2006 St. Francis Medical Center

Level III

For over a century, St. Francis Medical Center’s mission of extending the healing ministry of Jesus Christ to those most in need has remained constant. From our modest beginning in July 1913 as a three-story red brick building with 75 patient beds, today St. Francis Medical Center includes 325 beds with a Level III trauma center, Graduate Medical Education program, accredited chest pain center, and the area’s only Level II PICU, Level III NICU, OB-ED and Level III OB unit.

St. Francis Health

• • Founded in 1913, serving the Northeast region
  • 317 licensed beds at St. Francis Medical Center
  • 1,195 full-time employees
  • 315 active medical staff
  • 2 urgent care clinics
  • 57,715 emergency room visits
  • Includes St. Francis Medical Center, St. Francis Community Health Center, St. Francis P&S Surgery & Heart Center, and St. Francis Medical Group
  • The area’s only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and Level III Obstetrician Unit
  • Offers a designated Level III Trauma Center, a Graduate Medical Education Program, Accredited Chest Pain Center, Accredited Primary Stroke Center and Centers of Excellence in the areas of bariatric surgery, minimally invasive surgery, robotic surgery, minimally invasive gynecology, breast health and specialized anesthesia

* Numbers are for the fiscal year 2024

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System is the leading health innovator in Louisiana and Mississippi and a regional destination for healthcare access. We bring together the top clinicians, advanced technology and innovative research to ensure our patients receive the highest quality and most comprehensive care possible.

This commitment is grounded in a history more than 100 years old but reflective of our forward-thinking strategic vision aimed at transforming healthcare.

As a nonprofit, mission-focused Catholic healthcare ministry, we provide a compassionate circle of care to everyone while giving special attention to those most in need. The care we administer is driven by listening to our patients and putting their needs first. Through listening, we can truly understand what’s going on, hear what the patient’s goals are, and most importantly, discover together how we can help.

Since our founding, we’ve grown to become one of the largest health systems in the region, providing care to almost half of Louisiana, and serving Mississippi’s largest metropolitan area in Jackson.

Within the regions we serve, we operate major hospitals as well as dozens of community clinics and specialty centers to care for patients with a wide range of illnesses and health needs. Because of our size and strategic partnerships with local organizations, we can pool resources, share costs, learn from each other and be more efficient, thereby accelerating our ability to improve care and solve challenges.

Following in the footsteps of the Franciscan Sisters and looking to the future of our healthcare ministry, we chart our course by “going where we are called.”