Louisiana's largest bone marrow and stem cell transplant programme, accredited for cellular therapy and running across six Ochsner hospital sites.
Ochsner Health runs a blood and marrow transplant and cellular therapy programme that its website describes as the largest in Louisiana. Care is delivered across six sites: New Orleans and Jefferson, Covington, Baton Rouge, Lafayette and Shreveport. The programme is accredited by the Foundation for the Accreditation of Cellular Therapy, an independent body that inspects transplant centres against published standards.
This is established hospital cancer medicine rather than a private stem cell clinic. Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans performs both autologous transplants, using stem cells collected from the patient beforehand, and allogeneic transplants, using cells from a donor. The hospital has its own cellular therapy processing laboratory where stem cells are processed and manipulated on site. Treatment involves high-dose chemotherapy, radiotherapy or both before the cells are given back.
Supporting services include an outpatient infusion suite, management of graft-versus-host disease (a complication in which donor cells attack the recipient's tissues), a transplant survivorship programme and a multidisciplinary team of nurses, coordinators, social workers and support staff. Patients may also be offered phase 1, 2 and 3 clinical trials and a precision cancer therapies programme. Individual transplant physicians are not listed on this page.
These are regulated transplant procedures for blood and bone marrow disease, not injection-style stem cell treatments.
No transplant physicians are listed with credentials on this page.
The programme spans six Louisiana sites: Ochsner Medical Center - New Orleans, 1514 Jefferson Highway, Jefferson, LA 70121, (504) 842-3000, open 24 hours; The Gayle and Tom Benson Cancer Center, 1515 River Road, Jefferson, LA 70121, (866) 624-7637, Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm; St. Tammany Cancer Center, 900 Ochsner Boulevard, Covington, LA 70433, (985) 249-2383, Monday to Friday 7am to 6pm; Ochsner Cancer Center - Baton Rouge, 17050 Medical Center Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70816, (225) 761-5200; Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center, 1214 Coolidge Street, Lafayette, LA 70503, (337) 289-7991, open 24 hours; and Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, 1501 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71103, (318) 813-1000, Monday to Friday 7am to 4pm. The site does not state a founding year, languages spoken or any international patient service.
No prices are published. Transplant care in the United States is billed through health insurance and requires pre-authorisation; contact Ochsner's financial services and your insurer about coverage.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.