Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans
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The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans is located in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the home of six schools (including one of two LSU medical schools), twelve Centers of Excellence, and two patient care clinics. Due to Hurricane Katrina, the School of Dentistry was temporarily located in Baton Rouge.[1] It resumed operations in New Orleans in September 2007.[2] As a state school, it mostly accepts only residents of the state of Louisiana with the exception of combined M.D./Ph.D. students and also children of alumni.
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[edit] History
The LSU Health Sciences Center School of Medicine was founded in 1931 commissioned by Huey Long.[3] It was originally located at 1542 Tulane Avenue, adjacent to the then-rebuilt Charity Hospital building, which was completed in 1939.
The School of Graduate Studies was established in 1965, followed by the School of Dentistry in 1966, the School of Nursing in 1968, and the School of Allied Health Professions in 1970. The School of Public Health was founded in 2003.[4]
Because of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, LSUHSC-NO has suffered the drastically lowered capacity of its two teaching hospitals, Charity Hospital, and University Hospital. LSUHSC-NO went 15 months without the use of either hospital, forced to set up a trauma center in a vacant shopping center. Although Charity Hospital has been deemed unsalvagable by LSU officials, University Hospital was reopened November 20, 2006, after extensive renovation.
[edit] Organization
[edit] Schools
- School of Allied Health Professions
- School of Dentistry
- School of Graduate Studies
- School of Medicine
- School of Nursing
- School of Public Health
[edit] Centers of Excellence
- Alcohol and Drug Abuse Center
- Cardiovascular Center
- Center for Molecular and Human Genetics
- Center for Oral and Craniofacial Biology
- Center on Aging
- Epilepsy Center
- Ernest N. Morial Asthma, Allergy, and Respiratory Disease Center
- The Gene Therapy Program
- LSU Eye Center
- Neurosciences Center
- The Research Institute for Children
- Stanley S. Scott Cancer Center
[edit] LSUHSC Teaching Hospital
[edit] LSUHSC Clinics
[edit] Sources
- ^ "LSU School of Dentistry Campus Update April 5, 2006". http://www.lsusd.lsuhsc.edu/Katina%20Update%20April%202006.htm. Retrieved on 2006-09-11.
- ^ LSU School of Dentistry
- ^ See Alton Ochsner.
- ^ LSUHSC. Timeline.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans Official Website
- New Orleans Campus Operation Returning Home
- History of the LSU School of Medicine
