[2] The plan also called for LCMC Health to acquire University Medical Center Management Corporation (UMCMC), a non profit corporation originally established to manage and operate the University Medical Center, a $1.1 billion facility that opened on August 1, 2015.

University Hospital opened as Hôtel-Dieu (French for House of God) in 1859 and was operated by the Daughters of Charity.

In 1913, it was the first hospital in the United States to have air conditioning in its surgical suites, and it was the site of milestone medical research that developed sulfonamide drug treatment for meningitis in the 1940s.

It was purchased by the Louisiana State University System in 1991, renamed and converted into a teaching hospital for the adjacent medical school, which it also oversaw.

[7] Interim LSU Hospital was closed on August 1, 2015, with all patients and services being moved to the newly built University Medical Center New Orleans.