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A new study by the Department of Health and Hospitals shows there is little evidence to support recent reports of increased death and suicide rates after Hurricane Katrina. Instead, the study shows there may now be slight increases in suicides, fewer homicides than expected and slightly higher death rates in hospitals and nursing homes than before last year’s storm.
Ten days after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, the State of Louisiana established the Find Family National Call Center, which would later become the Louisiana Family Assistance Center.
For the next two days, nurses from around the area will practice fundamentals to care for Louisiana’s chronically ill residents in a disaster situation.
In an effort to resume services in Hurricane Katrina-impacted areas, the Department of Health and Hospitals is reopening a Medicaid office in Metairie on Monday, Sept. 11.
The Department of Health and Hospitals today confirms 27 new human cases of West Nile virus, giving Louisiana a total of 102 cases thus far in 2006.
The Department of Health and Hospitals has been working with nursing homes in the most vulnerable areas of the state to ensure they will be ready to respond if another emergency like Hurricanes Katrina and Rita occurs.
Tomorrow, nurses from around the area will practice fundamentals to care for Louisiana’s chronically ill residents in a disaster situation.
Louisiana oyster harvesters now can be permitted to move oysters from the public seed grounds located southwest of Point Au Fer and the South Point area and transplant them to private leases for later harvest.
The United States Census Bureau released updated data for 2005 last week showing the percentage of uninsured children in Louisiana is below the national average.
The Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health has hired Dr. Parham Jaberi as the medical director for DHH-OPH Region 9.
The Department of Health and Hospitals’ Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health (Bureau) will host its third annual meeting and education event on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2006 at the West Baton Rouge Conference Center at 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The Department of Health and Hospitals today confirms 19 new human cases of West Nile virus, giving Louisiana a total of 48 cases thus far in 2006.