[StBernard] Parish officials consider hospital options

[Westley Annis]

>Understandable that 20 beds is not enough for this region; 

>and it will  be a regional hospital not just St Bernard 

>Parish.  However, even with a  larger bed hospital, 

>if the other group  cannot for whatever reasons treat the

>person, wont they be shipped to Baton Rouge?? 


I posited the idea that if OLOL is chosen with their
larger # of beds, that if the local hospital were full or if
someone needed a procedure that could not be done in the
local hospital that OLOL would probably form a partnership
with another local hospital such as East/West Jeff, Touro or
Tulane.  I would seriously doubt they would form a partner-
ship with Ochsner nor do I think they would be referring
patients 90 miles away to OLOL Baton Rouge.

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