2021 Perdido Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70161

University Hospital, formerly Hotel Dieu named for the famed hospital in Paris, first opened its doors on January 2, 1859, there were initially five patients. Early cases treated were fevers of all types, pulmonary problems, pneumonia, yellow fever, dysentery, cholera, malaria, typhoid, contusions, stabbings, and gunshot wounds. During the post-Civil War years, the hospital arranged to care for the sick or ill seamen in the port city of New Orleans. The first registered nurses to come to New Orleans arrived at Hotel Dieu in 1895 from Boston. With them came the first sterilization procedures. In 1899 the School of Nursing opened. In 1924 the second hospital building was erected on Tulane Avenue and was demolished for an entirely new structure.

The present facility opened in 1972. There are 461 licensed beds, and a 23 bed skilled nursing facility. More than 10,500 patients are treated at University Hospital yearly.