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On Wednesday, July 6, 2005, community leaders will join together to discuss primary and preventive health care in Winn Parish. The meeting will be held at noon at the Louisiana Political Museum, located at 499 East Main St. in Winnfield, La.
From a proposal to limit junk food in school vending machines to a plan to use local health care funds to improve primary care to restructuring long term care and reducing the cost of prescription drugs, every bill in Gov. Blanco’s Health Care Reform package received legislative approval.
The Department of Health and Human Services this week announced Louisiana will receive $3.35 million to create six new federally qualified health center sites. The sites will be located in St. Joseph, Clinton, Ferriday, Livonia and Monroe and will serve an estimated 15,000 patients annually.
Increasing the number of children receiving health insurance, incorporating practices to improve medication prescribing and implementing the first Medicaid disease management program for asthma are just some of the successes that have occurred during the first year of health care reform efforts.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals – Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health held a news conference in Alexandria today to announce the receipt of a three-year grant in the amount of $750,000 from The Rapides Foundation. The funded project, called Health Systems Development for Central Louisiana, aims to increase primary health care services, the number of primary care health professionals, the number of patients served and efficiencies within existing primary care service systems.
The Department of Health and Hospitals – Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health will host a press conference Friday, March 18, 2005, to introduce Health Systems Development for Central Louisiana, a new program funded by a $750,000 grant award from The Rapides Foundation.
Looking back over the past year to review health care initiatives underway and discuss ongoing reform efforts will be the main topic at the fourth meeting of the Governor’s Health Care Reform Panel.
The Department of Health and Hospitals announced today it will close the New Orleans Home nursing home by the fall of 2005. The announcement follows recommendations made to the agency as it developed its draft Long Term Care Report that was presented to Gov. Blanco’s Health Care Reform Panel last year.
Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Dr. Fred Cerise, along with officials from the federal Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), will attend the grand opening of a new Louisiana community health center in the city of Zachary.
Dr. Fred Cerise, secretary of the Department of Health and Hospitals said today the federal budget released earlier this week by the Bush Administration may result in further reductions in federal funds to Louisiana.
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.
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.