Ochsner Health is the leading nonprofit healthcare provider in the Gulf South. Ochsner inspires healthier lives and stronger communities through our mission to serve, heal, lead, educate and innovate.
History
When Alton Ochsner and four other physicians opened New Orleans’ first group practice with multiple specialties in 1942, they envisioned providing people with the highest quality medical care, making sure patients received personalized and complete care.
Ochsner Health is the leading nonprofit healthcare provider in Louisiana, Mississippi and across the Gulf South, delivering expert care at its 47 hospitals and more than 370 health and urgent care centers. Ochsner is nationally recognized for inspiring healthier lives and stronger communities through expertise, quality and digital connectivity. In 2024, more than 40,000 dedicated team members and 4,900 employed and affiliated physicians at Ochsner cared for 1.6 million people from every state in the nation and 63 countries.
Ochsner is a healthcare system that always reaches out to the communities it serves and is a model for what a healthcare system should be.
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