HOSPITAL: Serving Washington Parish, surrounding areas since 2014

Awards & Recognition

• The only full-service acute care facility on the Northshore to receive the CMS 5-Star Rating for Patient Experience in 2021 and 2022

• Bir th Ready+ Designation – 1 of 5 Louisiana Birthing facilities to meet this rigorous threshold of compliance and achievement requirements as held by The Louisiana Department of Health and the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative (LaPQC)

• The Gift Shining Star Designation since 2017 – the labor and delivery team successfully doubled breastfeeding initiation rates

• The Gift Making a Difference Award for improving breastfeeding rates by 35%

• The only Louisiana hospital to earn the Leapfrog Top Rural Hospital Designation in 2020

• Recognized by Health Grades as a national leader in patient experience and outstanding patient safety 2021

• Dr. Gerald Foret,

Hospitalist, was featured on the August 2020 cover of National Geographic Magazine, highlighting our innovative care for COVID patients. That same image was selected as one of National Geographic’s top 10 most unforgettable images of 2020.

• LOPA Workplace for Life Platinum Award

• Numerous EDGE of the Lake Magazine Readers’ Favorite Awards including Favorite Hospital in Washington Parish

• Numerous Bogalusa Daily News Reader’s Choice Awards including Best Hospital in Washington Parish

• Women’s Choice Award

• Rated among the Top Local Hospitals in the Greater New Orleans area, according to New Orleans Magazine

• Dr. Richard Karlin, Surgery – Named Top Surgeon, New Orleans Magazine, 2022

• Dr. Raghubir Mangat, Pediatrician – Named Louisiana American Academy of Pediatrics Master Pediatrician, 2022

Graduate Medical Education

LSU Rural Family Medicine Residency Program

Our Lady of the Angels Hospital operates and fully funds an institutionally sponsored training program accredited through LSU School of Medicine – New Orleans.

The Bogalusa LSU Rural Family Medicine Residency Program is the only rurally located program of its kind in the state of Louisiana, and one of only 55 in the nation. The program’s mission is to train competent and dedicated family physicians to serve in rural and often under-served populations and to establish a premier health-care center for Southeast Louisiana.

The partnership between the LSU Rural Family Medicine Residency Program and Our Lady of the Angels Hospital has provided additional opportunities for the program and its residents. All faculty physicians are Board Certified in Family Medicine.

It is also the only Louisiana residency program listed among the first 200 New Medicare-funded Residency Slots to Hospitals Serving Underserved Communities – this will increase their resident class size from 6 to 7 per year.

Since 2014, Our Lady of the Angels has hired 5 graduates from its LSU Rural Family Medicine Residency Program to serve as primary care physicians in their physician clinics.

LSU Ophthalmology Residency Program

Our Lady of the Angels Ophthalmology Clinic serves as a major LSU Ophthalmology Training Rotation, and Our Lady of the Angels is the primary training site for ophthalmology surgeries. Over 40 full and part time clinical faculty members provide supervision and training of residents in a complete array of services, which include general ophthalmology, oculoplastic-oncology, glaucoma, cornea and external disease, pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus, retina and posterior segment disease, neuro-ophthalmology, and ocular pathology. During the three-year program, residents gain experience in a wide variety of clinical and surgical situations with diverse patient populations.

Innovative Care Programs

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