Our Lady of Lourdes Announces Growth Expansion and Changes to Emergency Room Services
September 18, 2025
LAFAYETTE, LA – As part of the Advancing Acadiana strategic growth plan, Our Lady of Lourdes Health is expanding our emergency room network by 20 new beds. In late September, eleven additional ER beds will open at the Regional Medical Center at 4801 Ambassador Caffery. Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s has plans underway to annex a new ER patient unit with nine rooms. The goal is to see more patients, improve staffing efficiencies and focus on patient throughput affecting ER wait times.
Lourdes team members from the Emergency Room at the Heart Hospital will be relocating to the new beds at Ambassador Caffery to more effectively offer care to this community. At midnight, Friday, September 26, 2025, Our Lady of Lourdes Heart Hospital will no longer offer ER services at their location. The Heart Hospital five ER beds will close and relocate to the emergency department at the Regional Medical Center.
Over $25M of construction will expand the surgical capacity on the Heart Hospital campus. Rooms currently used for ER services will be repurposed to ambulatory bays supporting the pre and post operative needs of the hospital. The Advancing Acadiana plan includes two new operating rooms, an electrophysiology lab and a new 8-bed inpatient unit at Our Lady of Lourdes Heart Hospital on Kaliste Saloom.
For a sneak peek of the newly expanded ER at the Regional Medical Center, email Communications.Lourdes@fmolhs.org to schedule a visit.
About Our Lady of Lourdes Health
Founded by the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady in 1949, Our Lady of Lourdes Health is a not–for–profit Catholic healthcare ministry based in Lafayette, Louisiana. With a regional acute care medical center that employs more than 2,800 people, Our Lady of Lourdes Health offers a physician staff of over 850 doctors in a variety of medical and surgical specialties. Lourdes’ services include Centers of Excellence in the areas of Orthopedics, Stroke and a Robotic Surgery Program. Lourdes is home to the only burn unit in Southwest Louisiana and a Commission on Cancer-accredited oncology program. Our Lady of Lourdes operates Our Lady of Lourdes Heart Hospital, a premier 32-bed cardiac facility, and Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital, offering the area’s only Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Level III Surgical Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. With additional services including multiple clinics, four imaging locations and a primary care physician network, Lourdes provides easy access to comprehensive care throughout the community. Our Lady of Lourdes is part of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System and is driven by its mission to serve all God’s people, especially those most in need. Discover more at LourdesRMC.com.