While the COVID-19 virus pandemic continues to understandably garner the lion’s share of attention within the healthcare community, other conditions and diseases such HIV continue to impact the community. Approximately 50% of new HIV diagnoses in the United States and dependent areas are in the South, despite these areas comprising only one-third of this country’s entire population.
June 29, 2021
June 29, 2021
Terrebonne General Health System, along with their partner Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center, has named Amy Boudreaux, RN, the Cancer Center program director. Boudreaux is a Houma native and is a graduate of the Loyola College of Nursing with 28 years of professional nursing healthcare experience. She has served as the manager of medical oncology at the Cancer Center since December 2018.
June 24, 2021
The Commission on Cancer (CoC), a program of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), has granted three-year accreditation to Mary Bird Perkins – Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center. To earn voluntary CoC accreditation, a cancer program must meet 34 CoC quality care standards, be evaluated every three years through a survey process, and maintain levels of excellence in the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered care.
June 24, 2021
After serving four seasons as head team physician for the New Orleans Saints, Larry “Chip” Bankston, MD, has chosen to depart from the Superdome sidelines. Bankston is officially stepping away effective July 1.
June 24, 2021
The Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI) and Healthy Blue hosted its inaugural Symposium on Racial and Health Equity in Louisiana, held in March 2021, and continue with the announcement of the first cohort for the Racial and Health Equity Learning Lab. A video, designed to give viewers a sense of the spirit and purpose of the partnership, Symposium, and outcomes, is available at http://bit.ly/2021RacialHealthEquityLA.
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