CHILDREN’S HOSPITALS ANNOUNCE AFFILIATION TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF A GENERATION

Our Woman of the Lake Kids’s Well being and Kids’s Hospital New Orleans will associate to enhance entry to specialised pediatric well being companies and baby well being outcomes.  

BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — As we speak, Our Woman of the Lake Kids’s Well being and Kids’s Hospital New Orleans introduced an affiliation, starting a brand new and pivotal chapter the place the 2 main suppliers of pediatric healthcare in Louisiana will associate to enhance the well being of kids throughout Louisiana.

“Sharing a ardour for the well-being of kids, Our Woman of the Lake Kids’s Well being and Kids’s Hospital New Orleans have related histories of innovation, accomplishment, and a steadfast dedication to the youngsters and households throughout our communities,” stated Chuck Spicer, President of Our Woman of the Lake Well being. “By working collectively, we intention to make significant progress in enhancing baby well being outcomes, which right here in Louisiana are among the many worst within the nation. We consider {that a} more healthy future for our youngsters occurs collectively.”

This month, settlement phrases have been finalized to determine the framework by which the 2 kids’s hospitals will collaborate within the supply of pediatric well being companies. The affiliation, which takes impact January 1, 2023, creates alternatives for quick collaboration to enhance entry to and the standard of pediatric healthcare in Louisiana.

“Our affiliation provides new and thrilling alternatives for innovation,” stated John R. Nickens IV, President and Chief Govt Officer of Kids’s Hospital New Orleans. “We all know that we are able to do extra collectively. For instance, we can be part of forces within the recruitment of pediatric sub-specialists, retention of prime expertise, and our dedication to construct facilities of excellence for pediatric care, near house.” 

The pediatric affiliation is deliberate to develop over two phases, with section one centered on enhancing pediatric actions in Baton Rouge and surrounding parishes. Kids’s Hospital New Orleans might be accountable for day-to-day operations of Our Woman of the Lake Kids’s Well being via a co-managed method with committees comprised of board, doctor, and different leaders throughout the 2 organizations.

In section two, the organizations will work collectively to create a statewide community for kids’s specialty care, which is able to impression the life-long well being of kids and future generations of Louisianans.

“Throughout our establishments, now we have one of the best and brightest pediatric suppliers, nurses and different specialists working throughout Louisiana and the Gulf South every day to form a more healthy future for youths,” stated Greg Feirn, Chief Govt Officer of LCMC Well being, which manages Kids’s Hospital New Orleans. “The outcomes when our shared experience, sources, and dedication to the communities we serve come collectively are limitless.”

Lately, each Kids’s Hospital New Orleans and Our Woman of the Lake Kids’s Well being have made vital investments within the supply of pediatric well being companies. Our Woman of the Lake Kids’s Well being has served the youngsters of Louisiana and the southern area for greater than 60 years. The $230 million kids’s hospital, which opened in Baton Rouge in October 2019, provides a full spectrum of complete pediatric companies with greater than 300 pediatric suppliers together with 60 specialists and rising to serve the area’s want for specialised pediatric care. Moreover, the community contains hospital-based service in Monroe and Lafayette, in addition to at clinics all through the area. Our Woman of the Lake has supplied its personal ACGME accredited pediatric residency since 2010.

As Louisiana’s first freestanding kids’s hospital, Kids’s Hospital New Orleans has delivered skilled healthcare for kids throughout Louisiana and the Gulf South for greater than 65 years. With a lately accomplished $300 million campus transformation, Kids’s Hospital New Orleans supplies the best stage of pediatric care within the State, backed by greater than 600 pediatric-trained suppliers and specialists. Kids’s Hospital New Orleans additionally provides a vibrant educational medical group via partnerships with LSU Well being New Orleans and Tulane College College of Drugs, the one pediatric facility in Louisiana to include two pediatric medical packages underneath one roof.

“Collectively, we’re dedicated to main the cost to construct a more healthy future for youths by enhancing entry to specialised pediatric healthcare companies, with the shared goal of enhancing well being outcomes now,” stated Richard Vath, MD, Chief Govt Officer of Franciscan Missionaries of Our Woman Well being System, which owns Our Woman of the Lake Kids’s Well being. “By combining our sources and capabilities, we can have exponential alternatives to amplify the well being aims of our respective affected person populations. The selections we’re making in the present day will imply more healthy Louisiana residents tomorrow.”

Within the coming months, the organizations will work to prioritize alternatives that can function the muse for the phased method of the affiliation.

About Our Woman of the Lake Kids’s Well being

Our Woman of the Lake Kids’s Well being is a collaborative, coordinated and child-focused statewide well being community that gives sufferers with extra entry to physicians and suppliers particularly educated to care for kids. The community contains hospital-based companies in Baton Rouge (Our Woman of the Lake Kids’s Hospital), Monroe (St. Francis Pediatrics) and Lafayette (Our Woman of Lourdes Ladies’s & Kids’s Hospital) in addition to pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists at clinic areas all through these areas. The brand new Our Woman of the Lake Kids’s Hospital opened in Baton Rouge in October 2019. Study extra at ololchildrens.org.

About Kids’s Hospital New Orleans

Kids’s Hospital is a 267-bed, non-profit educational pediatric medical middle that provides complete healthcare companies, together with over 40 pediatric specialties, delivered only for kids. With greater than 600 pediatric suppliers, Kids’s provides a complete array of pediatric healthcare companies in Louisiana and the Gulf South. Along with its foremost campus situated in New Orleans, the hospital operates a community of specialty clinics throughout Louisiana, together with in Covington, Baton Rouge, Alexandria, Lafayette, and Diamondhead, MS. Kids’s provides major care companies at 12 handy areas and remotely by way of its Digital Look after Children program. Kids’s is a proud member of LCMC Well being, a Louisiana-based, not-for-profit hospital system which additionally contains New Orleans East Hospital, Touro, College Medical Heart New Orleans, West Jefferson Medical Heart, and East Jefferson Common Hospital. Study extra at chnola.org 

SOURCE LCMC Well being