Ochsner Health has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2025 honor by Top Workplaces for Nursing. This list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage LLC. The confidential survey measures the employee experience and its component themes, including employees feeling “Respected & Supported, Enabled to Grow, and Empowered to Execute,” to name a few. Over 2,000 of Ochsner’s nurses participated in this survey.
By: Tristan Baurick, Verite - June 14, 2025 Louisiana Illuminator
On a summer night in 2023, an explosion at one of Louisiana’s biggest petrochemical complexes sent a plume of fire into the sky. More explosions followed as poison gas spewed from damaged tanks at the Dow chemical plant, triggering a shelter-in-place order for anyone within a half mile of the facility, which sprawls across more than 830 acres near Baton Rouge.
The Nov/Dec 2024 issue of Healthcare Journal of Baton Rouge (or New Orleans), included full transcripts and in-depth coverage of the Louisiana House Select Committee on Homeland Security's COVID-19 oversight hearings, including testimony from Surgeon General Ralph Abraham, MD, and the committee’s questioning of the state’s healthcare COVID-19 response.
Woman’s Hospital held a celebration for its newest mobile coach that will continue making mammograms more accessible to women in communities statewide, offering 3D technology. Woman’s President and CEO Rene Ragas was joined by Louisiana Department of Health Secretary Bruce Greenstein, hospital team members, cancer survivors, and community leaders.
Stacy Jones-Pedescleaux, MD, a family medicine physician at Ochsner Health Center – Prairieville, is a winner of UnitedHealthcare’s 2025 United Hero Award for Outstanding Patient Experience.
The award is presented annually to physicians nationwide and is based on direct patient feedback and honors physicians who “prioritize empathy, trust, and quality in every interaction.”
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