Healthcare

The two-story lobby of Ochsner’s gleaming $116 million medical complex at The Grove was...

Our Lady of the Lake and Baton Rouge General medical centers rank second and third respectively in Louisiana on U.S. News & World Report’s latest list of the nation’s best hospitals, which was made public today.

Nonprofit organization Elder Outreach has bought the office building it has operated out of for years off of Bluebonnet Boulevard.

Louisiana legislators questioned Tuesday whether the state needs to devote more money to fight elder abuse after an investigation showed the Governor’s Office of Elderly Affairs has not adequately responded to reports of mistreatment and neglect.  

Leaders of more than 300 hospitals reported higher revenue in a recent survey, with most of the acceleration happening on the outpatient side. 

Almost two years ago, Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center dissolved their alliance, stunning leaders across the Capital Region health care sector. 

Gerald Bahlinger, the father of LSU student and Tiger Band member Matthew Bahlinger who died by suicide in 2022, has created a new foundation to support the LSU marching band and mental health care on campus, WAFB-TV reports. 

Last year, LSU announced that Our Lady of the Lake and LCMC Health were committing $245 million in LSU over the next 10 years “to transform health care in Louisiana.”

Officials with Our Lady of the Lake are working on a three-phase plan for a $100 million cancer center, says Charles “Chuck” Spicer, the health system’s Baton Rouge market president. 

Two Baton Rouge-area providers made Newsweek’s 2023 list of the top 175 cancer hospitals in the nation.