Schedule: Monday-Thursday 8am-5pm Friday 8am-12pm
Support staff: There are 3 Nurse Practitioners – they are first call and work up any ED and hospital admissions. A physician will also have a nurse, as well.
Cancer Center North will have a 1 Nurse Practitioner and 1 Physicians Assistant.
Patient volume: Typical outpatient volumes per provider range from 17 to 20 per day; Normally will staff for 2-3 New Patients per day, and rest is Follow Up (average 20 F/U visits per clinic day)
On-call: Physicians take call 1:3, back-up to NPs, mostly for oncology. Hospitalists typically admit and bed the patient and oversee until the next day when they call for a consult. We can expect 2-3 consults per day. New Consults are seen by NP/PA. A physician almost never has to come in during evening hours.
Electronic Medical Records: ONCO (Epic in 2025)
Facilities: Most imaging and lab are done at the CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital next door. Our hospital also offers Radiation Oncology. If something comes in that is beyond local expertise, we typically ship to LSU Shreveport (90m), Ochsner in Baton Rouge (less than 2h) or MD Anderson in Houston (4h) Cancer Center North has an Inhouse Lab.