Healthcare

A lack of mental health resources is draining Baton Rouge’s finances and clogging its bloated ERs and parish prison

Joe, 55, suffers from schizophrenia. He lives in a Baton Rouge retirement and assisted...

Read Business Report’s Trends in Health Care 2017

Mental health. Disaster planning. Medicaid. New technology. Those issues—and plenty more—are highlighted in in the...

Entrepreneur: Katie Green

(Photography by Brian Baiamonte) POSITION Owner and practitioner COMPANY Green Living Holistic Health & Therapy WHAT THEY DO A whole body...

Majority of Louisianans open to increased taxes for education, health care and transportation infrastructure

(Photo courtesy iStock) Louisianans in recent years have grown more tolerant—or at least less critical—of...

Head Health Network, partnering with LSU Tigers, wins PitchBR

Head Health Network, a local company that installs sensors in helmets to detect and...

Louisianans favor combination of tax increases and spending cuts, survey finds

Most Louisiana residents want lawmakers to use a combination of tax increases and spending...

The future for the proposed Bridge Center looks bleaker than ever

(File photo) For the second time in three months, an effort to fund a mental...

Local IT company providing advice on potential changes to Affordable Care Act

While the U.S. House of Representatives is moving quickly to repeal the Affordable Care...

Republicans in Louisiana likely immune from any GOP health care fallout

Republicans in Congress may be feeling political pressure surrounding the effort to repeal and...

New health plan must offer strong alternative to existing mandate, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana says

Any replacement to the Affordable Care Act should provide adequate tax credits for people...