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Interim LSU Public Hospital
Fiscal Year 2008

Resources

2,446 employees

Total Collections: $339.4 million
State General Fund: $48.743 million
Medicaid: $68.296 million
Uncompensated Care: $154.441 million
Medicare: $21.176 million
Medicare Cost Reports: $6.177 million
Commercial/Private Pay: $23.164 million
Misc. Self Generated $17.425 million

Estimated economic impact

$713.2 million in overall business activity (Factor of 2.12 based on a Jul 2007 report “Hospitals and the Louisiana Economy,” prepared for the Louisiana Hospital Association by Dr. James A. Richardson, Alumni Professor of Economics at Louisiana State University)

Patient Population

Approximately 81,621 (between 7/1/06 – 6/30/08)

Capacity

386 licensed beds
217 adult/pediatric staffed beds
       (including ICU)
  38 psychiatric staffed beds
    5 neonatal ICU staffed beds

  13 nursery bassinets
Inpatient Admissions

10,417 adult/pediatric admissions
     599 psychiatric admissions
     114 neonatal ICU admissions

     811 nursery admissions
Inpatient Days

55,500 adult/pediatric inpatient days
            (including ICU)
  6,782 psychiatric inpatient days
  1,744 neonatal ICU inpatient days
  2,289 nursery inpatient days

Outpatients

147,216 outpatient encounters
   46,628 ED encounters

   71,505  outpatient clinic visits


Live Births

875 births

Residency Programs

Approximately 260 residents and fellows in the following programs:

Allergy, immunology
Cardiology
Cornea
Gastroenterology
Musculoskeletal
Neonatal-perinatal
Nephrology
Pediatric Neurology
Pulmonary and critical care
Retina
Rheumatology
Dentistry
Dermatology
Emergency medicine
Family medicine
Internal medicine
Internal / Emergency medicine
Medicine/Pediatrics
Neurology
Neurology Fellows
Obstetrics and gynecology
Ophthalmology
Oral Surgery
Orthopedic surgery
Pathology
Pediatrics
Physical medicine / Rehabilitation
Psychiatry
Psychiatry - Child and adolescent
Surgery
Surgery, Plastic
Anesthesiology
Urology
Allergy, immunology
Cardiology
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology
Hematology and oncology
Infectious disease
Nephrology
Pulmonary and critical care
Anesthesiology
Dermatology
Internal medicine
Neurological surgery
Neurology
Obstetrics and gynecology
Orthopedic surgery
Pediatrics
Psychiatry
Psychiatry, Child
Surgery
Urology
Internal medicine

 

Nursing and Allied Health Training

(approximately 670 students)

RN students (Delgado, LSU, Holy Cross)
Paramedic (EMT) students (Delgado, LSU)
LPN students (Delgado, A&G)
Pharmacy students (Xavier)
Nurses Anesthesia students (LSU)
Occupational Therapy students (LSU)

Partnerships

Louisiana Highway Safety Commission:  Louisiana Passenger Safety Task Force (grant)             
DHH:  Ryan White Title III AIDS Drug Assistance Program 
Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency:  Organ Donations
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation: Excess Skin Donations
Southern Eye Bank: Corneal Transplants
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, New Orleans: Discharge Planning and Patient Support
Algiers Charter Schools
Baptist Community Ministries
Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church
Jackson Barracks
Kellogg Foundation
Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI)
Metropolitan Human Services District
Office of Public Health
Operation Blessing
Recovery School District
School Health Connection