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LDH News
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LDH Blog: LDH Staff Spotlight: Masking all y'all
Kelly Smith spends her days working as a transition coordinator with the Office of Behavioral Health. In her off hours, she is a maestro of masks. Since March, she has sewn and donated nearly 4,700 handmade cloth masks to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Acadiana Office of Public Health offers COVID-19 mobile testing and necessary vaccines to Hurricane Laura evacuees
Mobile testing for COVID-19 and vaccines for tetanus, hepatitis A and hepatitis B will be available to Hurricane Laura evacuees in Lafayette from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, September 11 at the Lafayette Parish Health Unit, 220 Willow St. in Lafayette.
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Southwestern Louisiana Office of Public Health COVID-19 mobile testing and necessary vaccines to aid in Hurricane Laura recovery
Mobile testing for COVID-19 and vaccines for tetanus, hepatitis A and hepatitis B will be available from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on select days this week at five southwestern Louisiana sites.
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LDH Blog: Sheltering in a time of COVID: Non-congregate sheltering
High rates of community spread and restrictions on group sizes led the State to develop a unique emphasis on non-congregate (no group) sheltering.
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Emergency Order: School Reporting and Data Sharing Covid-19
EMERGENCY ORDER: Reporting and Data Sharing of known and suspected positive COVID-19 cases occurring in all public, private, and charter PK-12 schools.
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COVID-19 testing resumes in Jefferson, Orleans and East Baton Rouge
This week, COVID-19 testing will be available at the following locations, dates and times in the greater New Orleans and Baton Rouge regions. Also, a location will be available at the Lake Charles Civic Center.
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LDH updates methodology for assigning locations to COVID cases, tests
As of today, LDH has updated the methodology used to assign cases and tests to the best known locations. This new methodology allows us to account for patients who have been tested more than once and may have moved at some point during this public health emergency.
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Programs and Services Amendments Due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency -- Home and Community-Based Services Waivers and Long-Term Personal Care Services
Amends the provisions governing the Adult Day Health Care Waiver, the Community Choices Waiver, and Long-Term Personal Care Services throughout the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) public health emergency declaration, and clarifies that the Home and Community-Based Services waiver provisions which correspond to Louisiana's section 1915(c) Appendix K waiver will remain in effect for the duration of the Emergency Rules published in the April 20, 2020 edition of the Louisiana Register or until the Appendix K waiver termination date of January 26, 2021, whichever is later.
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Southwest Louisiana mobile testing site closed Monday to Wednesday ahead of anticipated tropical weather
The test site is moving next week to a new location in Lake Charles, in the 700 block of Dora Street. From East Prien Lake Road, take Kirkman Street North, then turn left at Dora Street and follow the signage for where to enter and exit the test site.
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Office of Public Health's Dr. Joe Kanter featured in LDH Blog Q&A series
"Early on, our elected leaders made difficult decisions to cancel public events, order aggressive but necessary social distancing measures, and issue calls for the public to stay at home to limit the virus’s spread. Most notably, the people of the greater New Orleans area heeded those calls. ... By embracing these recommendations, we were able to flatten the curve and keep hospitals from becoming overwhelmed," Dr. Kanter writes of the greater New Orleans region.
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Mobile COVID-19 testing in southwest Louisiana moves to new location
Next week, COVID-19 mobile testing for Region 5 is moving to a new location in Lake Charles. Community testing is available Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to noon.
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Mobile COVID-19 testing open all next week at Lake Charles Civic Center
Throughout next week, mobile testing for Region 5 will continue at the Lake Charles Civic Center from 8 a.m. until noon from Monday, August 17 to Friday, August 21