Healthcare

🔒 Deal between Baton Rouge General and Ochsner months behind schedule, but both sides say they’re still talking

When officials with New Orleans-based Ochsner Health System and General Health System, which owns...

🔒 A shortage of medical coders prompts a Baton Rouge entrepreneur to launch a new training business

Sherie Phillips Thomas assists one of her students at the Louisiana Healthcare Institute,...

🔒 Laura O’Brien’s nonprofit is passing along messages of fitness and empowerment to others

(Photo by Don Kadair) Laura O'Brien Owner, Fitness Design for Women; Zachary mayor pro tempore Laura O’Brien,...

🔒 Dantin Bruce acquires 15 acres in Baton Rouge Health District, plans mixed-use development

Developers Brian Dantin and Ross Bruce, principals of Dantin Bruce Development, have acquired two...

🔒 An increasing number of amateur athletes is a boon for Baton Rouge sports medicine professionals

Though Peak Physical Therapy co-owner Chris Purvis, left, counts some serious athletes like former Southern...

🔒 Riegel: Critics of the new north Baton Rouge ER plan chose to ignore the facts

It is maddening, though not entirely unexpected, that a handful of critics would decry...

🔒 How Avie Nutraceuticals evolved from an idea to help Hector Alila’s Tanzania hometown

When the desire to help the poor in a developing country combined with the...

🔒 New ER will increase access to health care in north Baton Rouge, OLOL officials say

Officials with Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center say their plans for...

🔒 Deal reached between state, OLOL to create north Baton Rouge emergency room

The state and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center have reached an...