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The statistics are sobering. According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in five children nationwide between the ages of six to 17 are overweight. This is double the number reported just 30 years ago. To help combat this problem, the La. Department of Health and Hospitals will be starting a four-month program aimed at getting kids off the couch and burning calories.
State health officials today released a final West Nile virus case count for 2004. There were 114 human cases and seven deaths in 2004.
Obesity has emerged as a top health threat for the United States and for Louisiana. The Louisiana Council on Obesity Prevention and Management, along with the Department of Health and Hospitals and other education and health professional organizations, has created a supplement to the Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society. The supplement will be available to all members in early January. It will provide continuing education credits for Louisiana Medical Society members and appeal to all health care providers as front-line fighters in the state’s battle against obesity.
Under an oyster relaying program, Louisiana oyster harvesters can now be permitted to move oysters from the public oyster seed grounds located southwest of Point Au Fer, Atchafalaya Bay and transplant them to their private leases for later harvest. This program is part of an initiative by both the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
The Louisiana Rural Health Information Technology Partnership received $1.1 million grant from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Health Care Research and Quality. The grant award will be used to increase technology for critical access hospitals and providers.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Medicaid Program, in conjunction with Louisiana Covering Kids & Families, has begun a targeted two-year outreach project designed to reduce the number of uninsured children in the central Louisiana area.
Getting a birth certificate or death record is now easier than ever thanks to a new online service recently started by the Department of Health and Hospitals’ Vital Records Registry.
Louisiana is one of only six states to achieve the highest preparedness status from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in demonstrating that health care workers are prepared to distribute vaccines and antidotes in the event of an emergency.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals announced today it has filed a request with the federal Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services to participate in a multi-state Medicaid drug purchasing pool.
Providing care to the uninsured in Louisiana will be the main topic of discussion at the third quarterly meeting of the Governor’s Health Care Reform Panel. The meeting will take place on Thursday, Dec. 16 at the New Orleans Marriott Hotel, 555 Canal St., New Orleans.
Under an oyster relocation program, Louisiana oyster harvesters can now be permitted to move oysters from the public oyster seed grounds located southwest of Point Au Fer, Atchafalaya Bay and transplant them to their private leases for later harvest. This program is part of an initiative by both the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals and the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
The local group working to reform health care in the Acadiana area will hold its second meeting Wednesday, December 8. Warren Hebert, chairman of the Region 4 Health Care Consortium, said the focus of the meeting is to divide the group into several working subcommittees and to conduct strategic planning.