With the eventual closure of Earl K. Long Medical Center, part of the state’s public hospital system, low-income patients would be shifted to urgent-care and outpatient clinics and to inpatient services at Our Lady of the Lake.
LSU has agreed to spend at least $100 million on capital improvements to upgrade inpatient services. Our Lady of the Lake would accommodate medical residents now at Earl K. Long.
LSU had previously been planning to build a new $300 million hospital to replace Earl K. Long.
Read the Times-Picayune’s report on Earl K. Long Medical Center.
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