With its six-story, red brick building standing prominently on the Essen Lane campus of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center appears very much to be part of the hospital. In fact, many people in Baton Rouge, including some health care professionals, mistakenly assume the institutions are somehow
‘It’s really, really sad that it had to turn into this’
The ending of the Mary Bird Perkins partnership with Our Lady of the Lake is something few saw coming, or thought would ever happen, but now that it has the Baton Rouge health care market will never be the same.
