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Primarily the service provides reconstructive plastic surgery, including chronic and acute surgical wound issues, pressure sores, post-bariatric body contouring and surgery of benign and malignant skin tumors. Plastic Surgery has clinics twice weekly and has block time twice weekly. There is attached a “Community Living Center” facility for long term care of VA patients. This recently completed hospital includes acute care hospital services (200 beds, ICU, MICU) and 6 operating rooms. Residents at LSU rotate through the Southeastern Louisiana Veteran’s Health System hospital in New Orleans. It has 16 ICU beds and a rehabilitation center.

LSU Plastic Surgery is the only active plastic surgery program in the facility.Ī burn center (dedicated unit) was started in 2018, under the direction of Dr. The hospital has an accredited cancer program and has a high volume of breast, head and neck, and skin cancer patients. The hospital houses the region’s only Level One trauma center (the Norman E McSwain Spirit of Charity Trauma Center), which has 2000 annual trauma admissions, with about 60% penetrating injuries.

The hospital is 2.3 million square feet and has 446 acute care beds and 19 (soon to be 26) Operating rooms, including a brand new outpatient surgical facility. It is managed by the Louisiana Children’s Health Corporation (LCMC) which also owns Children’s hospital and manages four acute care hospitals. The hospital occupies 4 square blocks ( 37 acres) of downtown New Orleans and is located across from the LSU Medical School and the new Veteran’s Administration Hospital. It opened in 2015 after an approximately $1.9 billion renovation. University Medical Center (UMC) is a new, modern replacement hospital for the old Charity Hospital.

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