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Registration is now open for the Lighten Up Louisiana statewide competition for 2007. The overwhelmingly successful program encourages Louisiana citizens to get healthy by focusing on making better food choices and increasing physical activity. This time around, both the adult and kids’ versions will run at the same time. In addition, individuals as well as teams can now join the competition.
Baton Rouge --- Registration is now open for the Lighten Up Louisiana statewide competition for 2007. The overwhelmingly successful program encourages Louisiana citizens to get healthy by focusing on making better food choices and increasing physical activity. This time around, both the adult and kids’ versions will run at the same time. In addition, individuals as well as teams can now join the competition.
Baton Rouge – Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and the Department of Health and Hospitals today announced the latest round of payments that are set to go out to hospitals that cared for uninsured patients last year.
Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and the Department of Health and Hospitals today announced the latest round of payments that are set to go out to hospitals that cared for uninsured patients last year.
The Department of Health and Hospitals’ Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health will host a conference to address strategies to better deal with chronic health conditions.
Baton Rouge --- The Department of Health and Hospitals’ Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health will host a conference to address strategies to better deal with chronic health conditions.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Office of Public Health has scheduled a regional training exercise to help the parishes in its Region III area of the state prepare to respond for a future influenza outbreak. These parishes include Assumption, Lafourche, St. Charles, St. James, St. John, St. Mary, and Terrebonne.
Thibodaux – The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Office of Public Health has scheduled a regional training exercise to help the parishes in its Region III area of the state prepare to respond for a future influenza outbreak. These parishes include Assumption, Lafourche, St. Charles, St. James, St. John, St. Mary, and Terrebonne.
For a two-week period beginning March 1, 2007, Louisiana oyster harvesters can be permitted to move live oysters from the public oyster seed grounds located southwest of Point Au Fer and the South Point area.
Baton Rouge --- For a two-week period beginning March 1, 2007, Louisiana oyster harvesters can be permitted to move live oysters from the public oyster seed grounds located southwest of Point Au Fer and the South Point area.
The Cameron Parish Health Unit will be offering the second round of immunizations for adult hepatitis A and hepatitis B.