The five-story, 343,000-sq.-ft. building will be constructed at Ochsner Medical Center-New Orleans next to the existing hospital building. Pediatric specialists with Ochsner Health worked alongside HOK and Rozas Ward architects to design the new facility.
Ochsner Children’s new home will have a children’s-only emergency department, with significant enhancements to critical care, operating rooms, and imaging capacity and proximity. A level IV surgical Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) will enable highly specialized care for babies who need surgery. More broadly, the new space will allow Louisiana’s top children’s hospital to expand access to its leading treatments and highly sought out specialties and subspecialties.