BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The LSU Health Care Services Division is seeking information on the locations of patients who were evacuated from the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans (Charity Hospital and University Hospital campuses) over the past several days. Patients transferred from these facilities were transported by other agencies under emergency conditions to hospitals, shelters and other sites in Louisiana and elsewhere, and the Medical Center of Louisiana is unable to answer inquiries from families about the current location of these patients.
Hospitals, shelters, long term care facilities and any other facilities that have received patients transferred from MCLNO's Charity and University Hospital campuses are asked to call the LSU hospital headquarters in Baton Rouge at 800-735-1185, or to fax a patient list to 225-922-1502 as soon as possible.
Patients should not call this number with inquiries. As soon as a partial list is available, it will be posted on a website (http://www.lsuhsc.edu ) and a toll free number will be made available for families to call.
Some patients may be in temporary locations and will be transferred to hospitals later. Hospitals and other receiving facilities are requested to notify the LSU hospital headquarters as transfers occur.
About the LSU Health Care Services Division
The LSU Health Care Services Division hospital and clinic system is the largest provider of health care in Louisiana, with more than 1.2 million patient visits annually to 350 outpatient clinics, and almost 46,000 admissions to eight acute care public hospitals. With an annual budget in excess of $900 million, the system operates 1,100 beds, with a total staff of 8,000+ employees. Residency programs are located in five of the eight hospitals with approximately 1,200 medical and surgical residents and fellows. Over 4,000 nurses and other allied health professionals also train in these hospitals.
NOTE: Phone lines in the area have been intermittently available. Please continue trying to reach us at the numbers in this release.
LSU Health Care Services DivisionCONTACT: Marvin McGraw of LSU Health Care Services Division,+1-225-922-1424, or +1-225-279-4744
Web site: http://www.lsuhsc.edu/