Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Institute
Leading Cancer Treatment for Decades
Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Institute is the region’s leader in providing comprehensive prevention, early detection, treatment and survivorship care. Our teams have a vast network of collaborators across Louisiana to address treatment issues and make discoveries that have a national impact, and most importantly offer each cancer patient individually tailored treatment options. We draw upon resources from our nationally recognized academic medical center and from Our Lady of the Lake’s graduate medical education programs and strong relationships with Louisiana State University and Pennington Biomedical Research Center. Cancer researchers and providers work side by side to advance cancer treatment.
Our Team of Dedicated Providers
Meet our team of highly respected medical oncologists, surgeons, and specialists who are dedicated to patient care and the best clinical outcomes.
OLOLCI is accredited by the American College of Surgeons (ACS), Commission on Cancer (CoC) as a comprehensive community cancer program. To earn voluntary CoC accreditation, OLOLCI has demonstrated compliance with 34 CoC quality care standards, undergoes evaluation every three years through a survey process, and maintains levels of excellence in the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered care.
Additionally, OLOLCI holds a second accreditation from the Commission on Cancer (CoC), National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer (NAPRC). To achieve voluntary NAPRC accreditation, OLOLCI has demonstrated compliance with NAPRC standards addressing program management, clinical services, and quality improvement for patients. OLOLCI has established a multidisciplinary rectal cancer team that includes clinical representatives from surgery, pathology, radiology, radiation oncology, and medical oncology to ensure that rectal cancer patients receive appropriate care using multidisciplinary approach.
The new facility will include more than 80,000 square feet that will be directly connected to the Regional Medical Center to provide ease of access to a full suite of services for all cancer patients. Included in the new facility will be:
- Medical and surgical oncology practices
- Chemotherapy/infusion center with dedicated pharmacy
- Advanced imaging and diagnostics for treatment
- An on-site outpatient pharmacy
- A conference center to facilitate education
- Multidisciplinary disease site-specific clinics
- Palliative care