The Greater Shreveport area is the healthcare center for Northwest Louisiana. There are 21 hospitals, with 3,066 beds and 1,500 physicians within the four-parish CSA.

LSU Health Sciences Center

• Academic Health Sciences Center
• University Teaching Hospital
• School of Medicine
• School of Allied Health Professions
• School of Graduate Studies
• Regional referral center with Board Certified / Board Eligible Physicians
• 436-bed facility
• Level One - Trauma Unit

Christus Schumpert Health Systems have been a local institution since 1894. The Hospital was started as a mission of the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word and continues to grow under the leadership of the Christus organization of Dallas TX. Christus Schumpert has three primary care facilites within Shreveport-Bossier with a separate specialty facility for Orthopedics and Sports Medicine. Christus Schumpert stands on the cutting edge of new technology branching into services within the Bariatric and Diabetes Center, Senior Care and the Grace home for Hospice. One of Schumperts proudest achievements to date is the Sutton Children’s Hospital. The facility has the latest in childcare technology in a kid friendly atmosphere.

Willis Knighton Health Care System is a primary care system with four full service hospitals within Bossier and Shreveport and multiple clinics servicing the entire MSA. Willis Knighton has provided many services that have revolutionized medicine in our markets. These services include the Willis-Knighton Heart Institute, The Steen Hall Eye Institute, the Center for Women’s Health and a state of the art Cancer Treatment and Research Center.

Willis Knighton Bossier started serving the citizens of Bossier City in 1995. With the rapid growth of Bossier, Willis Knighton has had to double the capacity of the hospital as well as construct several clinic facilities on the campus to accommodate the growing population.

Feist Weiler Cancer Center

The Feist-Weiller Cancer Center is part of the LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. The Center offers preeminent cancer research, cancer prevention programs, and excellent care for cancer patients. The Feist-Weiller Cancer Center has a special partnership with St. Jude Children's Research Hospital through which area children are treated under the protocols from St. Jude.

Among the signature strengths of the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center is "translational" cancer research. This process takes a clinical problem encountered at a patient's bedside to scientists in the research laboratories to solve. The solution is applied back to the patient at the bedside.

Feist-Weiller Cancer Center patients have the opportunities to participate in clinical trials with the newest treatments for combating cancer. The Feist-Weiller Cancer Center is humbled by the number of patients who, by their own choice, take part in experimental therapies. The Center is a leading enroller for numerous clinical trials.

Shriners Hospital for Children

• 1st of 22 Shriners Hospitals in North America
• Free of charge Pediatric Orthopedic Hospital
• Specialty - the treatment of bone, joint and muscle problems in children
• 45-bed facility

• Serving more than 130,000 veterans in the Ark-La-Tex area
• Local coordinator for the National Disaster Medical System
• Local coordinator for the VA/DOD Contingency Hospital System
• 112-bed facility

• 10-story research facility with 56 wet labs
• Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Imaging Center
• Manages the InterTech Science Park
• Consortium for Education, Research and Technology (CERT) - a partnership of north Louisiana's nine colleges and universities promoting collaboration projects amongst campuses
• Mathematics, Science and Technology (MST) Program for middle and high school students to improve math, science and technology learning outcomes
• Science and Medicine Academic Research Training (SMART) Program and Science Research Teacher Program (SRT) provides area high school seniors and science teachers the opportunity to conduct scientific research with prinicipal investigators at LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport