About Us
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System is the leading health innovator in Louisiana and Mississippi and a regional destination for healthcare access. We bring together the top clinicians, advanced technology and innovative research to ensure our patients receive the highest quality and most comprehensive care possible.
This commitment is grounded in a history more than 100 years old but reflective of our forward-thinking strategic vision aimed at transforming healthcare.
As a nonprofit, mission-focused Catholic healthcare ministry, we provide a compassionate circle of care to everyone while giving special attention to those most in need. The care we administer is driven by listening to our patients and putting their needs first. Through listening, we can truly understand what’s going on, hear what the patient’s goals are, and most importantly, discover together how we can help.
Since our founding, we’ve grown to become one of the largest health systems in the region, providing care to almost half of Louisiana, and serving Mississippi's largest metropolitan area in Jackson.
Within the regions we serve, we operate major hospitals as well as dozens of community clinics and specialty centers to care for patients with a wide range of illnesses and health needs. Because of our size and strategic partnerships with local organizations, we can pool resources, share costs, learn from each other and be more efficient, thereby accelerating our ability to improve care and solve challenges.
Following in the footsteps of the Franciscan Sisters and looking to the future of our healthcare ministry, we chart our course by “going where we are called.”
The Reach of Our Healthcare Ministry
- Our Lady of the Angels Health
- Our Lady of the Lake Health
- Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health
- Our Lady of Lourdes Health
- Our Lady of Lourdes Children’s Health
- St. Dominic Health
- St. Francis Health
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Our Lady of the Angels Health
- Serves Washington Parish
- Became a sponsored hospital of Franciscan Missionaries of Our Health System in 2014
- 92 licensed beds at Our Lady of the Angels Hospital
- 503 full-time employees
- 336 active medical staff
- 22,130 emergency room visits
- 1 urgent care clinic
- An 8,000-square-foot expansion of the hospital in 2015
* Numbers are for the fiscal year 2020-2021
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Our Lady of the Lake Health
- Founded in 1923, serving the greater Baton Rouge region
- 974 licensed beds and the area’s only Level I Trauma Center
- 4,375 full-time employees within its hospitals
- 1,754 active medical staff
- 201,100 emergency room visits
- Treats 38,000 inpatients and 820,000 outpatients annually
- Two free-standing emergency rooms: Our Lady of the Lake Livingston and Our Lady of the Lake North
- A network of 19 urgent care clinics
- Includes Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Institute, Assumption Community Hospital, Our Lady of the Lake Ascension and Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University
* Numbers are for the fiscal year 2020-2021
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Our Lady of the Lake Children's Health
- Opened a new children’s hospital in 2019. The 360,000-square-foot facility is a more than $230 million investment in children’s health with a 30-bed intensive care unit, 40 medical/surgical in-patient beds and a hematology/oncology floor with 30 in-patient specialized beds
- 24/7 pediatric emergency room and one of only two 24/7 pediatric intensive care units in Louisiana
- More than 40 pediatricians and more than 60 pediatric specialists who live and work in Baton Rouge supporting the health of the community
- One of only eight outpatient St. Jude Affiliate clinics in the nation
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Our Lady of Lourdes Health
- Founded in 1949, serving the Acadiana region
- 342 beds across three inpatient campuses: Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center, Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s and Children’s Hospital and Our Lady of Lourdes Heart Hospital
- 1,982 full-time employees
- 859 active medical staff
- 8,156 emergency room visits
- Full-service emergency center in Scott, multiple clinics and a primary care physician network
- 7 Lourdes Urgent Care centers
* Numbers are for the fiscal year 2020-2021
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Our Lady of Lourdes Children's Health
- Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital in Lafayette is the only hospital in the region that specializes in the care of women and children
- The hospital offers the area’s only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Level III Surgical Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
- Pediatricians and pediatric specialists live and work in Acadiana offering same-day and next day appointments, in-person and virtual visits (available until midnight), and easy online scheduling through MyChart
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St. Dominic Health
- Serves the Central Mississippi region
- Originally established through the Dominican Sisters of Springfield, Illinois, in 1946. Became a sponsored hospital of Franciscan Missionaries of Our Health System in 2019
- 571 licensed beds
- 3,600 full-time employees
- 741 active medical staff
- 46,429 emergency room visits
- 16 urgent care clinics
- Includes St. Dominic-Jackson Memorial Hospital as well as an extensive network of primary and specialty care clinics; outreach services including St. Dominic Community Clinic, the Care-A-Van mobile unit, and a fitness and aquatic center; St. Dominic Foundation, and St. Catherine’s Village, a life care community
* Numbers are for the fiscal year 2020-2021
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St. Francis Health
- Founded in 1913, serving the Northeast region
- 317 licensed beds at St. Francis Medical Center
- 1,195 full-time employees
- 315 active medical staff
- 2 urgent care clinics
- 57,715 emergency room visits
- Includes St. Francis Medical Center, St. Francis Community Health Center, St. Francis P&S Surgery & Heart Center, and St. Francis Medical Group
- The area’s only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Level III Obstetrician Unit
- Offers a designated Level III Trauma Center, a Graduate Medical Education Program, Accredited Chest Pain Center, Accredited Primary Stroke Center and Centers of Excellence in the areas of bariatric surgery, minimally invasive surgery, robotic surgery, minimally invasive gynecology, breast health and specialized anesthesia
* Numbers are for the fiscal year 2024