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Hey!  What happened to the twin condo pic above???

 

If these twin condo's(orange rectangles) had the same "footprint" as say the Renaissance Hotel(shown arrow on right)...you don't think they could tightly fit near the R.R. Tracks along Picardy? could even extend it (left) toward the cement mixing site...not to mention the long north/south strip of land that's the proposed Midway Avenue

 

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Those towers mixed with the BRG's master-plan would make that area looking absolutely amazing...like Houston or Dallas' respective medical districts. Dense development like that is what this city needs. 

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Those towers mixed with the BRG's master-plan would make that area looking absolutely amazing...like Houston or Dallas' respective medical districts. Dense development like that is what this city needs. 

More high rise buildings will be built that's a fact. I'm hoping they try to buy some of the property from some of the business that will not fit in that area.

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More high rise buildings will be built that's a fact. I'm hoping they try to buy some of the property from some of the business that will not fit in that area.

It's a possibility, but I would not go as far to say as fact. A city the size of Baton Rouge should have a much more impressive skyline, but given the cities sheer size and available land more companies tend to build larger more spread out buildings rather than taller buildings. Then again the BRHD is pretty tight on space, especially if they can add that grid structure they want.

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The Louisiana Medical District (As I have dubbed it) is already making some nice deals:

 

Health care company purchases medical office building for $10.5 million

 

Now that grid work needs to start, OLOL University Campus, and OLOL Children's Hospital and Baton Rouge will have itself the right set pieces for what can be an amazing and world class medical district.

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The Louisiana Medical District (As I have dubbed it) is already making some nice deals:

 

Health care company purchases medical office building for $10.5 million

 

Now that grid work needs to start, OLOL University Campus, and OLOL Children's Hospital and Baton Rouge will have itself the right set pieces for what can be an amazing and world class medical district.

This is why Baton Rouge need to do more annexation no way in hell we share Baton Rouge Health District with St George don't care how small.

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Could future of Baton Rouge General include collaboration with Ochsner?                                                                                                         Ochsner Health Systems has been in discussions with officials from Baton Rouge General Medical Center regarding a possible collaboration between the institutions that, at the very least, could involve Baton Rouge General joining a newly created Ochsner Health Network.

Ochsner CEO Warner Thomas declines to discuss any specifics about talks with Baton Rouge General, but he confirms the institutions have discussed possible partnerships in the past and may continue to do so in the future.

“We are always looking at new partnerships and have discussions under way in a number of different markets throughout Louisiana,” Thomas says. “We’ve historically had discussion with the General, but I cannot comment on them and what we may or may not be doing now.”

Last week, Ochsner announced the creation of the Ochsner Health Network, which includes St. Tammany Parish Hospital, Lafayette General Health, Terrebonne General Medical Center and the six-hospital CHRISTUS Health. The institutions will collaborate on patient care, technology and services. No hospitals in the Capital Region, outside of Ochsner’s existing facilities here, are in the network.

“We believe with all the changes going on in health care it’s important for us to work together with like-minded partners to drive a common agenda so we’re sharing best practices to achieve quality across the network,” Thomas says.

As to whether Baton Rouge General is interested in partnering with Ochsner, president and CEO Mark Slyter says the hospital is open to collaborating with other institutions.

“We welcome the opportunity to explore collaboration with like-minded, innovative organizations that advance our mission of exceptional health care,” Slyter says.

What that means as a practical matter remains to be seen. Baton Rouge General shut down its Mid City emergency room in March, saying it could no longer afford to keep it open. In the months since, consultants have been evaluating alternative uses for the Mid City campus, which remains open as a much smaller acute-care facility.         https://www.businessreport.com/article/future-baton-rouge-general-include-collaboration-ochsner
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New retail center planned for intersection of Essen and Perkins                                                                                                                             The owner of Ichiban Japanese Grill and Sushi Bar at 5741 Essen Lane is planning to develop a new retail strip center on a vacant 2.6-acre parcel at the intersection of Perkins Road and Essen Lane.

Chris Shaheen, who is the development consultant on the project, says restaurant owner Kit Wong acquired the parcel several years ago, intending to build a new restaurant on the site. Instead, however, he expanded his existing establishment, which is located in the shopping center adjacent to the vacant parcel, and decided to develop a new retail strip center that Shaheen hopes will attract a mixture of retail and restaurant tenants.

“It’s a great location and one of the busiest intersections in the city,” says Shaheen, an agent with Saurage Rotenberg Commercial Real Estate, which will be leasing the new development. “With two hospitals, Perkins Rowe, and five health clubs in, like, a one-mile radius we think it’s a great location.”

