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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
LDH News
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LDH Blog: Q&A with the RMDs: Dr. Tina Stefanski
In this Q&A blog series, our regional public health leaders will be answering many of the same questions, and together they will paint a statewide perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic and their communities' response. Dr. Tina Stefanski is the regional medical director for Region 4, which includes the parishes of Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin and Vermilion.
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Office of Public Health's Dr. Tina Stefanski featured in LDH Blog Q&A series
"Changing behavior is hard. We have a very friendly, outgoing culture here in Acadiana. The idea of social distancing is very new for all of us, but it is such a critically important piece to slowing down transmission, flattening the curve and, ultimately, saving lives," Dr. Stefanski writes of Acadiana.
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Medicaid Open Enrollment begins October 15, 2020
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Department of Health attributes fourth death to Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children
MIS-C is a serious health condition in young people less than 21 years of age where different body organs can become inflamed and fail. These include the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes or gastrointestinal organs.
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August 2020 Legislative Oversight Committee Activity
The August 2020 Legislative Oversight Committee reports have been submitted to the respective legislative oversight committees in accordance with R.S. 49:968(D)(1)(b)(c)
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2019-2020 Kindergarten School Report - Interactive Map
The results of the 2019-2020 Kindergarten School Report are available online now. Users can access reported school-level data, for the first time ever, via the new interactive map.
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August 2020 Final Rules
The Louisiana Department of Health, Bureau of Health Services Financing has submitted Final Rules to the Office of the State Register for publication in the August 20, 2020 edition of the Louisiana Register in accordance with the provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act, R.S. 49:950 et seq.
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Reminder of the 2020-2021 school reporting requirements for Louisiana schools, click here for more information.
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Hospice Services - Pediatric Concurrent Care LAC 50:XV.3503 and 4315
Amends the provisions governing hospice services provided concurrently with life-prolonging treatments to individuals under age 21 in order to update existing terminology and reflect current practices, comply with federal requirements which allow for pediatric concurrent care, and promulgate these provisions clearly and accurately in the Louisiana Administrative Code.
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Behavioral Health Services - Substance Use Disorders Services LAC 50:XXXIII.14501
Amends the provisions governing substance use disorders services provider participation in order to align the responsibilities for providers of these services with provider requirements for behavioral health services and to repeal redundant or procedural language from the administrative Rule.
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FINAL RULE: Certification of Laboratories Performing Water Analysis
Under the authority of R.S. 36:254(B)(7) and in accordance with R.S. 49:950 et seq., the Administrative Procedure Act, the Department of Health, Office of Public Health (LDH-OPH), has amended Chapter 80 (Accreditation of Laboratories Performing Drinking Water Analyses) of Subpart 28 (Drinking Water Laboratories) of Part V (Preventive Health Services) of Title 48 (Public Health?General) of the Louisiana Administrative Code (LAC). The amendments are necessary to withdraw the LDH-OPH Laboratory Certification Program from The NELAC Institute (TNI), the National Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program (NELAP).