Ochsner Baptist Medical Center Opens Pain Management Program
NEW ORLEANS - Managing chronic pain is important and with today’s medical treatments, most pain can be well-controlled helping patients live better and improving their quality of life. Ochsner Baptist Medical Center announced today that it has opened a new Pain Management Program with comprehensive consultative and interventional pain management services at its Uptown campus. The Pain Management Program offers patients evaluation, diagnosis, intervention and management of pain-related diseases and disorders. Drs. Tarun Jolly, Hazem Eissa, M. Ali Khan, Eric Royster and Nurse Practitioner Sherry Farrington are seeing patients at the new clinic located in the McFarland Building, Suite 540, at 4429 Clara Street.
“Pain management has advanced so far from where it was just a few years ago and new minimally invasive modalities are now available to help these patients. As a result, our focus has changed from just controlling a person’s pain to actually treating the cause of their pain, so that the patient can work towards becoming pain free.” says Dr. Jolly, Director of Pain Management at Ochsner Baptist.
Most recently, Ochsner Baptist announced its plans to open an Emergency Room slated for opening January 2009. In March 2008, a Urology Clinic located on the 6th floor of the Women’s Pavilion opened with Drs. Satish Karnik, Melissa Montgomery and Harold Fuselier.
The OBMC Imaging Center opened in November 2007 and includes state-of-the-art equipment, 64-slice CT machine, MRI, Ultrasound, Radiography, Fluoroscopy, Nuclear Medicine and Echo Cardiology testing. In addition, a Picture Archive and Communication System (PACS) enables physicians to view patient images in their offices and throughout the hospital, including inside operating rooms.
OBMC is capable of handling virtually all medical and surgical cases with the exception of trauma, open-heart surgery and neurological cases. Ochsner Baptist has over 300 community physicians with privileges at the facility.
To schedule an appointment with the Pain Management Program, please call 504-842-5300.
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