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Interim LSU Public Hospital Will Close Labor and Delivery Services

NEW ORLEANS – Jul. 21, 2010 – The Interim LSU Public Hospital (ILH), 2021 Perdido Street, New Orleans, La., will close its labor and delivery services beginning August 1, 2010, in part due to state budget cuts.  It will also close its nurseries, which include its Well Newborn Nursery, Intermediate Care Nursery and Neonatal Intensive Care Nursery.

LSU will move its labor and delivery services to the Family Birthing Center at Touro Infirmary, 1401 Foucher Street, in New Orleans.  Tulane will move its labor and delivery services to Tulane Lakeside Hospital, 4700 I-10 Service Road, in Metairie, La.
ILH will stop accepting patients on Wednesday, July 28, 2010.  Patients arriving that day at the ILH Emergency Department will be evaluated in the Emergency Department and, if stable, will be transferred after 5 p.m. on Wednesday, July 28, 2010.  If they are not stable, they will be taken upstairs for delivery.

In all circumstances, ILH will provide patients with the full array of appropriate services available throughout the length of their stay and in order to minimize any unnecessary transfers.

In 2009, ILH averaged just over two births a day.

“Our plan will provide the best services possible for our patients while addressing state budget cuts,” said Dr. Roxane Townsend, ILH Interim CEO.  “This plan will also allow the LSU and Tulane residency programs to maintain their high level of training.” 

LSU and Tulane OB/GYN programs will continue their outpatient clinics at 2100 Perdido Street.  Both schools will continue to offer both inpatient and outpatient gynecology services at ILH.

Contact:
Marvin McGraw
225.922.1424
mmcgra@lsuhsc.edu

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