Lake Charles Memorial Health System serves southwest Louisiana via three community hospitals, over 2,700 employees and 407 licensed beds. The system has expanded access, advanced innovation and maintained an unwavering focus on patient-centered care. Now the area’s largest healthcare employer and second-largest employer overall, the system provides care across a five-parish region while training future physicians through its family medicine residency in partnership with LSU Health New Orleans. The health system has received national recognition for excellence and safety, including Newsweek’s “Best-In-State Hospital”, CareChex top 10% rankings in cardiac and orthopedic care, and accreditation from the Commission on Cancer and American College of Surgeons. In recent years, the system has expanded with new specialty centers and mobile care units, introduced a new Epic EHR system with a $50 million investment and continued building out its robotic-assisted surgery program, which now includes Excelsius GPS and ION lung biopsy technology. It is also the first in the nation to earn transcatheter valve certification from the American College of Cardiology and remains the region’s only trauma center.
