12.9.11 After 70-plus years of medical service to the poor, Huey P. Long Medical Center in Pineville will be shut down, and its operations will move to England Airpark by the summer of 2014.
Gov. Bobby Jindal made the announcement Thursday at the LSU Health Sciences Center building on Vandenburg Drive in England Airpark. The center now serves as an outpatient facility, but it will be renovated to take over medical services now provided at the hospital in Pineville.
A nearby building in the airpark, the former site of St. Rita School, will house the outpatient services.