Program areas at Ochsner Acadia General
Acadia General Hospital provides a wide range of healthcare and medical services to individuals. As a General acute care hsopital, Acadia General Hospital provides inpatient and outpatient services for patients. Acadia General Hospital provides medical specialties of family medicine, internal medicine, nephrology, cardiology, gastroenterology, General surgery, orthopedic surgery, urology, otolaryngology (ent), gynecology, oncology, pediatrics, and ophthalmology. The Hospital provides General medical/surgical inpatient beds, intensive care unit inpatient services, and inpatient gynecology services. In addition to its inpatient services, Acadia General Hospital provides a variety of outpatient services, diagnostic testing, and therapy services. Many of these services also provide services to patients receiving care in our inpatient units. Acadia General Hospital provides surgery services, a full-service laboratory and pathology services, a wide range of radiological services (including General diagnostic, mammography, ultrasound, computed tomography (ct), nuclear medicine, magnetic resonance imaging, echocardiography, and bone density), respiratory therapy, cardiology (including electrocardiology (ekg) and stress ekg), electroencephalography (eeg), audiology services, speech therapy services, physical therapy services, wound care and hyperbaric, vein therapy, and chemotherapy and other infusion therapy services. Acadia General Hospital has a 24-hour emergency department providing acute and non-acute services to the residents of Acadia parish and the surrounding area. Program services statistics related to providing community medical care for the Hospital during fye 12/31/23 were: 113 licensed beds, 7,955 total patient days, 16,836 emergency room visits, 416 inpatient surgeries and 1,489 outpatient surgeries.