The new center, which will be called Ichiban Plaza, will be 21,000 square feet and lease rates will average between $20 and $24 per square foot. Shaheen plans to bring the project to the Planning Commission for approval next month, and hopes to begin construction by late summer. A target opening date has been set for mid-2016.            https://www.businessreport.com/article/new-retail-center-planned-intersection-essen-perkins  

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News alert: Our Lady of the Lake releases details, rendering for new Children’s Hospital       

Our Lady of the Lake has released new renderings and details about its long-planned Children’s Hospital, which will be located on hospital-owned property that runs parallel to Interstate 10 between Essen Lane and Bluebonnet Boulevard.

In a statement released this morning, the hospital says it is getting ready to submit plans to the East Baton Rouge Parish Planning Commission that will detail the proposed project. As currently envisioned, it will include inpatient beds, an emergency room, surgical unit and a dedicated hematology/oncology unit that will be affiliated with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Plans also include development of a connected medical office building.

“While there are many steps that must be completed over the next six to eight months before we can finalize our vision, we are excited to share an exterior rendering and project update,” says OLOL Chief Operating Officer Terrie Sterling. “At this point in the process, we are finalizing the design of the hospital and will soon begin construction documents.”

Plans for a freestanding Children’s Hospital at OLOL have been in the works for several years but the project is finally beginning to take shape. The existing Children’s Hospital, located within the hospital’s main building on Essen Lane, treats 100,000 patients annually from across Louisiana Mississippi and Texas.

See a rendering of the Children’s Hospital.      https://www.businessreport.com/article/news-alert-lady-lake-releases-details-renderings-new-childrens-hospital

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Looks nice! The only confusion I have is where exactly it will be? I'm confused by how it says it will be parallel to the I-10 but also mentioned being behind Jacobs Tower, which could be that same spot, but there's also the former Summa Tower lot to consider (although I'm pretty sure that's not 60 acres).

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Essen Centre looking to fill space left by IBM                 

When IBM moved into its new downtown office space earlier this summer, it left a 30,000-square-foot hole in the local office market that real estate agents are scrambling to fill. For two years, IBM leased 30,000 square feet of temporary office space in the Essen Centre building at 5353 Essen Lane. That space is now vacant, and though several potential tenants have expressed an interest in it, no deal has been finalized.

Property manager Norman Bacon says he would like to find a single tenant to lease at least one of the one-and-a-half floors IBM had occupied in the building. So far, he hasn’t found anybody, but he has been in discussions with the U.S. General Services Administration about leasing smaller portions of the space.

“We’re actively marketing it and eager to find a long-term home for everybody,” Bacon says.

The space is being listed at $24 per square foot. Bacon says that’s a good deal, especially considering that the space was newly renovated before IBM moved in in 2013 and was upgraded with a state-of-the-art fiber-optic network.

“They were only here a couple of years, and one the byproducts of their presence in our building was the addition of fiber-optic telecommunications,” he says. “So we have a major hub sitting here and nobody using it.”           https://www.businessreport.com/article/essen-centre-looking-fill-space-left-ibm

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Permits filed for several major hospital projects in Baton Rouge and Water Institute headquarters at City Dock            

New details on several major, previously announced projects in Baton Rouge were revealed today in permit filings with the city-parish Planning Commission.

Permits were filed by today’s deadline to get on the commission’s Oct. 19 meeting agenda for Our Lady of The Lake’s Children’s Hospital, the Center for Breast and GYN Cancer set for the Woman’s Hospital campus in partnership with Mary Bird Perkins-OLOL Cancer Center, and the $22 million, 33,000-square-foot building to be constructed on the City Dock for The Water Institute of the Gulf’s headquarters.

When OLOL announced the Children’s Hospital project in late July, details on square footage were not yet available. Today’s application says the hospital complex—which will be built on a 60-acre tract of hospital-owned property that runs parallel to Interstate 10 between Essen Lane and Bluebonnet Boulevard—would include three buildings totalling 454,200 square feet. Of that, 345,600 square feet would consist of the Children’s Hospital, while an affiliated medical office building would consist of 95,000 square feet and another 14,200 square feet would be used for supporting infrastructure.

As currently envisioned, the Children’s Hospital will include inpatient beds, an emergency room, surgical unit and a dedicated hematology/oncology unit that will be affiliated with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. Construction on the hospital is expected to take two years once it is underway. The target opening date is some time in 2018.

