Healthcare

NEW ORLEANS – On March 17, LCMC Health announced that they were raising the minimum wage of their employees to $15 an hour, a...

The Complete Care Urgent Center, founded by General Surgeon Dr. Calvin Williams and Allergist Dr. Cheryl Williams, is officially opening its doors to serve the community.

The initiative spans dining and retail spaces throughout Ochsner facilities, from cafés and micro-markets to beverage and food vending machines, ensuring that patients, employees, visitors and guests can easily identify and choose Eat Fit options.

This wage increase comes as nurses with LCMC Health have been organizing since March of 2023 and qualified RNs continue to voice their concerns and leave their positions due to chronic understaffing and poor working conditions.

Community leaders, health care professionals, nonprofit partners, and supporters gathered to reflect on a century of service that began with the hospital’s founding in 1926.

“This new collaboratory affords us the opportunity to pair emerging neurotechnology with real-world clinical care to better understand how we can slow cognitive decline, improve patients’ lives and open new therapeutic pathways for other neurological diseases in the future."

Project M.O.M. is seeking to proactively prevent these deaths by standardizing substance use screening, addressing stigma and bias and implementing evidence-based practices across the state. 

NEW ORLEANS – LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine is among more than 50 higher education institutions nationwide that have joined a new...

NEW ORLEANS – LCMC Health is raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour, a roughly 30 percent increase that will take effect April...

NEW ORLEANS – Manning Family Children’s has been honored with the Vermont Oxford Network (VON) Award for Excellence in Quality Improvement, a distinguished national...