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Ochsner Health System is a not-for-profit

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based in the

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of southeast

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, United States. it is the largest non-profit, academic healthcare system operating in Louisiana, with 40 medical facilities across the state. Its flagship

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Ochsner Medical Center 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. It is a part of Ochsner Health Syst ...

, has been ranked the number one hospital in Louisiana for the past decade. It also has other clinics and medical centers in

Greater New Orleans The New Orleans metropolitan area, designated the New Orleans–Metairie metropolitan statistical area by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, or simply Greater New Orleans (french: Grande Nouvelle-Orléans, es, Gran Nueva Orleans), is a me ...

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, Monroe,

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, and other locations across Louisiana and Mississippi.

History

Ochsner was founded by Dr.

Alton Ochsner 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 Cen ...

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reached an agreement with the Ochsner Health System to build and operate emergency rooms in Louisiana under the Ochsner name in September 2016. During the

COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana The first presumptive case relating to the COVID-19 pandemic in Louisiana was announced on March 9, 2020. Since the first confirmed case, the outbreak grew particularly fast relative to other states and countries. , there have been 1,454,828 cumu ...

, the Ochsner Health System was strained by surges in patient volume. In part, efforts to provide healthcare were complicated by resistance to vaccination among healthcare workers, and the effects of

Hurricane Ida Hurricane Ida was a deadly and extremely destructive Category 4 Atlantic hurricane in 2021 that became the second-most damaging and intense hurricane to make landfall in the U.S. state of Louisiana on record, behind Hurricane Katrina in 200 ...

. In 2021 Oschner stated that employees with spouses who did not take the

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will pay more for health insurance. Ochsner reported a drop of $74M in operating income in 2021, attributed to the effects of

and the

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. In June of 2021, a significant Gulf Coast expansion was announced. Ochsner took over

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in Mississippi and Alabama.

Ochsner Health System hospitals

; Louisiana *

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* Leonard J. Chabert Medical Center - Houma *

Ochsner Baptist Medical Center Ochsner Baptist Medical Center is a hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. The complex of hospital buildings is located on Napoleon Avenue in Uptown New Orleans. History Formerly known as Southern Baptist Hospital, it was founded in 1926 by the So ...

(formerly Memorial Medical Center) -

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* Ochsner Hospital for Children -

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(formerly Summit Hospital) -

* Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport (formerly University Health) -

* Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - Monroe Medical Center (formerly University Health - EA Conway) - Monroe *

Ochsner Medical Center – Kenner Ochsner Medical Center – Kenner, also called Ochsner Kenner, is a hospital in Kenner, Louisiana, United States. The 170-bed hospital opened in 1985 as St. Jude Hospital and was later renamed Kenner Regional Medical Center. The hospital was r ...

(formerly Kenner Regional Medical Center) -

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Ochsner Medical Center – Northshore Ochsner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Alton Ochsner (1896–1981), American surgeon and medical researcher who founded the Ochsner Foundation Hospital * Jeffrey Karl Ochsner (born 1950), American architect, archit ...

(formerly NorthShore Regional Medical Center) - Slidell *

Ochsner Medical Center – West Bank Ochsner Medical Center – West Bank is a hospital in Gretna, Louisiana, USA. The 107-bed hospital opened in 1984 as Meadowcrest Hospital and was run by Tenet Healthcare. Following Ochsner Health System Ochsner Health System is a not-for-profi ...

(formerly Meadowcrest Hospital) - Gretna * Ochsner Medical Complex – Iberville -

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* Ochsner St. Anne General Hospital (formerly St. Anne General Hospital) - Raceland
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St. Charles Parish Hospital St. Charles Parish Hospital is a hospital in Luling, Louisiana. History The hospital opened in 1959 as a public hospital managed by the St. Charles Hospital Service District. In 2014, the hospital became part of the Ochsner Health System, a pri ...

- Luling Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center campuses (formerly Lafayette General Health System) * Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center (formerly Lafayette General Medical Center) -

* Ochsner Abrom Kaplan Memorial Hospital (formerly Abrom Memorial Hospital) -

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* Ochsner Acadia General Hospital (formerly American Legion Acadia Post 15 Hospital) -

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* Ochsner St. Martin Hospital (formerly Gary Memorial Hospital) -

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* Heart and Vascular Center of Acadiana - Lafayette * Ochsner Lafayette General Orthopedic Hospital - Lafayette * Ochsner Lafayette General Surgical Hospital - Lafayette * Ochsner University Hospital (formerly LSU University Medical Center) - Lafayette ; Mississippi * Ochsner Hancock Medical Center -

Bay St. Louis Bay St. Louis is a city in and the county seat of Hancock County, Mississippi, Hancock County, Mississippi, in the United States. Located on the Gulf Coast on the west side of the Bay of St. Louis, it is part of the Gulfport, Mississippi, Gulfp ...

References

External links

ochsner.org
Healthcare in Louisiana {{US-health-org-stub