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The donated breast milk is used for babies in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit. Ochsner says their supply is low and new donors are hard to come by these days as more mothers are choosing to breastfeed their newborns.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON WBRZThe Nathanson Family Foundation has generously gifted Ochsner Hospital for Children $2.5 million to support the expansion of its Congenital Heart Defect Program led by congenital cardiac surgeon Dr. Benjamin B. Peeler.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON Biz New OrleansOchsner Health recognized the value of mobile communication in medicine early on and has steadily increased its adoption, says Dr. Louis Jeansonne, chief medical information officer. Headquartered in New Orleans with 11 facilities in southern Louisiana and Mississippi, Ochsner now relies on features available on its Epic electronic medical records system to enable prompt, mobile communications for practitioners, says Jeansonne.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON Health Tech Magazinehe Milk Depot at Ochsner Medical Center says they are in need of mothers with surplus breast milk to donate.
With the nationwide commercial formula shortage, the milk bank at Ochsner Baptist has received calls from family members across the state requesting donor milk as a formula substitute for their newborn.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON WBRZThe chief information officer explains the ways the New Orleans health system uses emerging technologies to achieve its goals.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON Healthcare Finance NewsThe facility is designed to be a destination for patients 65 and older, and will include a primary care clinic, gym and community center. Pearson’s owner Jerry Pearson closed the retail space last year, but continues to operate his travel agency from a smaller office in the same strip center.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON Baton Rouge Business ReportOchsner Health doctors and researchers are studying a new blood test, the Galleri test, that can detect more than 50 types of cancer and allow for earlier treatment.
“We feel the Galleri test could be a real game changer because it could allow us to detect cancer earlier,” said Dr. Marc Matrana, director of the Precision Cancer Therapies (Phase I) Research Program at Ochsner. “In the treatment of cancer, we know that detecting cancer at earlier stages allows for more cures, and with multi-cancer detection tests like Galleri we estimate that we can reduce the number of stage 3 and stage 4 cancers by 60%, which could translate to upwards of almost 40% reduction in the five-year cancer death rate.”
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON New Orleans City BusinessOchsner LSU Health Shreveport joins just three other Comprehensive Stroke Centers in the state, and is the first outside of the New Orleans area. Comprehensive Stroke Centers must meet rigorous criteria and commitment of resources, including an acute stroke team, mechanical thrombectomy, advanced neuroimaging, and neurosurgical services, all available 24/7; neurologist and Neurosurgeon accessibility to meet emergent needs of multiple complex stroke patients at the same time; and highly advanced treatment capabilities and investigational opportunities.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON The Ouachita CitizenOchsner Vision Center – Destrehan, located at 13100 River Road, Suite 220, is equipped with an autorefractor allowing for a quick reading for prescription glasses before a complete exam, a pachymeter to measure the thickness of a patient’s cornea, a vision center for eyeglasses and contact lenses, and three exam rooms with the ability to treat most vision needs. Patients can make appointments to see an Ochsner optometrist and ophthalmologist Monday – Friday.
VIEW THIS ARTICLE ON L'ObservateurNational Nurses Week is May 6 through May 12 — a time to celebrate the remarkable contributions of nurses. This week, I’m reflecting on my own journey to nursing, which began at Baptist Hospital (now Ochsner Baptist). I wasn’t a patient or a volunteer, and it was my 16th birthday. This milestone day was spent sitting by my mother, who was in a coma. Her illness was incurable, and I’d spent weeks grieving and waiting. Time felt like it stood still in that room, which is ironic as few experiences can make you grow up faster than losing someone.
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