Childrens Hospital

Mission:

To provide comprehensive pediatric healthcare which recognizes the special needs of children through excellence and continuous improvement of patient care, education, research, child advocacy and management.

Vision:

To be the regional medical center for children.

About Children's Hospital:

Children's Hospital is a 247-bed, not-for-profit medical center offering the most advanced pediatric care for children from birth to 21 years. With over 40 pediatric specialties and more than 400 physicians, it is the only full-service hospital exclusively for children in Louisiana and the Gulf South.

Children's Hospital recorded 200,834 patient visits in 2012, with children coming to us from all 64 parishes in Louisiana, 37 states and 6 foreign countries. In all, 60,557 children received care from our hospital last year.

Critical care is provided in the hospital's 36-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), 24-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), and 20-bed Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU).