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Baton Rouge - In preparation for the upcoming statewide launch, LAHousingSearch.org is expanding each day with the addition of detailed listings of available rental properties. The site already lists detailed information on over 400 available rental units and is currently being utilized by 150 property providers to advertise their vacancies.
The results of a new door-to-door survey of people living in Orleans Parish show the current population to be 187,525 residents. The study, done with support from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Census Bureau, is the first of its kind since hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Jefferson Parish has 435,786 residents, Plaquemines Parish has 20,024 residents and St. Bernard Parish has 25,016 residents.
The Department of Health and Hospitals has been working with nursing homes in the most vulnerable areas of the state to ensure they will be ready to respond if another emergency like Hurricanes Katrina and Rita occurs.
The Department of Health and Hospitals’ Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health (Bureau) will host its third annual meeting and education event on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006 at the West Baton Rouge Conference Center at 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Officials with the Department of Health and Hospitals and with the Louisiana State Police announced today that the effort to find the remaining 136 people on the official missing list from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita will transition from the Louisiana Family Assistance Center to local law enforcement agencies.
Incoming college freshmen who cannot obtain the meningitis (either MENACTRA or MENOMUNE) vaccine from their doctors prior to the upcoming Fall 2006 semester will not be barred from starting college.
With a unique mission, Louisiana Family Assistance Center has critical historical data on the missing and deceased victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Now, LFAC’s technical section has compiled various levels of the data in order to give researchers and members of the public a series of maps of the entire region showing the missing, the found and the confirmed deceased by last known location as well as the locations of recovered remains. They have worked over the past month to verify and compile the location data to create the maps, which have just gone live on their website.
Beginning with the upcoming Fall 2006 semester, incoming freshmen must be vaccinated against meningitis to enroll at any Louisiana public or private college or university.
Baton Rouge – The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals headquarters building staff is moving from its present location on Capitol Access Road to the Bienville Building, 628 N. Fourth Street in downtown Baton Rouge.
MapInfo Corporation presented the Department of Health and Hospitals’ Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health with a 2006 Meridian Award for its use of location technology in improving health services.
With the 2006 hurricane upon us, the Department of Health and Hospitals has adopted new regulations that require nursing facilities to be better prepared for an emergency, including evacuations. The regulations are effective today, June 1, 2006.
The Department of Health and Hospitals awarded $21 million to seven hurricane-impacted areas to establish primary health care services, using funding from the federal Social Services Block Grant Primary and Preventive Health Care Services Funding Pool. A portion of the funds also will be used to develop a statewide pharmacy access program for uninsured and underinsured Louisiana residents.