CHRISTUS Dubuis Hospital of Alexandria is located within the host facility, CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital which has consistently been recognized as a high-quality health care provider for the more than 400,000 residents of central Louisiana. CHRISTUS Dubuis Hospital of Alexandria opened in December 1993 as a 25 bed facility. Today, it has a total of 33 long-term acute care beds to provide care to medically complex patients. These patients require extended acute care hospitalization with specialty programs focusing on ventilator dependency, wound care, and rehabilitation. Services provided by CHRISTUS Dubuis Hospital of Alexandria include, but are not limited to, the following: 24-hour nursing care, acute and post-ICU medical care, ventilator care and weaning with 24-hour respiratory care, wound care, comprehensive inpatient physical, occupational, and speech rehabilitation, cardiac monitoring, IV therapy, blood transfusions, dialysis, therapeutic nutritional support, pain management, case management, social work services, patient and family education.