Healthcare

Amedisys, a Baton Rouge-based home health care and hospice care company, is planning to open more home health care centers in North Carolina.

Ochsner Baton Rouge has appointed Charles “Chuck” Daigle as regional CEO for Baton Rouge and Lake Charles, the company announced today.

Stephanie Anderson, Woman’s Hospital’s executive vice president and chief administrative officer, announced today that she will retire later this year.

A week after simmering tensions between Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center erupted into a public battled that involved name-calling, severed alliances, hints of potential litigation and threats of disrupted patient care, the two former partners are working quietly behind the scenes to repair what is left of their relationship

The Louisiana Department of Health is evaluating proposals from six health care providers that submitted proposals in September to provide Medicaid services to nearly 1.7 million people in Louisiana.

Daily Report has obtained documents that shed light on the key differences that led up to the recent split between the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center.

Employee mental health is a big issue facing businesses, especially amid the pandemic. So how should employers approach it?

LSU will lift its COVID-19 entrance protocols for football games in Tiger Stadium, beginning with the Oct. 16 game against Florida.

After two high-profile business leaders this week publicly blasted Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center as “greedy” and “morally bankrupt” amid the hospital’s ongoing feud with the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, officials at OLOL and its parent organization, the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, have been holed up in meetings trying to determine next steps, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.

Whether its nursing homes, the power grid, industry or picking up the garbage the question is the same: Why won't those responsible for regulating these services do their job?