About SJPH
Please be reassured that, here, we are people helping other people and often through very difficult times. We constantly make strides to help make you feel more welcome, comfortable, and secure here at your hometown hospital.
Our vision is to unite the parish by being the community’s first choice for all health and wellness needs by leading innovations to make care more convenient, comprehensive, coordinated, and advanced in order to offer the very best value. This goal drives us to continually assess the needs of our area in order to bring in more technology, services, and physicians so that our community can take advantage of the best healthcare, close to home.
I hope that you will experience caring from the heart while you are at St. James Parish Hospital. It is important to me that our patients and family members trust that they will be provided the highest quality care in a safe environment. I want you to see for yourself that we are “large enough to serve, small enough to care.”
Warmest Regards,
Mary Ellen Pratt, CEO
The Meaning of our logo
The heartbeat element signifies our skill and competence in providing you with the best technology and broadest scope of services within our capability. We have shown this through the purchase of new equipment, upgrading technology, installing medica; charting, and investing in staff training.
The heart element indicates our focus on caring. We understand that, at the essence of what we do, we are people helping other people. We have shown our commitment to caring through monitoring patient satisfaction scores. We want to know how you feel about the service we provide, and we are dedicated to providing excellent care.
The butterfly symbolizes our compassion for people and our desire for renewal. We pledge to continuously challenge ourselves to become the best community hospital. We have shown our commitment to renewal with the building of a new hospital, and we will continue to pursue excellence in all we do.
The river element represents the community we serve. We see that the current of the river brings life to our area and economy. We have shown our commitment to the community by expanding services to meet your needs with the addition of specialty clinics, sleep study, and gastrointestinal services, as well as 24- hour in house and radiology and laboratory.
