Program areas at Touro Infirmary
Founded in 1852, Touro Infirmary (Touro) is new orleans' only community based, non-profit, faith-based hospital. Since 2009, Touro has been a part of lcmc health. For more than 165 years, Touro has had a special place in the heart of the community, providing high quality, compassionate healthcare to the new orleans community. As a full-service hospital, Touro offers medical, surgical, intensive care, obstetric, skilled nursing inpatient services, inpatient and outpatient rehabilitation services, and a 24-hour emergency department. As an adult, acute care hospital, Touro offers comprehensive healthcare services at every stage of life, from delivering the second most babies in the state for any single hospital to providing cardiac, cancer, and rehabilitation care in a warm and healing (cont'd on sch. O) environment. The hospital provides inpatient, outpatient, emergency and critical care, home health and rehabilitation services. The hospital has 210 adult beds, 61 rehabilitation beds, 22 icu beds and 48 ob beds for a total of 341 licensed beds. The hospital treated 8,702 inpatients and had 221,997 outpatient visits in 2022. Also, in 2022, Touro had 7,982 surgeries (inpatient, outpatient and ambulatory surgery center), 27,326 emergency department visits, and 2,550 deliveries. Lcmc health is a new orleans-based, non-profit health system on a mission to provide the best possible care for every person and parish in Louisiana and beyond, and bring a little more heart and soul to health care along the way. Originally founded by Louisiana's only freestanding children's hospital, they've grown into a healthcare system that is built to serve the needs of our communities. Today, lcmc health offers six hospital locations. Plus, they also have a series of partnerships that help provide the most comprehensive care, including agreements with crescent city surgical centre, an urgent care partnership with premier health, and an investment in a retirement and rehab community.
Community health services and community benefit operations provide free health education programs and screenings to the community. These programs are designed to focus on some of the most prevalent diseases in the new orleans community, such as diabetes, heart disease and cancer. These programs address prevention, early detection, treatment and maintaining healthy lifestyles. In 2022, Touro offered or participated in 152 total community outreach events, which were attended by 2,445 people. Touro did see an increase attendance as covid-19 limitation on meeting/gatherings were relaxed in 2022. Touro provides meeting space free of charge to local non-profits and other organizations for the benefit of the (cont'd on sch. O) community. In 2022, Touro provided meeting space for 216 meetings.
Touro is a teaching hospital offering medical student and post graduate medical training. It has academic affiliations with Louisiana state university health sciences center and tulane university health science center. Touro offered training programs to 398 students, 320 residents, and 44 fellows in 2022 in the specialties of allergy, internal medicine, emergency medicine, colon & rectal, cardiology, neurology, general surgery, gastroenterology, nicu, ob/gyn, general vascular surgery, omfs, med/peds, neonatology, pediatrics, plastic surgery, ophthalmology, pm&r, pain management, pulmonary, orthopedics, otolaryngology, and urology. (cont'd on sch o)touro is also a clinical training site for nursing and allied health programs for various metro new orleans colleges including Louisiana state university (new orleans, la), delgado community college (new orleans, la), dillard university (new orleans, la). Holy cross university (new orleans, la), and southern university (new orleans, la). Touro currently offers training programs to students in respiratory, radiology and nursing. In 2022, Touro staff provided 7,767 hours of support to the 94 students in these programs.in 2022, Touro rehabilitation center provided clinical training to physical, occupational, and therapeutic recreation students from colleges around the country, including: lsu health sciences (new orleans, la and shreveport, la), delgado community college (new orleans, la), Washington university (st. louis, mo), university of st. augustine (austin, tx), and Texas woman's university (denton, tx). Plus, Touro staff provided 146 hours of mentor support for high school students wishing to explore rehabilitation therapy as a career choice. In all, Touro staff provided 7,806 hours of support to 28 therapy interns and/or teaching groups.
During the year ended december 31, 2022 Touro provided $969,151 to further lcmc and lsu's partnership to provide patients with access to state-of-the art clinical services and clinical trials. These funds are to be used in support of their clinical , research and educational programs in the areas of anatomy, pharmacology, and physiology, and are intended to provide a tangible benefit to social welfare through related programs and educational opportunities. The grant was also used to fund it services provided to new orleans east hospital.in 2022, Touro donated $1,223,988 to new orleans clinical services with the intention of providing working capital support to allow for their healthcare activities. This donation supports Touro's tax-exempt purpose and community benefits obligations and is presented as community support in the statement of operations. New orleans clinical services is a as community support in the statement of operations. New orleans clinical services is a smllc of Louisiana children's medical center, a 501(c)(3) hopsital and the sole member of Touro infirmary.in 2022, Touro donated $22,926,354 to university medical center management corporation as support for the hospital's healthcare activities.