Facilities

Earl K. Long Medical Center

Completed in 1968, Earl K. Long Medical Center provides quality medical care to over one million people of East Baton Rouge Parish and its surrounding eight parishes, regardless of their ability to pay.

Through affiliation with the LSU School of Medicine-New Orleans, Earl K. Long Medical Center serves as a 257-bed public teaching hospital for physician education and provides support training in nursing and the allied heath care professions.

The hospital's staff also provides support to the community through health education and preventive services.

The faculty of Earl K. Long Medical Center teaches medical students and emergency medicine, internal medicine, dermatology, obstetrics/gynecology, oral surgery, orthopedics, ophthalmology, pediatrics and surgery residents. Graduates of LSU training programs are found in all medical subspecialties throughout Louisiana.

Since 1992, when Earl K. Long Medical Center added emergency medicine as one of its home-based resident training programs, campus facilities have been expanded to include the Emergency Medicine Residency Program Education Center, an early intervention clinic for treatment of HIV infected patients, a medicine clinic and an eye clinic and recently expanded their Pediatric Clinic.

Earl K. Long Medical Center offers students and residents a large, public, tertiary-teaching hospital with a friendly, supportive atmosphere. Resident training and service to our community are Earl K. Long Medical Center's highest priorities.

Baton Rouge General Medical Center

Baton Rouge General Medical Center is a 448-bed Community hospital with two locations, hundreds of doctors and nurses, and a system-wide commitment to exceptional patient care.

Baton Rouge General Medical Center was the first hospital in Baton Rouge and, since its founding in 1900, it has achieved many milestones in providing health care services to the community. These milestones include: the first open heart surgery in the area, the first hospital-based cancer treatment center, the first pacemaker implantation in the Gulf South, the opening of the first Burn Center in a four-state area, the first chemical dependency unit in the area and the development of the first multi-distribution system (MDS) linking a patient's critical care information with the physician's office or home.

The hospital's distinguished programs include the Regional Burn Center, a cardiac program with a history of dramatic advances in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac disease, a state-of-the-art oncology program supported by the city's only hospital-based radiation center, as well as programs for diabetes management, neuroscience, occupational health services, and rehabilitation services. The Baton Rouge General also operates a School of Nursing and School of Radiologic Technology.

In 2004, Baton Rouge General received top honors as Louisiana's Hospital of the Year for nurse excellence by the Louisiana State Nurses Association for the third consecutive year.  Most recently, Baton Rouge General was awarded the nation's Top Leadership Team in Health Care by Healthleaders Magazine.

Residents will rotate at both Baton Rouge General Medical Center - Mid City and Baton Rouge General Medical Center -Bluebonnet.

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center is the largest private medical center in Louisiana, with 763 licensed beds. Opened in 1923, the Lake has grown from its modest beginning to a major player in healthcare, with an outreach spanning geographical and political boundaries. In a given year, Our Lady of the Lake treats approximately 25,000 patients in the hospital, and serves about 350,000 persons through outpatient locations with the assistance of almost 900 physicians and 3,000 staff members.

Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital opened its doors in 1945, just in time for the nation's baby boom era. As our community and its need for specialized pediatric care have grown, so have our services. Today, as part of the largest private hospital in Louisiana, The Childrenís Hospital at Our Lady of the Lake offers comprehensive pediatric services, including doctors in over a dozen pediatric subspecialties, which few facilities in the region can match

In 1994, one-third of all emergency room patients at the Lake were under the age of 18. Because of this tremendous community need, they responded by adding board-certified pediatric emergency care physicians to their staff and constructing a separate children's emergency treatment area. Today, the Childrenís Emergency Room sees more than 25,000 pediatric cases each year and is open to serve the community twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.

EM-1 and EM-2 residents will spend a month each year rotating in the Pediatric Emergency Room (PER)

Emergency Medicine Residency Program Education Center

Administrative offices for the faculty and residents are located in a separate building adjacent to the emergency department at Earl K. Long Medical Center.

This administrative area encompasses 6,250 square feet, including offices for the faculty, chief residents, residency coordinator, a departmental library, and a large classroom. The classroom is the site of the residents' weekly didactic teaching sessions.

The classrooms are also utilized for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program's monthly life support education courses.

Multiple computers as well as state-of-the-art audio-visual aids are dedicated to residents' use. Faculty members and residents have access to extensive secretarial support.

The inter-departmental library has over 400 volumes and numerous computer based medical references and resources.

Additional administrative, faculty offices and library/conference space is also available with associated secretarial support at the Baton Rouge General Medical Center.