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Institute of Medicine, Education and Spirituality at Ochsner
At Ochsner Health, we see caregiving as a foundational moral experience that defines our shared humanity. This connection strengthens our ability to serve our community and advance our shared mission. The Institute of Medicine, Education, and Spirituality (IMESO) helps build a culture where patients and caregivers find meaning and purpose.
Founded in 2011, IMESO started as a unique program to connect medicine with human values. For more than a decade, we have helped healthcare professionals remember why they chose this path: to care for others with compassion and character.
We support a healthy workplace where everyone, doctors, nurses, staff and patients, feels valued. By focusing on virtues like courage, wisdom, and kindness, we create a healing environment for the whole person.
Take time for reflection
A maxim is a personal rule for how to act, shaped by life experiences and universal values, that helps guide behavior, build virtue, and bring peace and balance to the spirit. Reflection is the ability to look inward, understand deeply, and grow into better ways of being and acting.
This book offers daily maxims for reflection. Print and fill out each page, considering its meaning and how it can guide your actions. Review your notes weekly to gain insights and create your own maxims.
Goodness expressed through caregiving
Caregiving is at the heart of medicine and of our shared humanity. It goes beyond procedures, technology, and efficiency to focus on compassion, empathy, and truly seeing each person as an individual. Through caregiving, healthcare becomes not just about treating illness, but about honoring dignity, easing suffering, and building meaningful human connections.
Growing together with purpose
At IMESO, we are committed to helping individuals and our organization grow in meaningful ways. For our people, we enhance character by encouraging the pursuit of virtues like love and truth. We express goodness by turning character into action and building deep, meaningful relationships at work. At the organizational level, we focus on education that teaches how to connect with purpose. We also lead research to study how workplace spirituality improves healing. Through these efforts, we strengthen Ochsner’s culture and values with a spirit of interconnectedness.
Connect with us
Discover how IMESO can help you find purpose and balance.
Contact information:
Fr. Anthony J. De Conciliis, CSC, D. Min. PhD
Vice President - IMESO: Spiritual Culture and Transformation
Institute of Medicine, Education, and Spirituality Ochsner Health
IMESO@ochsner.org
(504) 842-6941
