Every 85 seconds, a home burns in the United States. Besides the obvious safety benefits, learn what financial benefits a home sprinkler system can offer.

Ochsner Employer Solutions offers three comprehensive Safe to Return plans, as well as an array of optional, a la carte products and services. Whatever your business needs, Ochsner can help you get back to business while putting the health and safety of your employees and customers first.

Putting off appointments, medical procedures and routine children’s care may be putting your family at greater risk than you think.

Because COVID-19 is a respiratory disease, it can only be diagnosed through the collection of a nasal swab. We have all seen images of healthcare workers collecting nasal swabs, but have you ever wondered what type of healthcare professional is actually performing the tests on those swabs?

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, known as the CARES Act, provides our five-state region (Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and New Mexico) $236 million for the creation of projects that spur economic growth and create jobs following this pandemic.

What researchers at Pennington Biomedical Research Center saw in a serendipitous opportunity to evaluate the inadvertent changes in health behaviors because of widespread global restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

A large number of people with COVID-19 are asymptomatic. Others recover quickly while many suffer severe symptoms including profound respiratory distress. A significant number die from the infection. What are the driving causes of this variability?

The Respiratory Therapist is an essential need in modern healthcare and those who have answered the call to become an RCP get great satisfaction from their work. Ralph Waldo Emerson said it best, “To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” This is the mission of the Respiratory Therapist.

Our Lady of the Lake is offering exclusive partnerships for businesses of all sizes to gain access to rapid COVID-19 testing, antibody testing, training for employees and screeners, a designated physician liaison and an infection safety assessment of your workplace with recommendations. 

Find yourself cooking more lately? Maybe you’ve been considering a new hobby or finally doing that genealogy research on your family tree? Whatever you are into, the East Baton Rouge Parish Library has digital resources to match.