The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans is a

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focused on the health sciences and located in

New Orleans, Louisiana New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans

. It is part of the LSU System and is the home of six schools (including one of two LSU

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s), 12 Centers of Excellence, and two patient care clinics. Due to

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, the School of Dentistry was temporarily located in

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but has since returned to its campus in New Orleans. As a public university, it mostly accepts residents of the state of Louisiana with the exception of combined M.D./Ph.D. students and also children of alumni.

History

The LSU Health Sciences Center School of Medicine was founded in 1931 commissioned by

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It facility was originally located at 1542 Tulane Avenue, adjacent to the then-rebuilt

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, which was completed in 1939. Governor Long considered himself the "founder" of the LSU School of Medicine, having written in his

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, '' Every Man a King'':

"There had been completed the magnificent structure for that school in the midst of the buildings of the Charity Hospital of New Orleans. That new school, upon examination, was found to have been supplied with every modern device or contrivance suggested and recommended by the national medical organizations. It was given 'A' rating by the
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before it had been in operation more than eighteen months."

The School of Graduate Studies was established in 1965, followed by the School of Dentistry in 1966, the School of Nursing in 1968, and the School of Allied Health Professions in 1970. The School of Public Health followed in 2003.LSUHSC.
Timeline.
In the immediate wake of Hurricane Katrina, LSUHSC-NO suffered drastically lowered capacity at its two teaching hospitals, Charity Hospital and

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. LSUHSC-NO went 15 months without the use of either facility, and was forced to set up a trauma center in a vacant shopping center. University Hospital was extensively renovated before reopening on November 20, 2006. The fate of Charity Hospital was a more controversial issue. Grassroots efforts to restore the Charity Hospital building failed when it was deemed by an arbitration panel to be more than 50% damaged. In 2011, state and LSU officials broke ground on a $1.1 billion teaching hospital in the lower mid-city area of New Orleans. On August 1, 2015, University Medical Center New Orleans opened as a state-of-the-art academic medical center for medical, dental and allied health education in addition to bioscience research. The new facility is one of the anchors of New Orleans' biomedical research corridor.BioDistrict New Orleans

Organization

Schools

* School of Allied Health Professions * School of Dentistry * School of Graduate Studies * School of Medicine * School of Nursing * School of Public Health

LSUHSC Teaching Hospital

* University Medical Center New Orleans

LSUHSC Clinics

* LSU Healthcare Network * LSU Health Sciences Center School of Dentistry

References

External links

Official website
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