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Lafayette -- On Wednesday, March 12, the Department of Health and Hospitals’ Office of Public Health Acadian Region will offer the news media a chance to experience a simulated bioterrorism event and the response of several public agencies.
Baton Rouge --- People with physical, mental or developmental disabilities sometimes avoid seeking employment because they fear losing their Medicaid coverage. However, a new initiative within the Department of Health and Hospitals will help citizens with severe disabilities work and keep or get Medicaid health care benefits.
Baton Rouge — The American Academy of Pediatrics has swallowed its longtime stance on ipecac syrup, now recommending that parents avoid having the drug in their homes.
Baton Rouge --- After more than 15 years of funding requests, the Department of Health and Hospitals has obtained the money to begin construction of a new DHH Office of Public Health laboratory. DHH received $2.8 million in the Capital Outlay Bill to begin construction of a new facility in April 2004.
Baton Rouge --- Children born with physical or mental conditions that eventually could lead to a developmental disability need a little extra support during their formative years. Fortunately, the Department of Health and Hospitals’ Early Steps Program is there to offer assistance to these children and their families.
NEW ORLEANS -- Seven weeks after the launch of a statewide secondhand smoke education and awareness campaign, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals’ Tobacco Control Program is taking its message to Louisiana’s newspaper readers through a print advertising campaign and renewing its commitment to listen to Louisiana residents about secondhand smoke issues.
Baton Rouge—A report issued today by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals shows a eight-year trend of Medicaid spending at or below the U.S. growth rate. Cost controls in the program have saved Louisiana taxpayers more than $6 billion since 1996, while Medicaid has nearly doubled the number of children covered and improved both access to health care and quality of services.
Baton Rouge—A report issued today by the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals shows a nine-year trend of Medicaid spending at or below the U.S. growth rate. Cost controls in the program have saved Louisiana taxpayers more than $6 billion since 1996, while Medicaid has nearly doubled the number of children covered and improved both access to health care and quality of services.
Baton Rouge – The Department of Health and Hospitals has published a Family Readiness Guide to assist citizens with making proper decisions in the event of a natural or man-made emergency or a bioterrorism threat. The guide is being first distributed in the New Orleans metropolitan area as an insert in Saturday’s Times-Picayune. About 200,000 copies will be distributed Saturday, and additional printings will result in a total of 3 million guides that will be distributed as newspaper inserts throughout the remainder of the state in early 2004.
Baton Rouge – With the opening of a Vital Records Registry branch in Hammond, citizens in the Florida Parishes now will have an easier time getting birth and death certificates.
Baton Rouge – With the opening of a Vital Records Registry branch in Thibodaux, citizens in the Houma-Thibodaux area now will have an easier time getting birth and death certificates.
New Orleans -- The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent report on sexually transmitted diseases shows Louisiana with 11,396 reported cases of gonorrhea and 18,451 reported cases of chlamydia during 2002. This ranks the state first and fourth, respectively, for the rates of these two sexually transmitted diseases. In addition, Louisiana’s syphilis rate ranked eighth among states.