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In recognition of National Influenza Vaccination Week, immunization staff with the Department of Health and Hospitals remind people that it is not too late to get a flu shot. In fact, as flu season usually starts at this time of the year and doesn’t peak until January, this is the perfect time to get vaccinated.
Baton Rouge – The overall health of Louisiana improved over the last year, inching Louisiana up one spot in America’s Health Rankings 2007 from 50 to 49. In fact, the United Health Foundation identifies Louisiana as successfully making strides in one area of health care where the rest of the nation is lagging behind.
West Nile virus infections have now been identified in 38 people in Louisiana, according to the most recent report issued by the Department of Health and Hospitals. Of the 38 total cases, 30 people have shown symptoms related to the virus and eight people were never ill. Of the 30 symptomatic cases, 21 of them are the more serious, neuroinvasive disease and nine are West Nile fever.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals’ Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health will host its fourth annual meeting and education event. The meeting will focus on the components of the patient-centered medical home system, a comprehensive and quality-driven model for primary health care delivery.
Beginning Dec. 1, Louisiana oyster harvesters will have a two-week opportunity to move oysters from the public oyster seed grounds located southwest of Point Au Fer and the South Point area, and transplant them to their private leases for later harvest.
Beginning Dec. 1, Louisiana oyster harvesters will have a two-week opportunity to move oysters from the public oyster seed grounds located southwest of Point Au Fer and the South Point area, and transplant them to their private leases for later harvest.
Beginning Dec. 1, Louisiana oyster harvesters will have a two-week opportunity to move oysters from the public oyster seed grounds located southwest of Point Au Fer and the South Point area, and transplant them to their private leases for later harvest.
Enrolling in the Louisiana Medicaid program has become faster and more efficient thanks to an online application process now available through the Department of Health and Hospitals Web site.
This is the final week for water sampling and advisory activities for the 2007 beach season. Any beach location under an advisory this week will remain so during the off-season.
Free flu vaccines were given to 5,057 residents throughout Louisiana during the first hour of the state’s mass vaccination effort. The free vaccines continue until 7:30 p.m. this evening at nine locations.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals – Office of Public Health, and its volunteers vaccinated nearly 26,000 people within just a few hours, demonstrating the state’s ability to respond to a possible health emergency. Unofficial totals put the number of vaccinations at 25,955 statewide. Long, but fast moving, lines formed quickly at the nine regional flu vaccination clinics called Point of Dispensing sites, or PODS. The state’s Office of Public Health had hoped to vaccinate as many as 200 people per hour, but instead handled more than 550 an hour during peak times. People from 10 states and two countries showed up for the free flu shots.