Hospitals

downtown rotationS

UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER - NEW ORLEANS

University Medical Center (UMC) is a new, modern replacement hospital for the old Charity Hospital.  It opened in 2015 after an approximately $1.9 billion renovation.

The hospital occupies 4 square blocks ( 37 acres) of downtown New Orleans and is located across from the LSU Medical School and the new Veteran’s Administration Hospital.

It is managed by the Louisiana Children’s Health Corporation (LCMC) which also owns Children’s hospital and manages four acute care hospitals. 

The hospital is 2.3 million square feet and has 446 acute care beds and 19 (soon to be 26) Operating rooms, including a brand new outpatient surgical facility. The ER has 56 Exam rooms.

The hospital houses the region’s only Level One trauma center (the Norman E McSwain Spirit of Charity Trauma Center), which has 2000 annual trauma admissions, with about 60% penetrating injuries.

The hospital has an accredited cancer program and has a high volume of breast, head and neck, and skin cancer patients.  LSU Plastic Surgery is the only active plastic surgery program in the facility. Drs. Babineaux and Stanley currently serve as Service-Line Chiefs at UMC. Drs. Dupin, Boraski, and Womac also have weekly clinics at UMC and staff our complex recon cases.

A burn center (dedicated unit) was started in 2018, under the direction of Dr. Jeffery Carter, MD.  It has 16 ICU beds and a rehabilitation center.

Veteran Affairs Hospital

Residents at LSU rotate through the Southeastern Louisiana Veteran’s Health System hospital in New Orleans.  This recently completed hospital includes acute care hospital services (200 beds, ICU, MICU) and 6 operating rooms.  There is attached a “Community Living Center” facility for long term care of VA patients.

Plastic Surgery has clinics twice weekly and has block time twice weekly. Primarily the service provides reconstructive plastic surgery, including chronic and acute surgical wound issues, pressure sores, post-bariatric body contouring and surgery of benign and malignant skin tumors.

The rotation is a one-on-one mentorship style rotation with our program director, Dr. Dupin. The resident experience emphasizes progressive responsibility both in the operating room and in surgical planning and postoperative care.

The service was initiated in December of 2019 and has grown rapidly.  The hospital is located across the street from our major teaching hospital, UMC.

Childrens hospital of New Orleans

Children's Hospital of New Orleans (CHNOLA) is the largest free-standing children's hospital in Louisiana serving the needs of children in the state and across the Gulf.  The hospital is nestled in the quiet Uptown neighborhood of New Orleans adjacent to the Mississippi River and the attractions of Audubon Park. 

CHNOLA has 247 beds, including 36 Level IV NICU, 24 PICU and 20 Cardiac ICU beds.  The hospital is currently undergoing a S300 million, state-of-the-art expansion and renovation and has already opened 12 new operating rooms (plus two cardiac catheterization labs and 2 procedure rooms), a 35 bed ER wing, a CICU floor and an ambulatory pavilion.  During your CHNOLA rotations, you will experience the full breadth of pediatric plastic surgery including participating in our ACPA accredited Children’s Hospital of New Orleans Craniofacial Center (the multidisciplinary cleft/craniofacial team is staffed by 4 craniofacial trained plastic surgery faculty), congenital hand and brachial plexus, vascular anomalies, burn reconstruction and general reconstruction. 

Our team of surgeons work hand in hand with the 40 pediatric specialty service lines at CHNOLA to deliver unparalleled care for the children of Louisiana.  Dr. Mount, the service line chief at CHNOLA, Dr. Masoumy, Dr. King, and Dr. Lavie are full time faculty at CHNOLA.  Dr. Stanley also provides expertise in congenital hand, brachial plexus and hand/extremity reconstruction.  The service is well supported by clinical nurse coordinators, a PA, wound care nurse, and research coordinator.  This allows rotating residents to focus their time on patient care, surgery, research, and optimizing their rotation experience.

Ochsner Baptist medical center

The Ochsner-Baptist Medical Center is located in Uptown New Orleans. This rotation offers exposure to a variety of Plastic Surgery procedures with an emphasis on microsurgical breast reconstruction. This site has been, for a long time, the location of Dr. Robert Allen Sr.’s practice, pioneer in perforator flap breast reconstruction. Dr. Allen continues to be actively involved in the LSU Plastic Surgery training program.

Dr. St. Hilaire also performs most of his procedures at this location. Cosmetic surgery, along with head and neck reconstruction, are also part of this experience. This rotation provides a robust surgical experience for the residents in a community hospital setting.

West & EAST bank rotationS

west jefferson medical center

The West Jefferson Medical Center rotation offers our residents a variety of Plastic Surgery training experiences in a community or private practice setting.

The hospital is part of the LCMC not-for-profit hospital system.  It is located 15 minutes away from downtown New Orleans, and it serves a diverse population of over 130,000 patients.

During this 3-month rotation, our residents will work with Dr. Boraski one-on-one and follow a full cycle of patients from initial consultation through their post-operative course. The rotation focuses on mammaplasty, body contouring, skin cancer, wound care, and cosmetic surgery.

EAST JEFFERSON MEDICAL CENTER

East Jefferson General Hospital, located in the New Orleans “suburb” of Metairie, serves as the flagship hospital for the Tulane School of Medicine residency programs. Our residents rotate at EJ for their 1-month Transplant experience, in which they will gain experience assisting on kidney, liver, and pancreas procurements and transplants. Additionally, LSU faculty will intermittently have miscellaneous plastic surgery cases at EJ.

EJ is conveniently located next door to the Houma Outpatient Surgery Center, where many of our outpatient cosmetic cases take place.

baton rouge rotation

our lady of the lake REGIONAL medical center

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center in Baton Rouge, LA is the largest hospital in the Louisiana and one of the 25 largest hospitals in the country. A part of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, Our Lady of the Lake serves 35,000 inpatients and 650,000 outpatients annually.

Its family of services includes an 800-bed hospital and the capital’s only Level I Trauma Center, a freestanding Children's Hospital, two free-standing emergency rooms, and a network of nearly 15 urgent care clinics.

During the Baton Rouge rotation, residents work primarily with the OLOL Plastic Surgery Chief Dr. Ruston Sanchez who performs the gamut of plastic surgery including regional and microsurgical reconstruction of the breasts, trunk, and extremities, and cosmetic surgery. Dr. Sanchez operates at both the OLOL adult and children’s hospitals. Residents also operate with Dr. Hanemann and other community plastic surgeons, providing further exposure to aesthetic surgery.