DePaul Community Health Centers (DCHC) is once again partnering with Second Harvest Food Bank (SHFB) to distribute free groceries through a drive-thru food pantry at DCHC’s Carrollton Warehouse, 3201 Short Street (located behind the Carrollton health center), on June 10 from 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The food giveaway is held the second Friday of each month and is open to everyone.
For more information, call (504) 610-3157.
Our Lady of the Lake Assumption Community Hospital is now recognized as an Acute Stroke-Ready Hospital in the Louisiana Stroke System thanks to a new Telestroke remote care system. This technology is new to the Assumption Parish community and will allow hospital staff to quickly treat stroke patients.
The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System will hold a nursing job fair on June 4 from 8 a.m.-12 n.n in the administration building at the New Orleans Veterans Medical Center, 2400 Canal Street. Hiring managers will interview and may make tentative job offers to registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and nursing assistants for all shifts.
The American College of Cardiology has conferred on St. Tammany Health System its Platinum Performance Achievement Award for sustained high-level performance in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry Chest Pain-MI Registry. STHS is one of only 240 hospitals nationwide to receive the honor.
Some 1.1 million Americans are hospitalized each year with congestive heart failure (CHF), and the average hospitalized patient faces a one-year mortality of 30 percent and a readmission rate of 50 percent at six months. With this disease as its top readmission diagnosis, Ochsner Health created a Transitional Care Clinic in October to reduce readmissions and, ultimately, improve the quality of life and survival of these patients. Since then, the clinic has reduced CHF readmission rates by three percent, caring for more than 300 patients post hospital discharge.
