University Facilities
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University campus is located near Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and consists of ten buildings within the perimeters of Hennessy Boulevard, Essen Lane, Picardy Avenue, and Dijon Drive.
Its 75,000 square foot signature building, St. Francis Hall, located at 5414 Brittany Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808, opened in May 2023 and houses the school's administrative offices (president, mission identity, and academic affairs), enrollment management, student affairs services, a simulated environment teaching hospital (SETH), the library, educational technology, classrooms, conference rooms, the Learning Resource Center, and open study spaces for students. The University Help Desk (IT Tech Bar) is located in St. Francis Hall, as well, and provides assistance with technology issues to faculty, staff, and students who visit the help desk in person. Also located here in the building are two Anatomage tables (3D anatomy and virtual dissection platforms).
The Chapel of St. Francis at La Verna is located in St. Francis Hall. It is approximately 1,100 square feet, two stories tall, and includes a balcony for meditative prayer. The chapel holds services weekly and on special feast days of the Church.
SETH is a 20,000 square foot state-of-the-art clinical simulation learning environment where students practice clinical skills and interprofessional collaboration in a safe and controlled environment utilizing high fidelity mannequins and standardized patients. Comprised of multiple labs that imitate various clinical settings, SETH’s high fidelity simulation rooms include a birthing suite, an intensive care unit (ICU), two operating rooms, pediatric room, neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), and two medical-surgical rooms. In addition, there is an emergency room with five bays, a medication room, home health simulation space, medical lab science lab, a pharmacy, a phlebotomy area, a telemedicine suite, an x-ray room, and 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 admissions, bursar, financial aid, health and wellness, enrollment management, and student affairs are located on the second floor of St. Francis Hall. Student Affairs provides advising and counseling services, campus ministry, as well as a food pantry, and serves as the coordination for the student organizations (e.g., the Student Government Association).
The Administration Annex has two suites. The departments of Finance and Operations and Institutional Advancement are located in Suite A. Suite B houses the Technology Services Center (TSC) that handles footprint tickets campus-wide and provides backend infrastructure support.
The Biological Learning and Research Building (BLRB) 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 are state-of-the-art laboratories, including those for microbiology, molecular biology, tissue culture, and zebrafish research to facilitate faculty and student research opportunities. The biology faculty offices are housed here, as well.
The Health Professions building houses the classrooms and labs for the following programs: doctor physical therapy, physical therapist assistant, radiologic technology, and respiratory therapy.
The Health Professions Annex Building is home to physical therapy and physical therapist assistant faculty and staff offices. In addition, there is a large conference room, four case study rooms, a faculty lounge, and student lounge.
The Health Profession Faculty Administration building houses the Health Profession Dean’s office as well as the faculty offices for physician assistant, respiratory therapy, radiologic technology, medical lab science, and nutritional sciences.
The Graduate Clinical Education Building (GCEB) is home to the physician assistant and nurse anesthesia programs. The building has separate classrooms and simulation laboratories dedicated to each program. The nurse anesthesia program faculty and administrative offices are also located here. The physician assistant skills laboratory is equipped with medical care tools replicating a patient care area, with spaces for charting and other related activities. Similarly, the Nurse Anesthesia Skills and Clinical Simulation Lab is an additional practice space for the Nurse Anesthesia Program, where students can refine their skills and simulate different scenarios. Although most of the anesthesia training takes place in SETH, this extra lab provides a simulated surgical environment with anesthesia machines, Laerdal SimMan full-body high-fidelity simulators, ultrasound machines, and various other trainers.
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. Psychology, great books, business administration, health sciences, and theology undergraduate programs are housed here, along with graduate programs in healthcare administration & applied behavior analysis.
The School of Nursing building houses Bachelor of Science in nursing, Master of Science in Nursing, along with the office of the Endowed Chair of Gerontological Nursing, four classrooms, three 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, and faculty and student lounges. The building also houses faculty and administrative offices for FranU's Department of Science.