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15 top health system workplaces, per USA Today

Becker's Hospital Review | Mar 25, 2024

Fifteen health systems were named top workplaces in the U.S. by USA Today and human resources technology company Energage.

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46 chief digital officers to know | 2024

Becker's Hospital Review | Mar 25, 2024

Becker's is delighted to name 46 hospital and health system chief digital officers to know.

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University of Queensland, Ochsner Celebrate High Residency Match

Biz New Orleans | Mar 18, 2024

On March 15, the University of Queensland Medical School – Ochsner Health and Ochsner Graduate Medical Education celebrated Match Day 2024, when applicants from around the globe learn who has been selected for which U.S. residency program.

This year, UQ Ochsner MD Program received a 99% match rate through the National Residency Match Program – the highest rate in the medical school’s history since securing a full cohort of students, exceeding the average national match rate of 93.5% for U.S. medical schools. Nearly 45,000 applicants participated in this year’s national match program.

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The future of healthcare teams: 35 executives share insights

Becker's Hospital Review | Mar 18, 2024

Becker's asked C-suite executives from hospitals and health systems across the U.S. to share their organization's areas of growth for the next few years.


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What's not talked about in healthcare enough?

Becker's Health IT | Mar 18, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of healthcare technology, industry leaders express a common concern: the overshadowing of fundamental practices by the allure of cutting-edge innovations.

Becker's asked seven hospital and health system leaders at the HIMSS 2024 annual meeting: What's something in healthcare or the health tech space that is not talked about enough?

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Top Private Companies 2024: ‘Organic growth’ helps boost Ochsner’s revenue across $7B in 2023

New Orleans City Business | Mar 18, 2024

While acquisition and expansion have grown Ochsner Health over the last 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, organic growth was a major contributing factor to the system’s increased revenue, up 14% year-over-year to a projected $7.3 billion in 2023.

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Maternal deaths in the U.S. spiked in 2021, CDC reports

NPR | Mar 18, 2024

In 2021, the U.S. had one of the worst rates of maternal mortality in the country's history, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report found that 1,205 people died of maternal causes in the U.S. in 2021. That represents a 40% increase from the previous year.

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Ochsner Health takes DIY approach to health workforce shortages

The American Medical Association | Mar 18, 2024

When the nation’s health care organizations were scrambling to find personal protective equipment (PPE) during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ochsner Health came up with a sustainable solution.

The New Orleans-based health system partnered with a local company to start a PPE-manufacturing business, SafeSource Direct, to ensure that it had a reliable source of quality exam gloves, N95 respirators, hair-bouffant head covers and isolation gowns.

Ochsner Health is taking the same approach in addressing its shortages of physicians, nurses and other health professionals by partnering with local institutions to educate and train staff to build its workforce.

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Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center offers new colorectal cancer treatments as rates rise among younger adults

The Times Picayune | Mar 18, 2024

At Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center in New Orleans, it isn’t unusual to see patients diagnosed with colorectal cancer at increasingly younger ages. Although the disease still most commonly affects those over age 50, the numbers have been rising the fastest among a younger population across the world and doctors have treated cases in people as young as their 20s. The reasons for the rise remain unclear, although researchers are examining nutrition, lifestyle factors, genetic makeup, and other possible causes.

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Louisiana physician developing new drug to treat pain — as safer alternative to opioids

The Advocate | Mar 1, 2024

Dr. Hernan Bazan, a physician at Ochsner Health who is also CEO and co-founder of South Rampart Pharma, Inc., was one of five researchers chosen from around the country for a National Institutes of Health award that aims to address addiction. The award, called Helping to End Addiction Long-term, or HEAL, Trailblazer Award, recognizes solutions to the opioid crisis. The drug is now ready for a Phase 2 trial.

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