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Hospitals
Facilities of the Tulane/Ochsner Pediatric Residency Training Program
The majority of the resident's experience in the training program is spent at the Tulane Hospital for Children and the Ochsner Clinic Foundation.
Tulane Hospital for Children
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The Tulane Hospital for Children (a hospital within a hospital) is located within the seven-story Tulane University Health Sciences Center. It houses 85 pediatric beds, and a full range of inpatient diagnostic services, as well as a pediatric bone marrow unit.
Patients in this facility are admitted by our hospitalists for a primary care problem or by our subspecialists for more specialized care. Patients represent a broad range of diagnostic and therapeutic situations. During rotations on the inpatient units, the house officer teams are the primary physicians for all pediatric medical patients and are responsible for writing all orders. In addition, they provide concurrent care for pediatric surgical services with the supervision of the pediatric hospitalist. The PICU offers experience in caring for the sickest of patients, as well as working with the pediatric transport team in receiving patients from the city and the region.
Daily teaching/attending rounds with the faculty ensure the best possible patient care and maximize the educational experience. Night call is every fourth night on this rotation.
Ochsner Clinic Foundation
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The Ochsner Clinic Foundation Hospital, a 535-bed facility with its state-of- the art technology, includes an 11-story clinic building. A separate children's clinic building provides a child friendly environment for children and adolescents. All in all, Ochsner provides one of the largest and most comprehensive inpatient and outpatient facilities in the U.S. Residents care for general and subspecialty patients on the pediatric floor, as well as in the PICU. This environment also provides experience with the Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) center.
Residents also care for patients in the Ochsner Clinics, on rotations in the comprehensive Child Development Center and care for patients in the large private group practice setting for both primary care, as a continuity clinic, and for subspecialty patients on outpatient rotations and electives.
Daily teaching and attending rounds with the hospitalist or the admitting physicians ensure the best possible patient care and maximize the educational experience. Night call is every fourth night on this rotation.
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital
Tulane-Lakeside Hospital is a nearby suburban Women's Hospital. It is the site of our nursery rotations, Level I, II, and III. There are 28 NICU beds, of which 10 are step down. The Level III cares for the sickest neonates born in-house or transported in by the transport team. The unit has ECHM and dialysis capabilities.
The clinic building at this site houses our general and subspecialty clinics in newly renovated suites. Residents may attend general clinics as their continuity clinics, as well as to rotate through subspecialty clinics on outpatient rotations and on electives. Large cystic fibrosis and sickle cell populations, among others from the city and the region, make these clinical rotations especially educational.
