Healthcare

Woman’s Hospital has selected Spok Go, a cloud-native platform of Virginia-based Spok Inc., to assist with communication challenges and improve patient care at the hospital, Spok Inc. announced today.

In the six months since Pennington Biomedical Research Center launched its Obecity, USA campaign, the program’s ads and PSAs have reached millions nationally. 

An Amedisys-owned business has landed a partnership with Penn State Health and Highmark Health to operate Penn State Health Home Recovery Care, a venture launching in the first half of 2022. 

Its private employer vaccine mandate on hold, the Biden administration wants the multiple challenges to its workplace rule—including Louisiana Secretary of State Jeff Landry’s—consolidated in a single federal court and has asked for a decision by early next week.

Capital Area United Way is ramping up its workplace giving campaigns after Louisiana’s fourth surge of COVID-19 and Hurricane Ida caused delays. 

There’s no telling, but LSU Foundation officials acknowledge the long-term deal could be “very significant,” potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Ochsner Health has made a $4 million gift to LSU’s College of Human Sciences & Education, establishing the Ochsner Wellness Center inside the Huey P. Long Field House. 

With its six-story, red brick building standing prominently on the Essen Lane campus of Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center appears very much to be part of the hospital. 

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Many private employers beginning in January will have to ensure their workers either are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or that they will undergo weekly testing and wear a face covering, under a new federal rule announced by the White House this morning.