DePaul Community Health Centers (DCHC) is observing Domestic Violence Awareness Month in an effort to unite, support, and create change for survivors of abuse, especially mothers, their loved ones, advocates, and community members.
Violence is among the largest contributors to mental health disorders. Statistics show that 35-70% of women subjected to domestic violence are diagnosed with depression later in life and that domestic violence and postpartum depression are very closely linked.
Louisiana State University of Alexandria (LSUA) and LSU Health New Orleans announced the launch of the first dental hygiene program in Central Louisiana. Working together, LSU Health New Orleans School of Dentistry expanded its dental hygiene program to an off-campus instructional site located in LSUA’s downtown campus.
St. Tammany Health System has become the second in the region and the first on the Northshore to offer robotic-assisted Aquablation therapy, a minimally invasive treatment for lower urinary tract symptoms due to an enlarged prostate.
Enabling surgeons to better preserve a patient’s sexual function and continence by removing part of the prostate tissue while avoiding critical structures, Aquablation therapy has been proven in clinical studies to offer predictable and reproducible outcomes, independent of prostate anatomy, prostate size, or surgeon experience.
LCMC Health Urgent Care is seeing patients at its new urgent care clinic in Chalmette.
The new urgent care is located at 8100 W. Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette, right across from the Walmart Supercenter.
LCMC Health Urgent Care treats patients three months of age and older for a variety of minor illnesses and injuries.
Other services offered at LCMC Health Urgent Care include rapid COVID-19 testing and occupational health services for workplace injuries, DOT/Non-DOT physicals, blood analysis, return-to-work exams, and drug testing.
Terrebonne General Health System announced the Terrebonne General Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Clinic is a recipient of RestorixHealth’s Wound Center of Excellence Award. Recipients of this award meet or exceed national wound care quality benchmarks over a set period of time.
