The Northshore’s home for surgical excellence.

For more than 65 years, the surgeons of St. Tammany Health System have been raising the bar and pushing the envelope to deliver Northshore residents the most innovative, comprehensive and safe healthcare options available.

That forward-thinking approach continues today, with the 90-plus staff members in our Surgical Department providing a full range of inpatient and outpatient surgical services – 5,000 every year – in our 12 state-of-the-art operating rooms. That includes everything from minimally invasive techniques for general surgeries to a raft of specialty surgeries, including robotic-assisted procedures for orthopedics and neurosciences patients.

And we’re not done. Long established as the first robotics institute on the I-12 corridor, we’re committed to continuously learning new, groundbreaking surgical techniques to go along with the compassion, dignity, privacy and respect we provide all patients and families in all life stages. In other places, that kind of quality and innovation might merely be a goal. At. St. Tammany Health System, it’s a time-tested Northshore tradition.

We want your surgical procedure to be as easy and stress-free as possible, which is why we take such pride in the work done at our Pre-Operative Evaluation Clinic, located at our Cordes Outpatient Pavilion, as well the pre- and post-operative care provided at our Ambulatory Care Center, located on our main hospital campus in Covington. 

What’s more, making an appointment is fast and simple. Just call 985-871-5665 for the Pre-Op Clinic, which provides convenient access to a range of diagnostic tests as well as a face-to-face interview with a nurse who will answer your questions and tell you everything you need to know to prepare for your surgery. 

Alternately, you can call 985-898-4404 for our Ambulatory Care Center, which provides the above-listed services as well as pre- and post-op nursing care in a comfortable and clean environment.