Ochsner Health System, Louisiana’s largest nonprofit, academic health care system, opened a new location in the NASA/Michoud Assembly facility in March of 2018, offering primary care, physical therapy and rehabilitation on site.
It also offers specialty services including cardiology, neurology and diabetes education via its telemedicine program — where patients and specialists are able to communicate virtually through a computer system. It accepts more than 40 types of insurance.
The expanded location fills the need for healthcare and joins other amenities on-site at the NASA/Michoud Assembly Facility; it not only supports the other on-site tenants, but also the New Orleans East community.
Sarah Roberts, VP of Primary Care and Urgent Care at Ochsner Health System, said that this new location has enhanced the quality of life in the area by providing convenient access to quality healthcare, which is “key to not only building but also maintaining a healthy community here in New Orleans East.”
Currently, there are three full-time Ochsner employees working at Ochsner Health Center – Michoud.
Ochsner is also the only hospital in the state recognized by the U.S. News & World Report as a “Best Hospital” across three specialty categories.
Roberts notes that patients in the East, like patients across the state, also have the benefit of Ochsner’s electronic health record system, Epic. The system securely shares patient information with the purpose of achieving the most satisfactory results with a higher level of coordinated care between specialists and patients.
The new location in the East also offers convenience through its online portal, MyOchsner, which allows patients to make appointments and access test results and healthcare resources online and communicate directly with physicians.
The clinic also opens early (7:30 a.m.) and offers same-day and next-day appointments to accommodate patients’ busy schedules.
For more information or to make an appointment, please visit www.ochsner.org/michoud or call 504-703-8940.
