Emergency Preparedness
Children's Hospital New Orleans has plans in place and is ready to act when emergencies affect our area. Similarly we encourage you to be prepared to implement your emergency plan for yourself and family.
Our emergency preparedness plan is designed to ensure the safety of our patients, and staff. In preparing our plan we worked closely with state and local governments, the Louisiana Hospital Association, LCMC Health, our medical staff and employees.
Winter Storm Update:
Updated 01.19.2025, 4:30 pm
Children's Hospital continues to closely monitor and prepare for the polar front that is moving into our area. The front is expected to impact roads and travel Monday night through Tuesday bringing snow and ice, with freezing temperatures through Thursday.
Our of an abundance of caution, we will be cancelling all clinic, outpatient appointments and elective procedures on Tuesday, January 21 with a decision about Wednesday to be made as we get closer. Our Metairie ER will also suspend operations beginning at 7 pm Monday until roads are safe to travel on. For those whose appointments or procedures need to be rescheduled for, our team will be in touch very soon.
We will continue to update this page with more information as the storm and its impacts move through. Please stay safe and follow necessary precautions.
Children's Hospital has plans in place to ensure the safety of our patients, families and staff
When severe weather threatens New Orleans, LCMC Health and Children's Hospital will activate our emergency plan to provide patients, their family members, and staff with up-to-date information regarding our preparations, announcements about closing and reopening the facilities, and other relevant instructions. In addition, www.lcmchealth.org and www.chnola.org will be updated with vital information.
Please visit this webpage for additional updates. Thank you.
Visitation:
Clinic updates:
Elective procedures:
Prescription hotline:
Pharmacy update:
Employees and providers:
Weather and safety resources:
- FEMA disaster assistance
- Get A Game Plan
- Entergy Outage Map
- Rx Open
- NOLAReady
- Ready America
- National Weather Service