Once completed, the facility will greatly expand OLOL’s ability to care for pediatric patients. The existing Children’s Hospital, located within the hospital’s main building on Essen Lane, is just one floor of the main tower. It treats 100,000 patients annually from across Louisiana Mississippi and Texas.

See a rendering of the Children’s Hospital.

Details were also scant on the Center for Breast and GYN Cancer when it was announced in March, but today’s filing sheds a little light on the project. The center will be located on 4.5 acres at the Woman’s campus on Airline Highway, and would include about 74,000 square feet and 148 parking spaces. Woman’s spokeswoman Aimee Goforth says further details are not available at this time.

“Basically, this is the first step towards moving forward with the new cancer center, but we haven’t applied for our construction permits yet and have not set a construction timeline,” she says.

Also today, a final development plan application was filed for the The Water Institute of the Gulf’s Headquarters, Research and Interpretive Center on the City Dock as part of The Water Campus development. A new rendering of the building was released earlier this week, with officials saying the project will get under construction this year and is expected to be completed in July 2017. See the rendering.   https://www.businessreport.com/article/permits-filed-several-major-hospital-projects-baton-rouge-water-institute-headquarters-city-dock

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Wish they would re-introduce the proposed 8-story Summa Tower...possibly more necessary now with new Children's Hosp. coming soon? But they need to re-fil the Essen Centre first i guess...

Summa Tower will likely never happen....but if it does, they may want to reformat the layout to be conducive for medical office use.

 

Hopefully the new Children's hospital will connect to Summa and Essen Park.  

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Louisiana needs 7,000 more nurse practitioners over next 5 years to meet growing demand, OLOL college president says         

Within five years, Louisiana will have at least 7,000 fewer nurse practitioners than it needs to care for an aging and needier patient base, says Tina Holland, president of Our Lady of the Lake College.

Louisiana isn’t alone. There’s a shortage of nurses nationwide, particularly advanced practice professionals such as nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialists, who are able to help provide primary care in place of physicians. Still, that doesn’t make it any easier for local providers and teaching institutions to deal with the situation.

“We’ve got to educate our nurses differently, and we’ve got to educate more of them,” said Holland, who spoke to the Rotary Club of Baton Rouge today at its weekly luncheon.

Part of the reason for the shortage in the field is that colleges don’t have the capacity—both physical space and sufficient faculty—to educate more students. Some 75,000 qualified applicants nationwide were turned away from nursing schools last year because the schools didn’t have spots for them, Holland said.

“There is a tremendous need for faculty,” Holland said. “But the competition for faculty is especially fierce because doctorate candidates can earn 30% more in the clinical setting than in a teaching institution.”

To address the situation, OLOL is trying to work more collaboratively with existing practitioners and is developing new educational partnerships and new ways of teaching. The college is also working to augment the clinical setting for students. With the help of federal grant funding, for instance, the college developed a simulated hospital setting, where students can train on robotic dummies.   https://www.businessreport.com/article/louisiana-needs-7000-nurse-practitioners-next-5-years-meet-growing-demand-olol-college-president-says

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Permits filed for several major hospital projects in Baton Rouge and Water Institute headquarters at City Dock            

New details on several major, previously announced projects in Baton Rouge were revealed today in permit filings with the city-parish Planning Commission.

Permits were filed by today’s deadline to get on the commission’s Oct. 19 meeting agenda for Our Lady of The Lake’s Children’s Hospital, the Center for Breast and GYN Cancer set for the Woman’s Hospital campus in partnership with Mary Bird Perkins-OLOL Cancer Center, and the $22 million, 33,000-square-foot building to be constructed on the City Dock for The Water Institute of the Gulf’s headquarters.

When OLOL announced the Children’s Hospital project in late July, details on square footage were not yet available. Today’s application says the hospital complex—which will be built on a 60-acre tract of hospital-owned property that runs parallel to Interstate 10 between Essen Lane and Bluebonnet Boulevard—would include three buildings totalling 454,200 square feet. Of that, 345,600 square feet would consist of the Children’s Hospital, while an affiliated medical office building would consist of 95,000 square feet and another 14,200 square feet would be used for supporting infrastructure.

As currently envisioned, the Children’s Hospital will include inpatient beds, an emergency room, surgical unit and a dedicated hematology/oncology unit that will be affiliated with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis. Construction on the hospital is expected to take two years once it is underway. The target opening date is some time in 2018.

Once completed, the facility will greatly expand OLOL’s ability to care for pediatric patients. The existing Children’s Hospital, located within the hospital’s main building on Essen Lane, is just one floor of the main tower. It treats 100,000 patients annually from across Louisiana Mississippi and Texas.

