Ochsner Promises Upgrades For North Louisiana Hospitals

Ochsner Health System will make improvements to the safety-net hospitals in north Louisiana under its new management deal to operate the facilities, the head of the health care company said this week as the oversight contracts were officially signed.

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Ochsner Health System will make improvements to the safety-net hospitals in north Louisiana under its new management deal to operate the facilities, the head of the health care company said this week as the oversight contracts were officially signed.

Operating rooms will be renovated, technology will be upgraded and equipment will be modernized as part of the management switch, Ochsner President and CEO Warner Thomas said as he appeared in Shreveport with Gov. John Bel Edwards and other officials to celebrate the deal.

A new company jointly controlled by Louisiana State University and Ochsner will take control of the state-owned hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe on Oct. 1. The facilities care for the poor and uninsured and help train LSU medical students.