BRF INITIATIVES

BRF maintains and promotes the InterTech Science Park, an 800-acre urban Brownfields, smart growth initiative located in the Kings Highway/Mansfield Road area of Shreveport. The resident companies represent pharmaceutical, digital and entertainment media, drug discovery, venture capital support and environmental industries.

As part of the Governor’s LSU hospital privatization plan, in 2013, BRF orchestrated the transition of the two LSU hospitals in Shreveport and Monroe from state to private management in just 135 days. BRF operates the safety net hospitals under its wholly owned subsidiary — the University Health System. Both hospitals are academic medical centers affiliated with LSU School of Medicine. The transition retained more than 3,000 jobs and more than $800 million in annual economic impact for north Louisiana.

The Entrepreneurial Accelerator Program (EAP), launched in 2014, seeks out and evaluates new products and ideas, and with its team of professional analysts, helps entrepreneurs determine the best business model for their product, and grooms them to present their product to investors.

Future State serves IT and Electronic Medical Record (EMR) needs for health systems – from regional hospitals to private clinics – through its product, EMR Everywhere. EMR Everywhere’s goal is to provide healthcare entities with an affordable, technologically advanced electronic healthcare system via its EPIC healthcare platform.

BRF created the Office for Research Development and Administration (ORDA) in 2015 to seek and pursue new research initiatives and provide support for the conduct of clinical trials towards new treatments and diagnostics, improvement of patient care and economic development of North Louisiana.