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LDH News
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Southwestern Louisiana Office of Public Health resumes mobile COVID-19 testing to aid in Hurricane Delta recovery
Residents are encouraged to take care of their health during this time of recovery. COVID-19 continues to be active in Louisiana as flu season is beginning, and now is not the time to let down your guard.
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Gov. Edwards, LDH and DCFS Secretaries Get Flu Shots at OLOL Encouraging Louisianans to Join Them
Gov. John Bel Edwards, Louisiana Department of Health Secretary Dr. Courtney Phillips and Department of Children and Family Services Secretary Marketa Walters got their annual flu shots on Wednesday at Our Lady of the Lake’s North Baton Rouge Clinic.
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Louisiana Department of Health verifies two Hurricane Delta-related deaths
Louisiana Department of Health on Sunday verifies two deaths tied to Hurricane Delta.
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Rural Health Clinics LAC 50:XI.Subpart 15.16301,16303,16503, and 16701
Amends the provisions governing rural health clinics to ensure the language reflects current practices and is promulgated clearly and accurately in the Louisiana Administrative Code and to remove procedural language from the administrative Rule.
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Professional Services Program - Immunizations LAC 50:IX.Chapter 83 and Chapter 85
Amends the provisions governing immunizations in the Professional Services Program in order to ensure that the language in the administrative Rule reflects current practices and is promulgated clearly and accurately in the Louisiana Administrative Code.
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Professional Services Program LAC 50:IX.Chapter 3 – Chapter 9
Amends the provisions governing the Professional Services Program in order to remove specific clinical information and procedural language from the administrative Rule to reflect current practices and ensure that the provisions are promulgated clearly and accurately in the Louisiana Administrative Code.
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Home and Community-Based Services Providers-Licensing Standards LAC 48:I.5038
Continues the provisions of the September 21, 2020 Emergency Rule which adopted provisions to allow licensed home and community-based services providers to operate and provide services outside of their licensed geographic areas to existing clients who have evacuated or temporarily relocated to another location in the state due to a gubernatorial declared state of emergency or disaster in Louisiana.
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Federally Qualified Health Centers LAC 50:XI.10301, 10303, 10503 and 10701
Amends the provisions governing federally qualified health centers to ensure the language reflects current practices and promulgate these provisions clearly and accurately in the Louisiana Administrative Code, and to remove procedural language from the administrative Rule.
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Louisiana Department of Health urges safe use of generators following Hurricane Delta
Using a generator safely is a matter of life and death following a storm that causes widespread power outages. In the first week after Hurricane Laura struck southwest Louisiana, almost half of the storm-related deaths (9 out of 20) were due to carbon monoxide poison produced by a gasoline-powered portable generator.
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NOTICE OF INTENT: Covid-19 Disease Reporting Requirements
Under the authority of R.S. 40: 4 and 40:5, and in accordance with R.S. 49:950 et seq., the Administrative Procedure Act, notice is hereby given that the state health officer, acting through the Louisiana Department of Health, Office of Public Health (LDH-OPH), intends to amend §§105 and 107 of Part II (The Control of Diseases) of Title 51 (Public Health-Sanitary Code) of the Louisiana Administrative Code. This rule is being proposed to include COVID-19 in the list of diseases and conditions hereby declared reportable as a Class A disease or condition.
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Programs and Services Amendments due to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency
Continues the provisions of the Emergency Rule adopted on June 24, 2020 which amended the provisions of Title 50 of the Louisiana Administrative Code in order to adopt temporary measures to provide for the continuation of essential programs and services to ensure the health and welfare of the citizens of Louisiana.