Childrens Hospital Inc

Patient care, general/other: in 2024 children's hospital provided care to children from all 64 parishes in louisiana , from 44 other states, the district of columbia and 6 foreign countries. patient visits totaled 223,637. included in these visits were 144,805 physician clinic visits, 64,305 emergency room visits, 7,026 outpatient surgical visits, and 7,501 inpatient admissions or 57,141 patient care days.

Professional education:resident teaching & graduate medical education programschildren's hospital has become an increasingly important teaching center for both undergraduate and graduate medical education. during 2024, there was a total of 620 residents who received their training at children's hospital in general pediatrics, pediatric/emergency medicine and internal medicine/pediatric programs obtain most of their training at the hospital. in addition, residents in anesthesiology, emergency medicine, general surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, orthopedics, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, pathology, physical medicine and rehabilitation, plastic surgery, psychiatry, radiology, dermatology, family medicine, and urology also receive (continued on schedule o) training at children's hospital. in addition, fellows in allergy/immunology, pediatric cardiology, child and adolescent psychiatry, pediatric emergency medicine, pediatric endocrinology, pediatric gastroenterology, pediatric hematology/oncology, pediatric hospital medicine, pediatric infectious disease, pediatric physical medicine and rehabilitation, neonatal-perinatal medicine, and pediatric nephrology, and pediatric orthopedic surgery also receive advanced subspecialty training at children's hospital. most medical students, residents and fellows rotating through children's hospital are from the lsu health sciences center new orleans (lsuhsc-no) and tulane university (tu).the pediatric residents participate in a variety of educational activities. the chief residents conduct morning report, held four times a week where an interesting or unique case is presented and discussed, allowing residents and students to observe the thought processes that go into problem solving and clinical reasoning. conferences are held on weekdays with specialists from ambulatory, adolescent medicine, allergy/immunology, emergency medicine, forensic medicine, hospitalist medicine, nephrology, psychiatry, psychology, infectious disease, radiology, cardiology, rheumatology, neonatology, hematology/oncology, critical care, pulmonology, endocrine, neonatology, gastroenterology and several surgical specialties rotating presentations. pediatric board review is held once a month and covers all aspects of pediatrics for preparation of the american board of pediatrics certifying examination. in addition, all divisions conduct specialty conferences for students and residents rotating on those services.the "resident as teachers" series is held quarterly facilitated by the director of the clinical sciences curriculum who instructs the residents on various teaching tools and methods to improve their supervision of junior residents and students. the evidenced-based medicine journal club is conducted monthly by the upper-level residents under the direction of a faculty member. the presentations are case based and involve a clinical question. the resident outlines their search method, the articles that were relevant and then critically review one article that answers the clinical question.clinical case conferences are held once a week and attended by faculty, residents, and students. residents present interesting cases followed by a thorough review of the literature on this topic. faculty members present grand rounds at children's hospital every wednesday at noon to formally present a topic related to their specialty.the accreditation council for graduate medical education (acgme) is responsible for the accreditation of post-md medical training programs within the united states. children's hospital is the primary t