July 27, 2017

Baton Rouge General Physicians (BRGP) announced that Jeffrey Burnham, MD, has joined Baton Rouge General Physicians – Family Medicine on Picardy to practice Family and Sports Medicine.

July 20, 2017

Pointe Coupee Hospice has been named a 2017 Hospice Honors Elite recipient by Deyta Analytics, a division of HealthCAREfirst, the leading provider of Web-based home health and hospice software, outsourced billing and coding services, and advanced analytics. Hospice Honors is a prestigious program that recognizes hospices providing the highest level of quality as measured from the caregiver’s point of view.

July 20, 2017

American Heart Association has elected Dr. Steven Kelley of the Baton Rouge community to serve on its 2017-2018 regional Greater Southeast Affiliate Board of Directors. Dr. Kelley is a cardiologist at Baton Rouge Cardiology Center.

July 20, 2017

With hurricane season upon us, pregnant women and their families need to take extra precautions to ensure that things go smoothly, whether evacuating or staying. Making preparations now can spare a new mother from unnecessary worry during power outages, and storm recovery later.

Bethanie Genre, CNM, Midwife with Ochsner Health Center – O’Neal, offers the following tips to expecting mothers:

-Plan an alternate birth location in the event of road problems or evacuation.

July 20, 2017

For eight years, Dr. Craig Walker has visited China, annually, to offer physician training on interventional treatments for peripheral vascular disease (PVD) and limb salvage.  Plans are now underway for a specialized limb salvage program at The 16th People's Hospital of Zhengzhou in China, that Dr. Walker will establish from the ground up.