“Bringing together professionals across disciplines allows families to schedule appointments with multiple subspecialists in the same day – a major benefit for busy families, especially those who must travel long distances for treatment,” says Dr. Lacey Seymour, Program Director at the Boh Center. A team of physicians, nurse practitioners and rehab therapists provide comprehensive developmental evaluations and link infants to community services. “It’s a program that’s designed to provide not only outstanding care to help these children get better,” says Dr. Seymour, “but also to make the process of navigating resources and information – which can be overwhelming – much easier for families.”
In designing the center, Ochsner solicited feedback from a Parent Advisory Committee. Features such as covered drop-off areas, larger doorways and exam rooms, a therapy gym, healing garden and patient-friendly lighting, acoustics and colors were conceived with family needs and comfort in mind.
There is no other place like the Boh Center in the Gulf South. And the need for such a facility is clear: more than 223,000 Louisiana children have special healthcare needs, and at least one in six has at least one developmental challenge. We are extraordinarily grateful to the Boh family for the trust they have placed in Ochsner to carry on their son’s name – a gift that will brighten the prospects of thousands of children and their families.
2018 Annual Report 
