The Health Secretary, the War Budget, and the Louisiana Doctor Who Kept Fact-Checking
By Dianne Marie Normand Hartley
Editor’s Note: The results of Operation Stork Speed may prove useful not because it revealed a poisoned formula supply, but because it tested an alarming claim against evidence. The result was not a scandal. It was a reminder that oversight matters, trace contaminants exist across the food system, and public health leaders should be as willing to reassure parents as they are to frighten them.
FMOL Health | Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital recognized Child Abuse Prevention Month by joining Child Advocacy Services to support the nationwide Pinwheels for Prevention campaign. Team members from across the ministry came together to plant pinwheels to support the annual awareness campaign.
Louisiana Healthcare Connections announced the opening of its 2026 Major Investment Community Health Grants cycle, making $100,000 in total funding available to organizations working to improve health outcomes across the state.
Gov. Jeff Landry announced that Louisiana anticipates approval later this year from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) of its Section 1115 Medicaid Reentry Demonstration Waiver. Louisiana was the first state in the nation to align its waiver to reflect new federal requirements under Sec. 71118 of H.R. 1 (OBBBA). This requirement establishes budget-neutrality mandates for Medicaid demonstration projects beginning on January 1, 2027.
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