The growing affiliation will focus on specialty pediatric services.
Children's Hospital New Orleans and North Oaks Health System have launched an affiliation to expand pediatric services in the suburbs north of the Crescent City.
The affiliation builds on existing services provided by both health systems in Tangipahoa Parish and the Northshore region, and which are provided now by Children's at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond, including neonatology, pediatric hospitalist coverage and pediatric cardiology services.
The expanded affiliation will explore new expansion opportunities for Children's Hospital specialty pediatric services at North Oaks, which the two systems say willl improve access for patients and their families in the area north of New Orleans.
Michele Kidd Sutton, president and CEO of North Oaks, says the affiliation can "fulfill our mission of improving lives, every time, with each touch for children of the Northshore."
"We intend to build upon our existing relationship and enhance our pediatric service line through the addition of pediatric subspecialists and development of new pediatric services at North Oaks Medical Center and in the surrounding communities across multiple phases," she says.
"We intend to build upon our existing relationship and enhance our pediatric service line through the addition of pediatric subspecialists and development of new pediatric services at North Oaks Medical Center and in the surrounding communities across multiple phases."
In addition to managing North Oaks' pediatric service line, Children's Hospital will take on staff and management of pediatric hospitalist services at North Oaks that support a pediatric acute care unit and newborn examinations, along with neonatology and other sub-specialty services to support the NICU.
Hammond-based North Oaks includes a 330-bed acute care hospital, a Level II trauma center, a stroke center, a 27-bed medical rehab hospital, a freestanding surgical center, two diagnostic centers and the most comprehensive multispecialty provider clinic in the region.
Children's recently completed $300 million in capital improvements on its 257-bed, academic pediatric medical center in New Orleans. The system has partnership with LSU Health New Orleans and Tulane University School of Medicine and operates outpatient clinics across Louisiana and the Gulf South, including 12 primary care clinics and nine specialty clinics from Lake Charles to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
“By collaborating with Children's Hospital New Orleans, we believe we can fulfill our mission of improving lives, every time, with each touch for children of the Northshore." ”
Michele Kidd Sutton, president / CEO, North Oaks Health System.
John Commins is a content specialist and online news editor for HealthLeaders, a Simplify Compliance brand.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
The affiliation builds on existing services which are provided now by Children's at North Oaks Medical Center, including neonatology, pediatric hospitalist coverage and pediatric cardiology services.
The expanded affiliation will explore new opportunities for Children's specialty pediatric services at North Oaks, which the two systems say willl improve access for patients and their families in the area north of New Orleans.
Children's will staff and manage pediatric hospitalist services at North Oaks that support an acute care unit and newborn examinations, along with neonatology and other sub-specialty services to support the NICU.