Ochsner Health is a system that delivers health to the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and the Gulf South with a mission to Serve, Heal, Lead, Educate and Innovate.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory last month that respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is unexpectedly spreading in Southern states.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON NBC NewsSt. Augustine High School of New Orleans is in partnership with Ochsner Health Center New Orleans and offered the first round of the Pfizer vaccine this morning. This opportunity was open to the first one hundred students who signed up with parental consent.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON WVUEWhile many healthcare providers are just now getting into the remote patient monitoring arena, Ochsner Health has scaled its platform to a national level, and is now monitoring more than 20,000 people in health plans across the country.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON mHealth IntelligenceOchsner and Alabama-based construction contractor and property developer Trax Development started a joint venture, SafeSource Direct, with $150 million. SafeSource is putting $73 million toward retrofitting an 80,000-square-foot manufacturing facility that will also serve as a headquarters, and $77 million is going for the development of a new facility.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON American Medical AssociationThe project will provide valuable insight into the SARS-CoV-2 variants circulating in Louisiana, as well as any emerging variants. The LDH’s epidemiology teams will leverage the data collected to monitor mutations in the virus across the state. The first batch of sequences revealed a case of the Delta Plus (AY.2) variant present in New Orleans in early June.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON ArkLaTexDuring the press conference, Ochsner LSU Health announced that it will be launching a new affiliation with DeSoto Regional Health System this Thursday, July 1st.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON Shreveport TimesThe new expansion project also expands upon women’s services, which includes 23 new mother/baby rooms and 15 new NICU beds. Three out of the six floors will be white-walled in anticipation of future growth, which would include three additional 24-bed units(72 beds).
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON Developing LafayetteByron Bolanos, a respiratory therapist who has been with Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport for 22 years, has taken care of many COVID-19 patients in the last year. On February 1 of this year, he himself became a patient admitted with COVID-19. A couple weeks later he was put on ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygen), becoming the system’s longest duration of a COVID patient needing ECMO.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON KTBSOn Monday, Ochsner Health began enrolling children five and under for its Pfizer vaccine trials.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON WDSUThis episode features Kim Keene, CEO of St. Bernard Parish Hospital at Ochsner Health System. Here, she discusses her career journey, her thoughts on strategy, and more.