Healthcare

The Pennington family is withdrawing its financial support for Pennington Cancer Center at Baton Rouge General after 23 years and has given the hospital permission to remove signage and marketing materials containing the Pennington name. 

The U.S. Economic Development Administration has awarded the Baton Rouge Health District $2.7 million to support infrastructure upgrades. 

Our Lady of the Lake Health has purchased a 40% minority stake in Baton...

Very few employers systematically track their employees’ health and wellbeing, which means many are...

The playing field has begun to even out for women in the 10 highest paying occupations in America, a new Pew Research Center study finds. 

Our Lady of the Lake, Our Lady of the Lake Ascension and Ochsner Baton Rouge each garnered A ratings for patient safety from the Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Grades Program, which reviews more than 2,600 facilities across the country and generates a report card for twice a year.

As health care costs rise, some small business owners are moving away from group...

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, parent company of Our Lady of the Lake, has ended its bid to purchase Mississippi’s Singing River Health System. 

After nearly 70 years at its current site, the LSU AgCenter Dairy Store is getting ready to move. 

Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center is now enrolling patients into phase 1 clinical trials, an expansion of its services, the center announced this morning.