CHRISTUS Health expands Highland location

CHRISTUS Health Shreveport- Bossier announced May 20 a new strategic direction, which will change how it delivers health care to the Shreveport-Bossier City area.

It includes an expansion of services and facilities to CHRISTUS Highland Medical Center, the addition of outpatient services at multiple sites in the community and a multi-year plan to repurpose the CHRISTUS Schumpert Medical Center campus.

A capital investment of $55 million will fuel this plan to meet the healthcare needs of the Shreveport-Bossier community.

However, planned expansion at CHRISTUS Highland will mean a shift of services away from the CHRISTUS Schumpert campus, said CHRISTUS Health Louisiana President and CEO Stephen Wright.

“We believe the best use of our Schumpert campus can be determined by working closely with the community,” Wright said.

CHRISTUS Health has engaged the services of Dynamis, a consulting company whose expertise is in working with hospitals and communities to repurpose facilities. Dynamis will work through a process that identifies and explores the viability of community needs which can be met at the Schumpert campus.

Despite the highly skilled physicians and nurses, Sutton Children’s Medical Center has run at a deficit since its inception. Some pediatric services will be shifted to the CHRISTUS Highland campus and some of the more highly specialized pediatric services, including the pediatric intensive care unit, will be phased out.

For more than a year, the CHRISTUS Health Shreveport- Bossier leadership and board studied community growth patterns and points of access for health care.

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