University Facilities
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University campus is located near Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and consists of twelve buildings within the perimeters of Hennessy Boulevard, Essen Lane, Picardy Avenue, and Dijon Drive.
It's 75,000 square foot signature building, St. Francis Hall, opened in May 2023 and houses the school's administrative offices (president, mission identity, academic affairs), enrollment management and student affairs services, a simulated environment teaching hospital (SETH), the library, educational technology, help desk, classrooms, conference rooms, and open study spaces for students. St. Francis Hall is located at 5414 Brittany Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808.
The SETH is a clinical simulation learning environment where students practice clinical skills and interprofessional collaboration in a safe and controlled environment utilizing life-like mannequins and standardized patients. Comprised of multiple labs that imitate various clinical settings, the SETH’s high fidelity simulation rooms include clinic exam rooms, a birthing suite, an intensive care unit (ICU), operating rooms, emergency room bays, a medication room and a pediatric suite and medical surgical simulation space. In addition, there is a mental health unit that can be transitioned and utilized as a community health environment. SETH also includes several debriefing rooms and space where students can practice low fidelity skills on task trainers.
The offices of admission, bursar, campus ministry, financial aid, health and safety, registrar, and enrollment management/student affairs administration are located on the second floor of St. Francis Hall. Student Affairs provides advising and counseling services as well as a food pantry and student organization coordination, including the Student Government Association.
The departments of Finance and Operations and Institution Advancement are located in Suite A of the Administration Annex building. Suite B houses the Technology Services Center (TSC) including information services, wireless computer access and a help desk. The help desk provides assistance with technology issues to faculty, staff and students who visit TSC in person.
The Biological Learning and Research Building consists of a large multi-purpose classroom, digital conference spaces, and teaching laboratories for the disciplines of anatomy & physiology, general biology, biochemistry and microbiology. Also included in this facility is a state-of-the-art molecular biology and tissue culture laboratories to facilitate faculty and student research opportunities, and offices for biology faculty.
The Health Professions and the Health Professions Annex Building house the following programs: doctor physical therapy, physical therapist assistant, radiologic technology, respiratory therapy. Also located here are two Anatomage tables, a conference room/faculty lounge, classrooms, the Dean’s suite and faculty offices.
The Graduate Clinical Education Building houses the physician assistant studies and the nurse anesthesia programs. Both programs have classrooms and skills laboratories located in the building. The nurse anesthesia faculty and administrative offices are also located there. The physician assistant skills laboratory contains medical care equipment designed to simulate a patient care area with spaces for charting and other activities and faculty and administrative offices are located in the Sciences Building. The nurse anesthesia clinical simulation laboratory is designed to replicate a realistic operating setting with complete anesthesia setups, including adult and infant human patient simulators, and two operating room setups.
Liberal Arts Building houses classrooms, the Center for Innovative Teaching and Engagement (CITE) office and the School of Arts and Sciences dean and faculty offices.
Nursing Building houses Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master's of Science in Nursing, Nutritional Sciences, along with the office of the Endowed Chair of Gerontological Nursing, three classrooms, four nursing skills laboratories, the dean’s office, faculty offices, conference areas, and student and faculty lounge areas.
Sciences Building consists of a classroom, laboratories for chemistry, medical laboratory sciences, microbiology, and faculty and student lounges. The building also houses faculty and administrative offices for FranU's department of science as well as the medical laboratory sciences and physician assistant programs. The medical laboratory science laboratory allows students to practice a variety of diagnostic testing on blood and body fluids that include blood counts, coagulation testing, blood typing/compatibility testing, bacterial cultures, fungal/parasite examinations, chemistry analysis using sophisticated instrumentation, and molecular biology techniques such as DNA/chromosome analyses.