Xavier University, one of the top-ranked HBCU’s in America, and Ochsner Health, Louisiana’s largest private employer, have announced that they are partnering to form a new medical school, the Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine (XOCOM). XOCOM will be the only HBCU medical school in the Gulf South, and just the fifth one nationally. The last HBCU medical school to open was Morehouse in 1975.