St. Tammany Health System, in collaboration with St. Tammany Cancer Center, a campus of Ochsner Medical Center, has been re-accredited by the Commission on Cancer (CoC), a quality program of the American College of Surgeons. This voluntary re-accreditation, which requires adherence to 34 quality care standards, is valid for three years.
To earn voluntary CoC accreditation, a cancer program must be evaluated every three years through a survey process and maintain levels of excellence in the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered care.
The American Heart Association announced Sharonda Williams, general counsel and director of government affairs at Loyola University, as the community volunteer chair of the 2022-2023 New Orleans area Go Red for Women movement. Go Red for Women is a worldwide initiative of the American Heart Association to increase women’s heart and brain health awareness and to improve the of women locally, nationally, and globally.