A new radio ad featuring Dr. Larry Hollier, LSU Health Sciences Center chancellor, is stirring up controversy in the conflict over whether to build a state teaching hospital in lower Mid-City New Orleans, according to The Times-Picayune.
In the ad, Hollier says, “without a major teaching facility . . . LSU would have to find some other way to train the medical students, dental students, allied health professionals, nursing students. If we can’t do it in New Orleans, we would have to move some of our activityto other areas.”
The Louisiana Health Sciences Center Foundation funded the ad, the Times reported.
Hollier said “If the VA thinks LSU is not with them and chooses another site, New Orleans will lose the LSUHSC to BR, and 3,000 faculty homes in New Orleans will go on the market! We are close to a deal with Our Lady of the Lake to be our main teaching hospital!” inan e-mail to Councilman Arnie Fielkow on Nov. 19.
University officials have denied discussing plans to move the center.—-Contact Katie Kennedy at [email protected]