CHRISTUS Schumpert is a 667-bed integrated health system with a tertiary hospital, St. Mary Place, in the downtown area of Shreveport, and a general acute care hospital, Highland, in southeast Shreveport. The 80-bed CHRISTUS Schumpert Sutton Children’s Medical Center is a “hospital-within-a-hospital” and includes a 22-bed inpatient unit, 40-bed neonatal intensive care unit, 16-bed pediatric intensive care unit, and a pediatric emergency department. The facility offers family-oriented care, with no limitation on visitation. A family hospitality wing provides home-like amenities to the patient and family. Child life services help children cope with treatment. Pediatric subspecialists include three pediatric surgeons, a pediatric orthopedist, pediatric gastroenterologist, pediatric neurologist, pediatric nephrologist, two pediatric critical care physicians, two pediatric hospitalists, three neonatologists. pediatric emergency physicians and pediatric nurse practitioners.
CHRISTUS Schumpert’s comprehensive cancer treatment center is accredited by the American College of Surgeons, Commission on Cancer and provides state-of-the-art treatments. Two gynecologic oncologists treat women with cancer. The center is also fully staffed for hematology/oncology and radiation oncology by physicians and a specialized nurse practitioner.
The health system is the only one with state-of-the-art robotic assisted surgery, which is used for prostate cancer, gynecological conditions and pediatric surgeries. New operating rooms and radiology suites provide the latest in digital technology at both campuses.
The hospital’s outstanding sports medicine program earns regional acclaim, along with physical, occupational and speech therapies and a freestanding comprehensive wound center. Facilities and services also include wellness centers extended-hours primary care and hospice.
Grace Home is the region’s only residential hospice and offers care and comfort with dignity to patients during their last days. The health system also provides for the community with an Adult Day Health Center for medically needy elderly residents. Three school-based health centers are sponsored by CHRISTUS Schumpert in Shreveport.
A new full-service center for victims of suspected child abuse and neglect houses three primary child advocacy programs under one roof, including Cara Center, which provides medical care and diagnosis. A two-year-old program in cooperation with area schools, Project 5210, provides education and activities for childhood obesity prevention and care.
The St. Mary campus is a center for high-risk pregnancy care. The hospital’s Perinatal Transport Program provides for mothers with problem pregnancies to be transported to CHRISTUS Schumpert for a safer delivery under the guidance of a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist and immediate care for the baby in the area’s only Regional Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, staffed around-the-clock by three Neonatologists and six Neonatal Nurse Practitioners.
Dubuis Hospital of Shreveport, located within CHRISTUS Schumpert St. Mary Place in Shreveport, is a 36-bed facility that offers medical and nursing services for long-term, acute care patients. As a licensed hospital within a hospital, the goal at Dubuis Hospital is to help patients progress to a higher level of functioning, and ultimately to help them return to the community.
CHRISTUS Schumpert Health System has served residents of northwest Louisiana, southwest Arkansas, and east Texas for more than 100 years. CHRISTUS Schumpert is an 668 licensed bed faith-based health system providing acute care at two locations in the Shreveport-Bossier City area. The facilities are CHRISTUS Schumpert-St. Mary Place and CHRISTUS Schumpert-Highland. The health system also operates two stand-alone wellness centers, two urgent care clinics and state-of-the-art cancer treatment center.
CHRISTUS Schumpert’s comprehensive cancer treatment center is accredited by the American College of Surgeons, Commission on Cancer and provides state-of-the-art treatments. Two gynecologic oncologists treat women with cancer. The center is also fully staffed for hematology/oncology and radiation oncology by physicians and a specialized nurse practitioner.
The health system is the only one with state-of-the-art robotic assisted surgery, which is used for prostate cancer, gynecological conditions and pediatric surgeries. New operating rooms and radiology suites provide the latest in digital technology at both campuses.
The hospital’s outstanding sports medicine program earns regional acclaim, along with physical, occupational and speech therapies and a freestanding comprehensive wound center. Facilities and services also include wellness centers extended-hours primary care and hospice.
Grace Home is the region’s only residential hospice and offers care and comfort with dignity to patients during their last days. The health system also provides for the community with an Adult Day Health Center for medically needy elderly residents. Three school-based health centers are sponsored by CHRISTUS Schumpert in Shreveport.
A new full-service center for victims of suspected child abuse and neglect houses three primary child advocacy programs under one roof, including Cara Center, which provides medical care and diagnosis. A two-year-old program in cooperation with area schools, Project 5210, provides education and activities for childhood obesity prevention and care.
The St. Mary campus is a center for high-risk pregnancy care. The hospital’s Perinatal Transport Program provides for mothers with problem pregnancies to be transported to CHRISTUS Schumpert for a safer delivery under the guidance of a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist and immediate care for the baby in the area’s only Regional Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, staffed around-the-clock by three Neonatologists and six Neonatal Nurse Practitioners.
Dubuis Hospital of Shreveport, located within CHRISTUS Schumpert St. Mary Place in Shreveport, is a 36-bed facility that offers medical and nursing services for long-term, acute care patients. As a licensed hospital within a hospital, the goal at Dubuis Hospital is to help patients progress to a higher level of functioning, and ultimately to help them return to the community.
CHRISTUS Schumpert Health System has served residents of northwest Louisiana, southwest Arkansas, and east Texas for more than 100 years. CHRISTUS Schumpert is an 668 licensed bed faith-based health system providing acute care at two locations in the Shreveport-Bossier City area. The facilities are CHRISTUS Schumpert-St. Mary Place and CHRISTUS Schumpert-Highland. The health system also operates two stand-alone wellness centers, two urgent care clinics and state-of-the-art cancer treatment center.
See our website at www.christushealth.org or call us at 318-681-4500.
Our Sponsors are the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in Houston, Texas.
