A Tradition in Excellence and Service continued....

MID STATE has been ranked #1 in Louisiana for overall orthopaedic services and among the nation's best in hip and knee replacements by independent assessments that consider patients outcome, length of hospital stay and cost. The Center has consistently achieved a 97% satisfaction rating among its own patients.

MID STATE also developed a comprehensive sports medicine network - the first of its kind in Central Louisiana- using athletic trainers, physical therapists and orthopaedic doctors to cover more than 50 high schools, Northwestern State University, Louisiana College and local professional teams. The sports medicine emphasis not only focuses on prevention, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries, it also effectively controls costs to schools and athletes. Dr. Rich recently performed an all inside ACL surgical technique on a NSU football athlete, one of the first of these surgeries in the state.

Many thousands of athletes have been certified to play during an annual high school physical day organized by MID STATE Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Center and CHRISTUS Louisiana Sports Medicine, a unit of CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital that works in tandem with MID STATE. The sports medicine program also covers youth leagues and special championship events that come to the area.

In recent years MID STATE Orthopaedic has opened satelite clinics, in Pineville, Jena, Olla, Natchitoches, Ville Platte and Marksville, Louisiana for convenience of its patients, many of whose families have for several generations trusted MID STATE for orthopaedic care.

Terry Texada, MD, Mark Dodson, MD, Todd Drury, MD, Don Perdue, MD, Michael Leddy, MD, William Crenshaw, MD, Chris Rich, MD and Michael Brunet, MD are the orthopaedic surgeons and Paul Sunderhaus, DPM and Marie Saucier, DPM are the podiatrists at MID STATE. They continue to build on a long history of proven excellence and community services in orthopaedic care in the Central Louisiana community.

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