Healthcare

One day after the chairman of the Our Lady of the Lake Foundation resigned from the hospital fundraising board amid the escalating feud between OLOL and the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, blasting hospital leadership as “morally bankrupt,” prominent businessman and OLOL donor Richard Lipsey is also taking aim at the institution.

Tom Adamek, who has been simultaneously serving as board chair of the Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and also Our Lady of the Lake Foundation, resigned from the foundation board today, as tensions between OLOL and MBPCC erupted into a free-for-all.

Premier Health Consultants CEO Steve Sellars on Tuesday announced that the company will expand its Baton Rouge headquarters, making a $1.5 million capital investment in its facilities to support the more than 85 urgent care clinics it operates. 

Monday’s announcement by Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center that it is developing a new $100 million cancer institute raises a lot of questions about the future of the cancer care market in Baton Rouge.

Planning for the new Our Lady of the Lake cancer institute has been in the works, at least in broad terms, for months.

Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center is investing $100 million to establish a new regional cancer center that will be branded as the Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Institute.

IMAC Holdings INC has expanded its services into Louisiana with the acquisition of Louisiana Orthopaedic and Sports Rehab Institute in Baton Rouge, the company announced Monday.

The four hospitals that deliver babies in Baton Rouge were among 16 statewide to attain a new designation from the Louisiana Department of Health that recognizes facilities committed to improving quality and outcomes for those giving birth.

 A decline in COVID-19 cases across the U.S. over the past several weeks has given overwhelmed hospitals some relief, but administrators are bracing for yet another possible surge as cold weather drives people indoors.

Gov. John Bel Edwards announced today he's reupping Louisiana's indoor mask mandate for another...