Healthcare

Many large companies say they won’t mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for workers  

Some of America’s largest businesses say they will encourage—but not mandate—employees to get COVID-19...

Edwards faces hard choices when it comes to vaccination priority 

Even before the first week of coronavirus vaccines ended in Louisiana, Gov. John Bel...

Individual policyholders see significant health insurance rate increases

Health insurance premiums for individual policyholders in Louisiana will rise between 7% and 9% on average in 2021, according to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana’s health care economist Michael Bertaut.

Virus roundup … 

• The state reported 3,851 new COVID-19  cases and 31 additional deaths today. • Lt....

Virus roundup … 

• Gov. John Bel Edwards will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. today...

Baton Rouge employers weighing whether to mandate vaccinations

Now that the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines have arrived in Louisiana and are...

Damage to patients from Baton Rouge Clinic cyberattack appears minimal

Nearly five months after hackers waged an aggressive attack on the Baton Rouge Clinic, disabling some clinic systems for weeks, administrators say business is back to normal and that newer, stronger systems have been put in place.

Meet the women who keep Baton Rouge hospitals running

Over at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, the 222-person environmental services team also cleans and sanitizes the facility 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Louisiana administers its first COVID-19 vaccines

Louisiana administered its first coronavirus vaccines this morning to health care workers at Ochsner...

Virus roundup …  

• As the country approaches the once-unthinkable threshold of 300,000 COVID-19 deaths this week,...