See a rendering of the Children’s Hospital.

Details were also scant on the Center for Breast and GYN Cancer when it was announced in March, but today’s filing sheds a little light on the project. The center will be located on 4.5 acres at the Woman’s campus on Airline Highway, and would include about 74,000 square feet and 148 parking spaces. Woman’s spokeswoman Aimee Goforth says further details are not available at this time.

“Basically, this is the first step towards moving forward with the new cancer center, but we haven’t applied for our construction permits yet and have not set a construction timeline,” she says.

Also today, a final development plan application was filed for the The Water Institute of the Gulf’s Headquarters, Research and Interpretive Center on the City Dock as part of The Water Campus development. A new rendering of the building was released earlier this week, with officials saying the project will get under construction this year and is expected to be completed in July 2017. See the rendering.   https://www.businessreport.com/article/permits-filed-several-major-hospital-projects-baton-rouge-water-institute-headquarters-city-dock

Do we have a site plan for this new hospital around?   I'm not well versed at navigating the city-parish website...assuming they've applied for planning commission approval.

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Do we have a site plan for this new hospital around?   I'm not well versed at navigating the city-parish website...assuming they've applied for planning commission approval.

I would assume they have site plan because they planned for the Children Hospital to open in 2018.

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At Mary Bird Perkins-Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center, architecture and design are part of the treatment 

When planning the renovation and expansion of the Mary Bird Perkins-Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center in Baton Rouge, one question served as the “centering point” for the entire project, Cancer Center Administrator Linda Lee tells Business Report in a feature from the current issue.

“What is it like if you’re a human being, and you’re at your doctor’s office, and you find out you have cancer?” she says.

The center already had top-notch clinicians and staff, she says. Now they have a building that is more comfortable, welcoming and efficient for the patients.

Perhaps the most dramatic aspect of the nearly complete renovation is the two-story stained-glass wall that catches the eye as you walk in through the main entrance. Each of the hundreds of shards of yellow, orange, red, green and blue glass were hand glued by local artist Stephen Wilson.

The other side of the glass wall can be seen up close from the second-floor meditation room. Designed with the patients in mind, the mostly wood-paneled room also hosts guided meditation for staff twice a week, Lee says.

Art, much of it abstract, can be found throughout the Cancer Center and often is employed as wayfinding markers along with traditional signs. Beyond the pleasing aesthetics, the hope is that an interesting, soothing piece can serve as a distraction, if only for a moment, from the stress of cancer treatment.

The materials inside of the building, including a lot of wood and stone, were chosen purposefully to avoid creating a cold, sterile environment. Project architect Brenda Bush-Moline of VOA Associates says the firm practices “biophilic design,” which helps patients receive treatment “when they’re their very best selves.” Bush-Moline also designed the LSU Health building and the East Tower at Our Lady of the Lake, according to VOA’s website.

“Being in an environment that has cues to nature and has natural elements has literally been proven to reduce stress,” she says.  https://www.businessreport.com/article/mary-bird-perkins-lady-lake-cancer-center-architecture-design-part-treatment

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Baton Rouge General moving burn unit to Bluebonnet from Mid City since that campus closed its emergency room                                    

Baton Rouge General officials said they are working on plans to move their Regional Burn Center from the hospital’s Mid City campus to the Bluebonnet Boulevard medical center.

 

The burn center is being moved to eliminate the need to transfer patients across town from the Baton Rouge General emergency room on Bluebonnet to the Mid City campus on Florida Boulevard.

The emergency room at Baton Rouge General Mid City closed on March 31 because of rising costs associated with treating uninsured patients.

No timetable has been set yet for the move, but Olivia Hwang, a spokeswoman with the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals said her agency has given Baton Rouge General approval for moving the burn unit.

“Baton Rouge General is firmly committed to providing the very best, state-of-the-art care to burn patients,” Mark Slyter, president and chief executive officer of Baton Rouge General/General Health System, said in a statement. “Working with DHH is an early step in realizing our vision to relocate the Regional Burn Center to our Bluebonnet campus.”

About 30 people work in the burn unit, which can accommodate 12 patients at a time.

Baton Rouge General officials said the unit has taken care of more than 10,000 patients in the past decade, accounting for about 90 percent of all burn accidents in the region. The center was the first designated burn facility in Louisiana and one of 125 specialized burn centers in the United State.  http://theadvocate.com/news/13815979-148/baton-rouge-general-moving-burn  

 

At this point look like they are trying to close BR General Mid City because they moving everything to the Bluebonnet location.  May be that was their plans all along when they closed the ER at the Mid City location.

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