Healthcare

🔒 Baton Rouge General planning to move burn center from Mid City to Bluebonnet campus

Less than a year after shuttering its Mid City emergency room, Baton Rouge General...

🔒 Effect of Magellan layoffs in Baton Rouge on Perkins Rowe office remains unclear

Citing the loss of a major contract with the state, Magellan Health will lay...

🔒 Louisiana needs 7,000 more nurse practitioners over next 5 years to meet growing demand, OLOL college president says

Within five years, Louisiana will have at least 7,000 fewer nurse practitioners than it...

🔒 The new corporate wellness: Baton Rouge General’s award-winning program goes beyond classes and incentives to incorporate a personalized plan

(Photo by Brian Baiamonte: Personal trainer Alyssa DiMarco works with Linda Edmonson, an administrative...

🔒 Next step for Baton Rouge-based Esperance Pharmaceuticals’ cancer-fighting drug? Clinical trials.

(Photography by Don Kadair: Hector Alila) During the 1990s, Pennington Biomedical Research Center scientist William...

🔒 Designed with patients in mind: At Mary Bird Perkins-Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center, architecture and design are part of the treatment.

(Photo courtesy Mark Bird Perkins-Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center) When planning the renovation...

🔒 LSU files suit against group managing Shreveport, Monroe hospitals

LSU filed suit this afternoon against the Biomedical Research Foundation in Shreveport, the private...

🔒 Pennington introduces new business model with Elite Health and Wellness Program

The Pennington Biomedical Research Center is rolling out a new wellness program for the...

🔒 Nichols stepping down as Jindal’s commissioner of administration for private sector job; Palmieri promoted to fill position

After serving as Gov. Bobby Jindal’s commissioner of administration for the past three years,...

🔒 Permits filed for several major hospital projects in Baton Rouge and Water Institute headquarters at City Dock

New details on several major, previously announced projects in Baton Rouge were revealed today...