dedication, mission, vision

Earl K. Long Medical Center (EKLMC) is a licensed, 175-bed, acute care hospital providing healthcare for patients from East Baton Rouge Parish and the seven surrounding parishes of Ascension, West Baton Rouge, East and West Feliciana, Iberville, Livingston and Point Coupee.

EKLMC provides quality care regardless of a patient’s ability to pay and serves as a teaching hospital for graduate medical education, nursing and allied healthcare professionals.

EKLMC received the Silver Level 2009 Louisiana Hospital Quality award from eQHealth Solutions for improving the quality of healthcare given to EKLMC patients. EKLMC actively engages in improving care in the areas of acute mycardial infarction (heart attack), heart failure, pneumonia and surgical care.

EKLMC exceeded the national and regional averages on an annual basis in the HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) survey on inpatient perspectives on the general quality of hospital services. EKLMC excelled in pain management communication with nurses and doctors, communication about medication, responsiveness of hospital staff, a quiet and clean hospital environment, discharge information, overall patient satisfaction, patients’ willingness to recommend the hospital and overall patient rating of the hospital.

EKLMC has outpatient services for women’s health, family practice, internal medicine, surgery, orthopedics, oral surgery, HIV, pediatrics, dermatology, rheumatology and other subspecialties, and inpatient services for obstetrics, internal and emergency medicine and surgery.

EKLMC also provides primary medical care at the North Baton Rouge Clinic, LSU/EKLMC South Baton Rouge Clinic, the Leo S. Butler Community Center and the Mid-City Clinic.

EKLMC is in partnership with the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, providing healthcare in six school-based clinics for schools throughout the region.

EKLMC participates in the LSU Disease Management Program, which manages chronic diseases according to nationally accepted, evidence-based guidelines. The American Lung Association in Louisiana named the EKLMC Asthma Program an Asthma Center of Excellence. The EKLMC Asthma Program was the first program in the entire State of Louisiana with this designation.

EKLMC is accredited by the Joint Commission, the nation’s leading independent healthcare ratings organization.

CORE VALUES

In order to ensure a healthier community, Earl K. Long Medical Center has adopted the core values of access, advocacy, respect, knowledge, excellence, and quality as the roots of our organizational philosophy.

ACCESS to care for all citizens in the community regardless of their
ability to pay.

RESPECT of patients’ personal values and belief systems.

ADVOCACY speaking up for those who lack the resources to speak for
themselves.

KNOWLEDGE providing necessary information that allows patients to make
informed decisions regarding their care.

EXCELLENCE in the educational environment of all physicians, nurses, and
allied health personnel in this facility.

QUALITY do the right thing; in the right place; at the right time; for all
the right reasons.

Dr. Roxane Townsend, Interim CEO