Ochsner Health is a system that delivers health to the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South with a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate.
SHREVEPORT, La. – Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport continues to invest in its St. Mary Medical Center by opening an OB/GYN Specialists clinic. The new clinic, located at One St. Mary Place in Shreveport, La., is nearly 20,000 square feet and has 26 exam rooms, two treatment rooms and two ultrasound rooms.
The OB/GYN Specialists, consists of six physicians and three nurse practitioners. The new providers, Dr. Beth Geneux, Dr. John Haynes, Dr. Kristi Michael, Dr. Darrell Sandifer, Dr. Stephanie Sockrider, Dr. Kristy Waltman, Aimee Smiley, NP, LaToya Gipson, NP and Holly Johnson, NP, will begin seeing patients on November 3.
The group is an addition to its existing OB/GYN team. Ochsner LSU Health also has 10 OB/GYN physicians and two nurse practitioners whose clinic practice is located at 1602 Kings Highway and women’s and children’s inpatient services are at its St. Mary Medical Center.
The new clinic, along with a 6,000 square foot café and common area currently undergoing renovation, represents an additional $6 million investment at its St. Mary Medical Center and is coupled with landscaping improvements and signage additions for the entire campus.
Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - St. Mary Medical Center also includes a 122-bed hospital and several targeted care centers, including a comprehensive diagnostic and imaging center, ambulatory surgery center, and neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics and sports medicine, sleep, gastroenterology, and outpatient child psychiatry clinics.
Since its inception on October 1, 2018, Ochsner LSU Health has heavily focused on increasing access to healthcare adding 180 new physicians to its system, expanding to several new locations including its St. Mary Medical Center, completing a major electronic health record upgrade, implementing several leading telemedicine programs, beginning virtual visits, and undergoing major renovations at its Academic Medical Center on Kings Highway in Shreveport.
For more information about Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport go to www.ochsnerlsuhs.org.
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On Oct. 1, 2018, Ochsner Health (Ochsner) and LSU Health Shreveport jointly formed Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport to oversee and coordinate activities between the health sciences center and the healthcare delivery system in Shreveport and Monroe, La. Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport is a public-private partnership with a vision to improve health and well-being of its communities, access to care, quality, and facilities, expand patient-centered technology, grow the medical school, and enhance research in North Louisiana by building on the strengths of Ochsner and LSU Health Shreveport. Under the new structure, Ochsner brings their nationally-recognized expertise to the management of operations for partner hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe, clinics and the clinical activity of the LSUHS Faculty Group. LSU will continue to successfully oversee the LSUHS School of Medicine, School of Allied Health Professions, School of Graduate Studies, Graduate Medical Education, and research initiatives.
Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport is a three-hospital system that includes North Louisiana’s only Level 1 Trauma Center at its 452-bed hospital and its St. Mary Medical Center in Shreveport, La. The organization also operates the Monroe Medical Center, a 244-bed hospital in Monroe, La. With more than 4,000 employees and the Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport Physician Group of approximately 500 physicians, Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport serves more than 140,000 patients with more than 625,000 visits annually.