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The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals encourages Louisiana residents to exercise caution in swimming in natural bodies of water this summer, as one resident has died and three others have become ill from infections contracted after swimming in seawater along the Louisiana Gulf Coast.
As part of Men's Health Week, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) Office of Public Health (OPH) challenges all fathers and men to embrace a healthy lifestyle that includes exercise, a healthy diet filled with fruits and vegetables and, most importantly, routine health screenings and early treatment for disease.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals celebrates National Women's Health Week, May 12-18. National Women's Health Week empowers women to make their health a top priority. It also encourages women to take steps to improve their physical and mental health and lower risks of certain diseases.
Surgeons at Our Lady of the Lake's renovated Perkins Surgery Center on Tuesday performed the first surgery on a patient who would ordinarily have been treated at Earl K. Long Medical Center before its closure.
Partnerships between the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals, nonprofit advocacy groups and Louisiana hospitals reduced the number of days babies born in Louisiana have spent in Neonatal Intensive Care units by 20,000, according to preliminary data from DHH’s Birth Outcomes Initiative.
This week, the focus of national health care will be on Louisiana as hundreds of software developers and coders from all over the world will converge on Lafayette to compete in CajunCodeFest 2.0 and build innovative applications that encourage and enable people to own their own health by making more informed health care decisions.
Department of Health and Hospitals Interim Secretary Kathy Kliebert today marked the successful transition of regional safety net health care services from Louisiana State University to Our Lady of the Lake hospital as operations phased down at the Earl K. Long hospital, which officially closed its doors today.
On Monday, April 15, the LSU Women's OB/GYN Clinic will reopen for scheduled appointments under the operation of Woman's Hospital. The re-opening comes as a result of a public-private partnership agreement reached between DHH, LSU and Woman's Hospital on Wednesday, April 10. LSU has operated the clinic in the Physician Office Building on the new Woman's campus since September 2012; and this location will not change. The agreement will support graduate medical education for LSU residency programs and improve patient access to quality health care services.
As part of National Public Health Week, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals is recognizing its Office of Public Health (OPH) and its more than 1,300 employees who strive to promote and protect public health each day. National Public Health Week is April 1- 7, and was initiated by the American Public Health Association in 1995 to recognize the contributions of public health and highlight issues that are important to improving the nation’s health.
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The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals today formally notified the Louisiana Legislative Auditor's Office and the Office of the District Attorney for East Baton Rouge Parish that staff have gathered evidence that leads them to believe a DHH employee has misappropriated public funds intended for the department and used these funds for personal activities.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) announced today he has selected Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein to be a member of the recently created National Commission on Long-Term Care. Greenstein is the only representative thus far from Louisiana appointed to the bipartisan, 15-member commission, which is tasked with studying how to effectively reform long-term care supports and services and submitting recommendations to Congress.