Ochsner Children’s Hospital is building a new 343 thousand square foot facility with a large donation from New Orleans Saints Owner Gayle Benson. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Butch Adolph says this will help advance the growing need to help children throughout the region.
“We literally just don’t have the space to take some of the patients that we get called about to take in transfer but the other major benefit of this will be is it will allow us to really consolidate all of the pediatric care into one facility.”
The donation will come from the Gayle and Tom Benson Charitable Foundation, a private foundation founded in 2007 to make a positive impact.
Adolph says the new five-story structure helps continue to grow its pediatrics program and treat critical conditions such as pediatric heart and liver transplants. He says the placement of departments is easily accessible to speed up time-sensitive procedures.
“The caths lab which are used for a lot of our complicated congenital heart surgery patients are also be immediately adjacent to the ICU and to the operating room so they’ll all be much closer together. So we’ll have bigger capacity.”
The new pediatric cardiovascular unit will expand from 12 to 20 beds. The 14-bed intensive care unit will expand to 20 beds.
Ranked the number one hospital for kids in Louisiana, the current hospital cares for more than 100 thousand children every year. Adolph says a new facility will help meet the needs of more families who want their children to receive care at Ochsner…
“We were very happy when she decided to make a donation to help us make that reality a little bit faster.”
Ochsner Medical Center-New Orleans expects to break ground around the summer of 2024 and open its doors in late 2027.
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