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Proactive business decisions are improving cancer treatment and early detection
Two of the region’s leading cancer organizations—Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center and Ochsner Cancer Center—are pushing deeper into underserved communities, deploying new technology and...
Nest Health is reframing health care in Louisiana and beyond
Dr. Katie Brown has a patient who used to visit the emergency room every other day.
As a parent of children with chronic health issues...
How the ‘silver tsunami’ is testing the limits of local providers
Internal medicine physician Kenny Cole remembers struggling to meet the needs of older patients in appointment time slots designed for simpler, straightforward cases.
“An 18-year-old...
Five executives sound off on what’s working, what’s not and what’s next for Louisiana...
Louisiana’s health care system is at a pivotal moment—strained by workforce shortages, Medicaid vulnerability and widening access gaps, yet energized by breakthroughs in precision...
A decade in, the Baton Rouge Health District plans its next 10 years
For the past decade, Baton Rouge’s largest health systems, hospitals and research institutions have been engaged in an exercise that may seem counterintuitive on...
AI’s impact on health care is accelerating as public acceptance grows.
In just the last three years, the transformational potential of AI has leapt from theory to practice in the health care space. Today, it...
Health and health care in the capital region by the numbers
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Number of Capital Region hospitals named to Newsweek’s “World’s Best Hospitals” ranking. While no Louisiana hospitals cracked the top 250 worldwide, nine made the...
Health care professionals to watch in 2026
Louisiana's health care landscape is being shaped not just by systems and policy, but by the individuals driving change from within. From the operating...
Devices, discoveries and treatments making waves in Capital Region medicine
Innovation in the Capital Region's health care community rarely announces itself. It shows up in a new piece of equipment, a research enrollment milestone...
