Louisiana’s hurricane season is here, Jun. 1-Nov. 30, and Louisiana Healthcare Connections wants to remind all residents that hurricane preparedness also involves healthcare preparedness.
Louisiana Healthcare Connections offers the following tips to help everyone prepare for medical needs during hurricane season:
• Have at least a seven-day supply of any medications you may be taking and backup medical items such as hearing aids, glasses, syringes, or contact lenses.
Ochsner Baton Rouge now offers the TenJet™ system. TenJet is a minimally invasive procedure for treating tendinopathy, or chronic tendon pain and swelling.
Conditions commonly known as tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow or jumpers’ knee are often caused by tendinopathy, which can also affect the shoulder, hip, or ankle. It is also associated with plantar fasciitis, a painful condition in the foot. These problems can occur from a single injury, though they are often the result of repetitive motion, overuse or microinjury.
Some of the primary obstacles patients face following a cancer diagnosis include how they will get to and from treatment and where they will stay if they have to travel for care. That hurdle is being made easier at Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center thanks to an $85,000 grant from the American Cancer Society. These dollars will be used across Cancer Center locations throughout southeast Louisiana and southwest Mississippi.
Ochsner Eat Fit hosts the 9th Annual Eat Fit Dine Out event June 3-10 with a new addition this year – a nutritious food drive for local food banks.
On Eat Fit Dine Out Week, Ochsner encourages the community to celebrate local Eat Fit partners by dining out at these restaurants. This year, Eat Fit dieticians also encourage residents to donate to local food banks during the newly named Dine Out and Donate Week.
The Eat Fit team invites diners to drop off their donations at the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank or make a monetary donation. Just $1 can provide up to 3 meals.
Woman’s Hospital has earned recognition as a Gift Shining Star designated hospital, which is the highest designation within The Gift program. The Gift is a quality improvement initiative and hospital designation program through the Louisiana Department of Health – Office of Public Health – Bureau of Family Health.
