April 26, 2013 In Case You Missed It: BR Business Report: OLOL performs first surgeries under LSU partnership

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Daily Report staff
Published Apr 26, 2013 at 2:00 PM

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Surgeons at Our Lady of the Lake's renovated Perkins Surgery Center on Tuesday performed the first surgery on a patient who would ordinarily have been treated at Earl K. Long Medical Center before its closure. That's according to a news release today from LSU Health Baton Rouge, a division of Our Lady of the Lake. The new surgery center is averaging 16 to 19 procedures a day, officials say, compared to last month's average of six surgeries per day at Earl K. Long. Since services and programs were transferred from EKL to OLOL April 15-25, officials say:

 

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Surgeon General Ralph L. Abraham, M.D.

Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein

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