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DHH to Hold Inaugural Medical Directors' Summit Feb. 16
DHH will hold the first Medical Directors' Summit Wednesday, Feb. 16, at Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
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Secretary Greenstein Highlights World Cancer Day
Today, Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce D. Greenstein joined leaders across the world in highlighting World Cancer Day, an effort by the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise awareness about cancer prevalence and emphasize the importance of preventive measures that can reduce the risk of cancer death.
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OIG Launches Most Wanted Health Care Fugitives List
Washington, DC – The Office of Inspector General (OIG) of the Department of Health & Human Services today launched its Most Wanted Fugitives List—the first-ever list of individuals sought by authorities on charges of health care fraud and abuse—to focus public attention on its most-wanted fugitives.
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Coordinated Care Network Notice of Intent DRAFT updated 2.2.2011
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DHH Urges Drinking Water Safety in Light of Winter Weather
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Making Medicaid Better Newsletter 2.1.2011
Making Medicaid Better Newsletter 2.1.2011
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IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Shreveport Times: “State ban on 'bath salts' abused as a drug came none too soon”
In December Times reporter Melody Brumble first reported this health threat that was creating a flood of phone calls to the Louisiana Poison Control Center at LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport. Two weeks later Gov. Bobby Jindal issued an emergency executive order that added six chemicals marketed as bath salts and plant food to the controlled drug law. Now, two weeks later, the Poison Control Center has reported a nose dive of emergency calls.
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State Health Department to Provide Meningitis Vaccines to Dillard Students
New Orleans – Students of Dillard University seeking a meningitis vaccine can get one at no cost tomorrow, Jan. 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Lawless Chapel on the university campus.
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Louisiana’s Breastfeeding Rates are on the Rise
More of Louisiana’s low-income, at-risk new mothers participating in the state’s Nurse-Family Partnership Program (NFP) are choosing to breastfeed their babies.
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DHH Recognizes Health Care Providers for Working Toward Electronic Health Records, Encourages Others to be Part of State’s Health Care Future
Today, Louisiana Department of Health Hospitals Incoming Deputy Secretary Kathy Kliebert was joined by leaders from Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport and CHRISTUS Health Louisiana to support the Louisiana Medicaid Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Program and recognize Winn Community Health Center, the first federally qualified health center (FQHC) in the nation to receive an incentive payment.
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RFP for Residential Facility Staffing for Mental Health Clients
The purpose of this RFP is to solicit proposals from qualified proposers to provide supervisory and direct care personnel for the 24 hour per day, 365 days per year operation of two transitional houses. Southeast Louisiana Hospital will contract with one provider to provide those services.