Fertility Center

Fertility Institute of New Orleans

Mandeville, LA

SART MemberLab Accredited1,059 Annual Cycles

Services Offered

IVFIUIGenetic Testing (PGT)Egg FreezingEmbryo FreezingDonor EggDonor SpermFertility PreservationMale InfertilityLGBTQ+ Family Building

About

The Fertility Institute of New Orleans (FINO) was founded in 1976 by Dr. Richard Dickey, who left the LSU School of Medicine to open what the practice describes as Louisiana's first fertility clinic. Since a 2021 acquisition it has been part of First Fertility, a multi-state network of fertility practices, while keeping its own name and physicians.

The Mandeville office is a satellite clinic on the North Shore of Lake Pontchartrain, inside the Causeway Executive Suites at 800 N. Causeway Boulevard, Suite 2C, with free on-site parking. Dr. Warren "Jay" Huber, Dr. Peter Lu and Dr. Stacey Scheib see patients here. The office handles consultations, fertility testing and semen analysis, ovulation induction, IUI, and monitoring for IVF and fertility-preservation cycles, including egg and embryo freezing. Egg retrievals, embryo transfers and surgery take place at FINO's main Metairie location, which houses the IVF laboratory and surgery center.

The practice serves couples, single parents and LGBTQ+ patients and also offers genetic testing of embryos, donor egg or sperm IVF, and male infertility care through its main office.

IVF Success Rates

CDC 2022 data — the most recent final figures published

Diagnosis

Own Eggs

Live birth rate per intended egg retrieval

Age Group	This Clinic	National
<35	49.4%	49.7%
35-37	27.3%	36.3%
38-40	25.3%	23.1%
>40	8.5%	7.7%

Sample: 432 cycles at this clinic

Donor Eggs

Live birth rate per embryo transfer

Egg / Embryo Type	This Clinic	National
Fresh embryo, fresh egg	—	52.0%
Fresh embryo, frozen egg	—	45.2%
Frozen embryo	—	45.1%
Donated embryo	33.3%	42.2%

Sample: 54 cycles at this clinic

Three-year trend

Overall figures only — CDC publishes the diagnosis breakdown for 2022 alone.

Age Group	2020	2021	2022
<35	36.8%	48.1%	49.4%
35-37	32.3%	26.1%	27.3%
38-40	17.1%	19.4%	25.3%
>40	12.9%	8.9%	8.5%

Success rates depend heavily on which patients a clinic accepts, so these numbers should not be used to rank clinics against one another. Cells CDC suppressed for small sample sizes (1-4 cycles) are shown as a dash.