Milestones & Accolades

The new Optimal Hospital at Ochsner Medical Center features patient-centered technology like bedside tablet computers, red night lights to minimize sleep disturbances, wireless monitoring of vital signs and antimicrobial fabrics to help prevent hospital-acquired infections.

Through Ochsner’s new Precision Cancer Therapies Program and Hereditary Cancer Clinic, we can predict which patients are likely to respond to particular therapies, identify those with a higher risk, and offer genetic testing and counseling to give patients a more complete picture.

Ochsner Anywhere Care, an urgent care virtual visit tool, launched as a new choice for non-emergency urgent care that provides an instant connection between patients and physicians.

Employee engagement among Ochsner’s 25,000 employees increased to 57% actively engaged, placing Ochsner at the 79th percentile nationally.

The 48% increase in Ochsner’s minimum wage benefits 1,200+ employees and their families and is helping set a new standard for Louisiana.

Now in its 12th year, the Ochsner STAR (Science, Technology, Academics, Research) Program welcomed 16 high school students in 2018 from across southeast Louisiana. This free program provides hands-on experience to students interested in future healthcare careers.

105 medical students made up the 2018 graduating class of the University of Queensland – Ochsner Clinical School, and since 2009, we have graduated 444 medical students who have gone on to residencies with some of the world’s top medical centers.

Proactively addressing a serious nursing shortage across our region, the new Chamberlain College of Nursing at Ochsner Health System will bring additional, highly qualified nurses into our system over the next three years.

8,000 patients were enrolled in clinical trials and 700+ clinical research studies were active at multiple Ochsner campuses.

River Place Behavioral Health, an 82-bed inpatient behavioral health facility established in partnership with Acadia Healthcare, opened in LaPlace, Louisiana.

Ochsner achieved an 11% reduction in patients exposed to opioid narcotics and was awarded a $1.6 million grant by the National Institutes of Health for opioid treatment and recovery through the Safe Pain Management Program.

Ochsner Baptist and the Brees Dream Foundation partnered to support the expansion of the Women’s Wellness and Survivorship Center, an innovative program that focuses on women’s overall health concerns from young adulthood through natural aging.

The Ochsner Tobacco Cessation program has treated nearly 15,000 patients since its inception and achieves quit rates double the national average, with nearly 30% of participants remaining smoke-free after 12 months.

The Michael R. Boh Center for Child Development opened as the only facility of its kind in Louisiana, offering a comprehensive approach for children with complex developmental, intellectual and behavioral needs.

The Pediatric Congenital Heart Surgery Program achieved a 100% survival rate for neonate and child patients.

The Mothers’ Milk Bank of Louisiana at Ochsner Baptist became accredited by the Human Milk Banking Association of North America as the 24th human milk bank in the United States and the first and only in Louisiana.