Housing an urgent care facility and Ochsner Primary Care clinic, the newly completed 72,000 square-foot Plantation View Medical Offices in Destrehan is a project long desired for the East Bank.
“It’s finally come to take place, something we needed a long time – a medical office on the East Bank for the people there,” said John Landry III, chair of the St. Charles Parish Hospital Board. “We have an urgent care that’s been needed for a long time, but now they [residents] can stay in St. Charles Parish.”
Landry also welcomed the facility as “an economic boost to the community” expected to encourage new business development and job growth.
The St. Charles Parish Hospital District owns and is responsible for Plantation View and the St. Charles Parish Hospital, operating with the ongoing mission to increasing medical care in the community, he said. The district hired Ochsner Health System as the managing partner of both facilities in 2014.
Located at 13100 River Road, the $15 million Plantation View building with its French Quarter style façade was built to provide access to medical and emergency care to the area.
The project began in 2013 on a 4.3-acre site that BP America donated to St. Charles Parish Hospital Service District 1. Construction began in 2014 and the first tenant – St. Charles Urgent Care – was announced in February. Ochsner Primary Care clinic also is in operation at the facility now.
An OB/GYN, pediatrics, urology and a retail pharmacy are among planned additions at the facility in the near future.Ochsner said it is actively seeking more tenants.
St. Charles parish Hospital CEO Anthony DiGerolamo said Plantation View “will continue to strengthen the healthcare system in the parish. We are proud to have a destination in the community that offers health care access to our residents close to home.”
St. Charles Parish Hospital is a 59-bed facility created as a service district hospital in 1959.
Since assuming management of the hospital, Ochsner expanded the Ochsner Telestroke program to better treat critical stroke patients, a Hospitalist Medicine program to improve care for inpatients and ability to provide same-day patient appointments. Last year, the Ochsner Flight Care Program extended the ability to reach patients parish-wide in emergency situations.
On Wednesday, DiGerolamo and Landry along with Parish President Larry Cochran and Stephen Robinson Jr., CEO of Ochsner Medical Center in Kenner cut the ribbon officially opening Plantation View Medical Offices.
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