Healthcare

Amedisys acquiring Nashville-based Contessa Health

Amedisys Inc., a Baton Rouge-based provider of home and hospice care, has entered into...

Medical school graduates educated during pandemic begin residencies at OLOL

Today marks the start of the new academic year for graduate medical education at...

COVID-19 fatigue causing many nurses to change career path

Nurses are leaving Woman’s Hospital at a high rate as a result of the...

Local businesses navigate whether to ask non-vaccinated customers to mask up

Absent a statewide mask mandate and with looser federal restrictions, some local businesses are asking customers to follow an honor code, while others are allowing them to shed the masks entirely.

Envoc adding and updating COVID-19 features on LA Wallet

Envoc, the Baton Rouge software company that gave you LA Wallet, has updated its recently developed SMART Health Card, which allows users to show their COVID vaccination status through the LA Wallet app, and plans to add more COVID features.

LSU board approves president’s contract, COVID vaccination guidelines

The LSU Board of Supervisors met today in Alexandria and approved new COVID vaccination...

Oceans Behavioral Hospital opens north Baton Rouge campus today

Oceans Healthcare today announced the opening of a new behavioral health hospital in north...

Louisiana giving away $2.3M in prizes to encourage vaccines

Louisiana will offer residents who have gotten vaccinated against COVID-19 a chance to win...

Ochsner Health acquiring Mississippi-based Rush Health Systems

Ochsner Health has entered into an agreement to acquire Meridian, Mississippi-based Rush Health Systems,...

Supreme Court dismisses challenge to Affordable Care Act

The Supreme Court has dismissed a challenge to the Obama-era health care law, preserving...