HJBR Nov/Dec 2022

+ %5 November / December 2022 I Vol. 15, No. 6 Contents DEPARTMENTS Editor’s Desk ............................................................. 8 Healthcare Briefs ................................................ 33 Hospital Rounds ................................................. 57 Ad Index .................................................................... 66 CORRESPONDENTS LDH Corner ............................................................. 42 Nursing ....................................................................... 44 Medicaid .................................................................... 46 Oncology ................................................................... 48 Children’s Health ................................................. 52 Fitness ......................................................................... 54 FEATURES ‘Goliath is wobbling’: Louisiana court strikes blow to Formosa’s giant plastics plant ........................... 11 Lylla Younes, Grist Changing the Care of Chronic Conditions: High Blood Pressure ...................................................... 14 Kenny J. Cole, MD, MHCDS System VP, Clinical Improvement Ochsner Health Can Scalable, Evidence-Based Community Health Worker Programs Help Narrow Healthcare Disparities and Improve Louisiana’s National Health Ranking? ................ 20 Mike Thompson Healthcare Policy Analyst & Media Liaison Louisiana Hospital Association Drug Addiction: Part V ................................................. 27 Challenges and Innovations in the Treatment of Cardiac Complications of Drug Abuse in Louisiana Zach Rozenbaum, MD Director of the Structural Heart Disease Program Tulane Medical Center 14 20