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Works Progress Administration construction sign for the Agricultural Center at Louisiana State University (1936). The Louisiana State University Agricultural Center, or the LSU AgCenter, is an agriculture research center associated with the Louisiana State University System and headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Baton Rouge General Medical Center – Bluebonnet Campus is a 201-bed, private hospital located at 8585 Picardy Avenue in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The hospital offers various medical services and surgical procedures in addition to an Emergency Department.
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 ...
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 area code [1
A local WAFB TV personality by the name of "Buckskin" Bill ended his popular children's program in the 1950s and 1960s by saying "Baton Rouge needs a zoo." He helped rally the Baton Rouge community into supporting the zoo not only in passing the millage election to fund it but also in running a penny drive that raised over 600,000 pennies to purchase the zoo's first two elephants, Penny and ...
In 1923, the Rotary Club of Baton Rouge presented the council with a 15-acre (61,000 m 2) campsite in Greenwell Springs called Camp Istrouma. [1] After the council outgrew the camp, they raised money to move to the Avondale Scout Reservation located in East Feliciana Parish , doing so by the late 1950s.
With the financial support of the Baton Rouge community the Cancer Radiation and Research Foundation – now known as Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center – was established. In 1968, the Foundation held a capital campaign capped by a donation of land from philanthropist Paul D. Perkins, whom he made in honor of his late daughter, Mary Bird.
After years of financial struggle and $154 million from the state since 2012, Baton Rouge General announced the imminent closure of the Mid City emergency department on Tuesday, February 3, 2015. [1] Due to the volume of uninsured patients seeking treatment, hospital losses were exceeding $2 million per month. [2]