Healthcare

🔒 Our Lady of the Lake is one of just eight teaching hospitals in the nation testing innovation through a new four-year project

OLOL Chief Academic Officer Laurinda Calongne says the Pursuing Excellence in Clinical Learning Environments project's...

🔒 Baton Rouge General and Ochsner kill planned partnership

A deal announced last March that would have created a strategic partnership between New...

🔒 Baton Rouge General Mid City campus ID’d as ideal location for proposed mental health facility

Baton Rouge General Medical Center’s Mid City campus will be the site of a...

🔒 Will Baton Rouge voters approve a new property tax to fund a jail diversion program for the mentally ill?

(Photo by iStock) When voters go to the polls Dec. 10 to elect Baton Rouge’s...

🔒 Metro Council to get first glimpse at mental health center proposal

City-parish officials are moving forward with plans for a crisis stabilization center designed to...

🔒 Celtic Studios director open to leasing movie studio for medical marijuana operation

Celtic Studios is open to the idea of being used as a site for...

🔒 City-parish seeks to speed up prison health care privatization plan after doctor quits

Editors note: This story has been updated since original publication to clarify comments made by...

🔒 Potential investors in Louisiana’s medical marijuana program given overview on partnering with LSU AgCenter

Hundreds of interested investors in the state’s medical marijuana industry packed an auditorium at...