Ochsner Health System and hosts the organization's headquarters. [2]
On 19 July 2006, Ochsner Health System announced they were acquiring Memorial Medical Center along with two other Tenet Hospitals in the Greater New Orleans area, Meadowcrest Hospital in Gretna, Louisiana and Kenner Regional Medical Center in Kenner, Louisiana. The sale was expected to be finalized by the end of August. [2]
New Orleans East Hospital (Eastern New Orleans) - New Orleans; Ochsner Baptist Medical Center (formerly Memorial Medical Center) - New Orleans; Touro Infirmary - New Orleans; Tulane University Medical Center - New Orleans; University Hospital, New Orleans (defunct) - New Orleans; University Medical Center New Orleans - New Orleans; VA Medical ...
LCMC Health System (formerly known as Louisiana Children's Medical Center) is a nonprofit network of healthcare providers in Southern Louisiana, based out of New Orleans. Members include academic centers, acute care facilities, and research hospitals. LCMC Health, along with Ochsner, dominate the Louisiana health and hospital space.
Alton Ochsner Sr. (May 4, 1896 – September 24, 1981) was an American surgeon and medical researcher who worked at Tulane University and other New Orleans hospitals before he established The Ochsner Clinic. Now known as Ochsner Medical Center, the clinic is the flagship hospital of Ochsner Health System. Among its many services are heart ...
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]
The hospital opened in 1959 as a public hospital managed by the St. Charles Hospital Service District. [2]In 2014, the hospital became part of the Ochsner Health System, a private not-for-profit hospital system. [3]