The Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans has teaching, research, and health care functions state-wide, through its six professional schools and eight Centers of Excellence, as well as the more than one hundred hospitals and other health science related institutions throughout the State, Region, Nation, and the World, with which they maintain affiliations.
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans is Louisiana's flaghsip university teaching health professionals. Educating Louisiana's doctors, it is the home of six schools-- medicine, the state's only dental school, the only nursing school in LA within an academic Health Center, allied health professions, graduate studies and public health.
