City: Shreveport, LA

Category: Health Care

Telephone: (318) 681-4500

Description: Formerly known as CHRISTUS Schumpert Medical Center, CHRISTUS Schumpert St. Mary Place is a 601-bed acute-care facility, associated with the Sisters of Charity, with over six hundred physicians serving all major medical specialties. CHRISTUS Schumpert St. Mary Place’s areas of specialty include behavioral medicine, cardiovascular services, oncology, orthopedic and neurological services, primary care and medicine, surgical services, and women’s and children’s services. In 2003 it installed the area’s second robotic surgery system for treating prostate cancer and added a second system two years later. Affiliated with the Catholic Church, CHRISTUS Schumpert St. Mary Place continues its long tradition of providing the community and surrounding areas with the latest state-of-the-art technology combined with the best possible hands-on care. One of the oldest and most revered hospitals in the Ark-La-Tex.