Ochsner Health System is a non-profit, academic, multi-specialty, healthcare delivery system dedicated to patient care, research and education. The system includes eight hospitals and over 35 health centers located throughout Southeast Louisiana. Ochsner employs more than 750 physicians in over 90 medical specialties and subspecialties and more than 300 clinical research trials annually. Ochsner was ranked one of the Best Places to Work by New Orleans CityBusiness in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, and received the Consumer Choice for Healthcare in New Orleans for 12 consecutive years. Ochsner was ranked as Best Hospital by U.S. News and World Report in Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) in 2007 and as one of the 50 Best Hospitals in America in Heart & Heart Surgery, Urology and ENT in 2009. Ochsner has more than 11,000 employees system-wide.