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Long lines, informational booths, goodie bags and giveaways. This describes the traditional community health fair where neighbors gather at a central location to get health care tips and information. But, when the Department of Health and Hospitals’ mobile health fair takes to the streets of Baton Rouge, people won’t even have to leave their homes.
The Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of Public Health has reopened Fontainebleau State Park Beach for swimming and water recreation. The decision was made after water samples taken in the past week showed the area’s water quality has improved to within Louisiana’s BEACH program bacteriological water quality standards.
The nation’s most comprehensive study of the health and nutritional status of Americans is being conducted in Jefferson Parish through December 18, 2004. In Jefferson Parish, researchers with the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) are working out of mobile examination centers to gather health-related data from a select group of citizens.
The Department of Health and Hospitals today reported 14 new cases of West Nile virus, raising the 2004 case count to 89 human infections.
The Department of Health and Hospitals will REOPEN the remaining oyster harvest areas that were closed Sunday, Oct. 10, 2004. DHH closed, as a precautionary measure, state waters from the Atchafalaya River to the Louisiana-Mississippi state line in the wake of flooding caused by rainfall from Tropical Storm Matthew. After more than a week of bacterial testing, the remaining areas outlined below will reopen one-half hour prior to official sunrise, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2004.
An Advisory has been issued for this beach. This should be considered notification of a potential health risk to the bathing public and swimming is not advised. This advisory will remain in effect until bacteria levels are in compliance with water quality criteria.
As children across the state spend the following weeks preparing costumes, gobbling goodies and deciding whether to play tricks or get treats, state health officials remind them to incorporate safety into their Halloween activities.
The Department of Health and Hospitals has REOPENED some of the oyster harvest areas that were closed last Sunday, Oct. 10. Oyster harvesting can resume in the areas outlined below beginning at official sunrise, Friday, Oct. 15, 2004. The beds were closed as a precautionary measure after the heavy rainfall produced by Tropical Storm Matthew.
Officials with the Department of Health and Hospitals today announced they are coordinating a statewide survey to determine how much flu vaccine is available in Louisiana.
A group of Baton Rouge-area health care providers has received a federal Healthy Communities Access Program (HCAP) grant to expand primary care treatment for the uninsured through an improved computer tracking system.
In the aftermath of Tropical Storm Matthew, many residents and disaster relief workers from Terrebonne and Lafourche Parishes and the surrounding area have been working in conditions that could put them at risk for potentially dangerous wound infections.