Global and Community Health

Health Centers in Schools

Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health Centers in Schools and community-based teams are the collaboration of education, public health and school health professionals to improve our children’s development and well-being. Our school-based health centers provide comprehensive health services and wellness education to students in grades K-12 in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System, operating seven full-service clinics. Learn more about the services we provide to our different locations.

Our Community Outreach

Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital Baton Rouge Children’s Health Project provides critically needed medical and mental health services to underserved children and families in the Baton Rouge area. Primary Care residents rotate on to this service and travel around the parish to schools providing more access to healthcare to children across our community. Learn more about our Mobile Health Units.

We believe residents must learn to be advocates for their patients during residency in order to continue to serve as effective advocates as pediatricians. Every intern participates in a focused Community Medicine rotation that provides an understanding of the problems and challenges in mobilizing community resources aimed at delivering safe, effective, efficient and timely care for their pediatric patients.

During this rotation, interns learn about the challenges and disparities facing our local community, evaluate state policies and legislative processes as related to child health, and engage in efforts to advocate for change. All residents choose an individualized second month of Advocacy and/or Community Medicine that allows them to further explore and promote their areas of interest. Each resident completes an individualized project or advocacy hours focused on an individual, community, state or national child health issue that they feel committed to as pediatricians.