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Lake Charles Memorial Health System

Lake Charles Memorial Health System is the region's largest not-for-profit, community healthcare system, serving the healthcare needs of Southwest Louisiana. Memorial Health System is locally-owned and operated by a Board of Trustees from the community it serves. The hospital is a shareholder of Voluntary Hospitals of America (VHA), and is fully licensed by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. The only full-service healthcare system in Lake Charles, Memorial was established in 1952. Today, our health system includes 314 licensed beds on our Oak Park acute care campus, 54 beds at our Women's campus, 44 beds at our behavioral health campus and our outpatient clinic serving uninsured and under insured at the Moss Memorial Health Clinic, and over 100 employed physicians and specialists that are a part of the Memorial Medical Group. As the healthcare market leader in the Lake Charles region, our success can be attributed to a dedicated team of over 2,700 employees and 300 staff physicians representing more than 60 specialties and subspecialties, as well as the largest emergency services department and the only trauma center in southwest Louisiana. Memorial has the area's only teaching facility for physicians through the Memorial/LSUHSC Family Medicine Residency Program, and serves as a clinical training site for nursing, medical technology and radiologic technology students through various universities, including McNeese State University.