Healthcare

LSU has issued a request for information from large health care organizations interested in pursuing a long-term partnership with the university that would be centered on LSU sports medicine and LSU athletics sponsorship opportunities, but also include other areas of health and wellness across the system.

Dr. David Carmouche is leaving his executive post at Ochsner after six years of helping grow the health system’s risk- and value-based care delivery models, to lead Walmart’s national expansion into retail health care.

The ending of the Mary Bird Perkins partnership with Our Lady of the Lake is something few saw coming, or thought would ever happen, but now that it has the Baton Rouge health care market will never be the same.

Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center has finalized its affiliation agreement with the Nashville-based network of independent oncology practices, OneOncology, clearing the way for the new partnership to take effect Jan. 1 and officially ending MBPCC’s nearly decadelong affiliation with Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center.

Patriot Services Group, a nonprofit that creates affordable housing for veterans, recently purchased Kingston Point Apartments on Boulevard De Province for $7.3 million in a deal that closed Friday.

The coming federal rule that will require private companies in the U.S. to mandate vaccinations or regular testing among their workers has been finalized by the White House, in advance of its likely public release this week, The Washington Post reports. 

One of the major side effects of COVID-19, long COVID, can leave a person sick long after they recover from the virus itself. 

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and LSU Health New Orleans’ Baton Rouge campus will partner to provide “an immersive experience” for pre-medical students at LSU, officials say.

Bayou Braces and Dentistry is opening a second Baton Rouge location, this one in the former YMCA space at 8482 Perkins Road, which the company paid $1.2 million for on Thursday.

OLOL has since announced it will move forward with its own $100 million cancer institute which, in many services, would be a direct competitor of MBPCC.