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New Ochsner Facility to Provide First-of-its-kind Care to Special Needs Children in Region

RSV is spreading in summer, CDC warns, worrying parents and doctors

NBC News | Jul 9, 2021

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.

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Ochsner helps local high school with taking charge for vaccinations

WVUE | Jul 9, 2021

St. 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.

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Ochsner Health Takes Remote Patient Monitoring to a National Level

mHealth Intelligence | Jul 5, 2021

While 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.

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Pandemic pivots Ochsner Health to new role: PPE manufacturer

American Medical Association | Jul 2, 2021

Ochsner 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.

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Ochsner Health chosen to sequence COVID-19 variants circulating in Louisiana

ArkLaTex | Jun 30, 2021

The 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.

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Ochsner LSU Health announces a new affiliation that can provide service to rural health facilities

Shreveport Times | Jun 29, 2021

During the press conference, Ochsner LSU Health announced that it will be launching a new affiliation with DeSoto Regional Health System this Thursday, July 1st.

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Ochsner Lafayette General Medical Center Building New 6-Floor Tower, Additional Parking In $100 Million Upgrade

Developing Lafayette | Jun 28, 2021

The 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).

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Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport holds "Warrior Walk" for employee

KTBS | Jun 22, 2021

Byron 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.

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Ochsner extends vaccine trial to children as young as 6 months

WDSU | Jun 21, 2021

On Monday, Ochsner Health began enrolling children five and under for its Pfizer vaccine trials.

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Kim Keene, CEO of St. Bernard Parish Hospital at Ochsner Health System

Becker's Hospital Review | Jun 20, 2021

This 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.


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