Facility profile

Ochsner Medical Center

New Orleans, LA

Magnet® recognizedTeaching hospitalNICU767 bedsMaternityCath labTransplantRobotic surgery

Clinical focus

Specialties staffed here

Cath Lab CT Tech ER IR Tech Labor and Delivery MRI Tech NICU Oncology Operating Room Radiation Therapist Respiratory Therapist Surgical Tech Ultrasound Tech

Facility questions

It's the 767-bed flagship of Ochsner Health near New Orleans — a tertiary referral center where RNs work transplant, cardiac, oncology, and complex surgical units; it's been named the best hospital in Louisiana by U.S. News for over a decade.

It's a five-time ANCC Magnet recipient — a level of recognition only a small fraction of U.S. hospitals reach.

Its three centers of excellence — the Multi-Organ Transplant Center, the Heart & Vascular Institute, and the Cancer Institute — anchor the specialty units, and all of Ochsner Health's heart transplants are performed here.

Ochsner is not the region's designated trauma center (University Medical Center New Orleans holds the Level I); its acuity comes from transplant, advanced heart failure, and complex surgical care, including the SynCardia total artificial heart.

Epic, which Ochsner Health has used since 2012 (its patient portal is MyOchsner).