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.
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.
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Ochsner is committed to a clinically-integrated research program with the ultimate goal of improving the health and wellness of our patients and communities. As the largest academic medical center in Louisiana, we are training the next generation of healthcare professionals to be leaders who can meet evolving healthcare challenges.
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For the eighth year in a row, U.S. News & World Report has ranked Ochsner Children's Hospital among the Top 50 Children’s Hospitals in the country. This year, Ochsner Children's Hospital ranked in cardiology and heart surgery, orthopedics and gastroenterology and GI surgery by U.S. News & World Report.
Ochsner Children's Hospital has offered exceptional pediatric care for 80 years. Ochsner offers the only pediatric heart and liver transplant program in the state, serving over 100,000 children every year with 200 physicians specializing in more than 30 pediatric specialties and sub-specialties. Ochsner Children’s Hospital is located in New Orleans, with subspecialty clinics across Louisiana and in Mississippi.
U.S. News & World Report named Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans (OMC), including its Baptist and West Bank campuses, the Best Hospital in Louisiana for the 13th consecutive year. As part of the annual review, Ochsner and its partners also received more than 50 additional accolades by U.S. News, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice.
Ochsner Medical Center – New Orleans (OMC) is also ranked in the nation’s top 10% in six specialties: gastroenterology & GI surgery, geriatrics, orthopedics, urology, pulmonology & lung surgery, and neurology and neurosurgery.
OMC has distinguished “High Performing” ranking in the following procedures and conditions: aortic valve surgery (AVR), heart bypass surgery, congestive heart failure, colon cancer surgery, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), gynecological cancer, heart attack, hip replacement, kidney failure, knee replacement, lung cancer surgery, pneumonia, prostate cancer surgery, stroke, transcatheter aortic valve replacement and leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center (OLGMC), inclusive of Ochsner Lafayette General Surgical Hospital, Ochsner Lafayette General Orthopedic Hospital and Ochsner Cancer Center of Acadiana, ranked as the best hospital in Southwestern Louisiana.
OLGMC 2024-2025 Best Hospital ranking accolades include:
Slidell Memorial Hospital – East has received 2 “High Performing” rankings in procedures and conditions: kidney failure and pneumonia.
Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport Academic Medical Center has received 1 “High Performing” ranking in procedure and conditions in leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
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