Healthcare

Hospitals, medical practices, health systems, and the business of healthcare across the Capital Region.

Virus response: Baton Rouge biotech firm now producing hand sanitizer

A Baton Rouge-based biotech company has switched gears from making topical dermatology products to...

Virus roundup … 

• Gov. John Bel Edwards is requesting a Major Disaster Declaration for the state...

LWC issues emergency rule for injured workers

The Louisiana Workforce Commission has issued an emergency rule geared toward ensuring injured workers...

Analysis: Coronavirus creates strange politics in Louisiana 

Disasters often make strange bedfellows, but the new coronavirus has thawed some of the...

Ochsner to begin in-house testing as health care system faces overload 

Ochsner Health System is moving its COVID-19 testing in-house at its New Orleans-area medical...

Telemed use spikes as area hospitals battle coronavirus spread

With patients pouring into local hospitals and health care facilities—some hoping to get tested...

Virus roundup …  

• Louisianans are asked to submit their questions online about COVID-19 ahead of a...

Louisiana Department of Insurance issues new rules for insurers  

Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon yesterday issued an emergency rule that aims to...

Virus roundup… 

• Baton Rouge General is asking construction companies, industry organizations and dental and medical...

Statewide status: Gov. Edwards gives coronavirus update 

Two more New Orleans residents have died from the coronavirus spreading across the country,...
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