Healthcare

Florida-based company Healthcare for Kids is opening a day care on Airline Highway for medically fragile children.

Most Louisiana residents say the state is headed in the wrong direction, and the pessimism is highest in the Capital Region, according to an LSU survey. 

Many Americans who are looking to use medications like Ozempic to lose weight are hitting a barrier: Their employers’ health plans won’t pay for them. 

The pandemic forced hospitals to embrace new solutions to a long-standing nursing shortage.

A Metairie-based investor bought a medical office on Bluebonnet Boulevard last week in a...

State government made 1,156 loan agreements for an affordable housing program totaling more than $107.1 million with recipients who are not in compliance with program rules, the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s office reports. 

After more than three years and 1.1 million deaths, the United States on Thursday ended the public health emergency for COVID-19—and Congress is attempting to better prepare for a possible resurgence of that virus or another.

Food and beverage workers in Louisiana will have access to free mental health counseling under a partnership between LSU and Southern Smoke Foundation, a nonprofit that works with hospitality industry workers nationwide.

Ochsner Health is planning to lay off nearly 800 employees across Louisiana and Mississippi, WAFB-TV reports. 

With the health care industry facing a worsening shortage of trained workers, Propel America and The College of Health Care Professions are partnering to launch a tuition-free pilot program in Baton Rouge to train workers for in-demand medical field jobs.