HJBR Jan/Feb 2025

+ %5 January / February 2025 I Vol. 18, No. 1 Contents DEPARTMENTS Healthcare Briefs ................................................ 33 Hospital Rounds ................................................. 47 Ad Index .................................................................... 50 CORRESPONDENTS Medicaid .................................................................... 40 Children’s Health ................................................. 42 Nursing ....................................................................... 44 FEATURES WARNING! If You Are Convicted of Molesting a Child in Louisiana, the State Will Now Surgically Castrate You. One on One . ......................................................................... 8 Regina Barrow Louisiana State Senator Changing the Care of Chronic Conditions: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Part B ............... 16 Kenny J. Cole, MD, MHCDS Value-Based Healthcare Correspondent Midwives: An Age-Old Solution for a Timely Problem ................................................... 22 Michelle Collins, PhD, CNM, RNC-EFM, FACNM, FAAN, FNAP Dean of Loyola University New Orleans College of Nursing and Health Dismantling Rural Access ......................................... 28 Mike Thompson Healthcare Policy Analyst & Media Liaison Louisiana Hospital Association 8 28