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FAQs

What does LCMC mean in Louisiana? ›

LCMC Health System (formerly known as Louisiana Children's Medical Center) is a nonprofit network of healthcare providers in Southern Louisiana, based out of New Orleans. Members include academic centers, acute care facilities, and research hospitals.

NEW ORLEANS – On Sept. 27, the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled in favor of LCMC Health's purchase of three Tulane University-affiliated hospitals from HCA Healthcare.

We offer eight hospital locations: Children's Hospital, East Jefferson General Hospital, New Orleans East Hospital, Touro, University Medical Center New Orleans, West Jefferson Medical Center, Lakeview Hospital, and Lakeside Hospital.

Our full-time employee benefits package includes health, dental, and vision coverage. In addition, coverage can include medical spending accounts, disability insurance, no-cost life insurance, retirement plans, and more.

We believe, teach, and confess the Triune God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe, teach, and confess Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior and the gospel as the power of God for the salvation of all who believe in him.

Our medical school affiliations include: LSU Health New Orleans – LSU Health New Orleans exists to educate students, care for patients, and discover new treatments and advancements.

Since its origin the Ochsner Hospital and Clinic has had congruent interests and cooperative programs with Tulane. Ochsner Foundation Hospital and Clinic has a distinguished history of excellence and teaching and provides highly tertiary services as well as primary surgical care.

The hospital is jointly owned by LCMC Health and Tulane University (17.5%).

A year after purchasing the Tulane Medical Center, LCMC Health has completed its move of 500 Tulane doctors and medical residents, dozens of patients and the majority of the hospital's services to East Jefferson General Hospital.

Greg Feirn serves as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at LCMC Health, an eight-hospital system based in New Orleans that he spearheaded the creation of in 2009. As CEO, Greg provides strategic leadership to advance the system's mission of health, care, and education beyond extraordinary.

Is LCMC Health a nonprofit? ›

Louisiana Children's Medical Center (LCMC) is a New Orleans-based, non-profit health system with a mission: to provide the best possible care for every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond, and bring a little more heart and soul to healthcare along the way.

The hospital opened as a publicly owned service district hospital in 1971. It joined the LCMC Health family in 2020.

The Called-to-Care Scholars Program offers:

Up to 3 years tuition coverage at Chamberlain University to 90 students nationwide annually* A required 3-year employment pledge at LCMC Health after passing the NCLEX*

New Orleans, LA – LCMC Health recently announced affirmation by Standard & Poor's of the System's A+ credit rating to include a change in outlook from negative to stable.

Mission, vision, & values

Our vision is to be the trust leader in offering exceptional healthcare services to the New Orleans community by embodying our core values of providing a welcoming spirit, respect, and integrity.

Over the next 12-24 months, Tulane Medical Center will shift services to University Medical Center New Orleans and East Jefferson General Hospital. This will ultimately create more opportunities for medical residents to rotate at facilities across the region.

Today, LCMC Health has a workforce of nearly 18,000 employees, including over 2,800 physicians throughout the eight hospitals and more than 100 clinical and urgent care centers.

NOLA is short for New Orleans, Louisiana. Related words: Windy City.