Healthcare

Thank you

Although it has been said before, we can never say it enough.

Thank you to all of our healthcare workers who continue to work selflessly around the clock and through the holidays during the global pandemic. To all of the nurses, physicians, rehab therapists, administrators, mental health professionals, support staff and every important role in between, you are the true heroes of 2020, and we celebrate you even more as we move forward through 2021.

We are so grateful for the depth of healthcare options located in Ascension Parish. With major hospitals, urgent care clinics, numerous physician specialties and more, Ascension Parish is well-equipped to meet all of your healthcare needs much closer to home. Thank you to our local healthcare facilities and providers for continuing to make Ascension Parish a thriving place to live.

Our Lady of the Lake Ascension has proudly served the people of Ascension Parish for nearly four decades. We have been designated with a Leapfrog “A” Grade for safety for the past five years. This underscores our priority to provide quality and safe healthcare. Our Lady of the Lake Ascension is the largest provider of healthcare services in Ascension. Our team of dedicated doctors and staff live and work here, too. We deeply care about this community, providing the services that you expect like emergency care, imaging, and lab services. We also provide services that you wouldn’t typically find in communities of our size such as advanced robotics and interventional cardiology.

We take your health personally and we want to get to know you better, so I invite you to take a tour. While you’re here, let us know how we can best serve your healthcare needs. Call us at (225) 647-5071 to schedule a time. We, the team at Prairieville Family Hospital, provide a concierge-style of service to our neighbors, which means we attend to your every need and are always at your service. A conscious implementation of our core values–teamwork, positivity, and compassion–makes it possible to build patient trust, something we care about a lot at PFH! We’re working to bring clarity to the healthcare maze through educational engagement with each person we serve, providing genuine, practical care and comfort. Come and see us with your next medical need and experience the difference.

We are located at 37358 Market Place Drive just off of Airline Highway in Prairieville. You can give us a call at 225755-9765 or visit our website prairievillefamilyhospital.com to learn more about our state-of-the-art facilities and services that we provide for our Ascension Parish community.

Message from Edgardo Tenreiro

President and CEO of Baton Rouge General

Aneighborhood hospital in Ascension Parish is something we had been working on for years. In 2020, construction continued despite the pandemic, and we knew we would be opening while COVID-19 was still raging. During the planning process, the idea was to create a new healthcare experience, one that focuses heavily on technology and a ‘no waiting room’ concept–in other words, no clipboards and forms. It was a good idea in 2019, but last year, it seemed like we had predicted the future. The idea of sitting in a crowded waiting room was the last thing patients wanted. Our patients quickly became very comfortable with the technology. With no patient waiting rooms, they can check in when they arrive through our mobile app or the onsite kiosk. The reception from the community has been great so far, and we are happy to bring multiple services, like an ER, primary care, physical therapy and imaging, closer to home for residents.

Message from William Baird, M.D.

Ochsner Health Center - Prairieville

Ochsner began seeing patients in Prairieville in 2002 and has worked tirelessly to expand our services for nearly 20 years. Our goal has always been to keep more residents of Ascension Parish close to home for healthcare. Last year, we transformed our health center from a 10,500 square-foot facility with 18 exam rooms to over 24,250 square feet with 43 exam rooms and 7 treatment rooms. In addition to primary care and pediatrics, the health center now offers many Ochsner specialists as well as various cardiac testing, a pulmonary function lab, MRI, ultrasound and mammography services.

We also offer urgent care services in Ascension on Airline Hwy., in Gonzales. In summer 2022, we’ll open Ochsner Health Center–Gonzales, a 51,610 square-foot facility with 18 exam rooms on the first floor in addition to a full radiology suite (w/MRI) and a lab. The building’s second floor will be available for future expansion.