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Newcomers to this area can look forward to some of the most highly respected and progressive healthcare resources in the world. The post-Katrina world has emerged with an exceptionally strong network of community health centers that are being praised as a model for the entire nation. Some of America’s finest health systems and hospitals are located in this area, led by Ochsner Medical Center with a Number One ranking and the only Louisiana hospital recognized as “Best Hospital” across eight specialty rankings by US News & World Report. Children’s Hospital provides advanced care in more than 40 pediatric specialties. The only full-service hospital exclusively for children in Louisiana and the Gulf South, Children’s has such an outstanding reputation that it accepts referrals from across the nation and several foreign countries. Another prestigious institution is Tulane Medical Center, an acclaimed research and medical facility that also serves as the primary teaching hospital for the Tulane University School of Medicine. The all-new University Medical Center in downtown New Orleans is already a model of post-Katrina, catastrophe-resistant architectural wonder. Throughout the parish, world-class teaching hospitals and medical centers combine with emergency care centers, family practice clinics, and physicians in every possible specialty and subspecialty to meet every need close to home.

Orleans Parish provides first-rate educational opportunities beginning with quality learning environments in public and private schools from preschool through high school. Delgado Community College maintains its original campus adjacent to New Orleans City Park, ensuring opportunities for an affordable start on a four-year degree as well as a wide selection of certification and two-year degree programs. Distinguished as Louisiana’s oldest and largest community college system, Delgado also serves as a center for professional and advanced technology career education and traditional occupational training. Herzing University provides career-oriented higher education with an emphasis on programs in healthcare, business, public safety, and technology & design. Public institutions of higher education include Southern University at New Orleans and Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans, the latter with six professional schools and twelve Centers of Excellence. The University of New Orleans is recognized by the Princeton Review as one of the nation’s finest institutions for undergraduate education and featured in the latest guide among “The Best 378 Colleges.” Also included on that list is the private Jesuit institution, Loyola University New Orleans. Tulane University is another prestigious private institution offering undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees in the liberal arts, science and engineering, architecture, business, law, social work, medicine and public health, and tropical medicine. Dillard University, Our Lady of Holy Cross College, and Xavier University of Louisiana add to the impressive list of private schools.