Ochsner Health recently opened the Ochsner Health Center - Old Metairie, located at 800 Metairie Road in the Oakridge Shopping Center. The outpatient health center offers women’s health, primary, and pediatric care services onsite.
Ochsner Health Center - Old Metairie is a 12,500 square foot newly renovated facility featuring 27 examination rooms, a blood draw lab, and an x-ray room. The facility also features two waiting areas to enhance patient privacy.
St. Tammany Health System President and CEO Joan Coffman FACHE has been elected as an at-large delegate to the American Hospital Association Regional Policy Board 7 for the term Jan. 1, 2022, to Dec. 31, 2024.
AHA Regional Policy Boards discuss policy issues and alternatives. The boards then make recommendations and provide analyses to the AHA Board of Trustees for use in their policy deliberations.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated its recommendations for the Moderna booster, shortening the six-month interval between completing the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine series and receiving a booster dose to five months.
St. Tammany Quality Network presented its 2021 fourth-quarter Medical Director’s Award to Mark Jones, MD, for his role in establishing the trauma program at St. Tammany Health System.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently issued an emergency use authorization for Pfizer’s Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir tablets and ritonavir tablets), the first oral treatment for COVID-19.
The pill can be used to treat mild-to-moderate coronavirus disease in adults and pediatric patients who are 12 years of age and older weighing at least 40 kilograms (about 88 pounds) who test positive for COVID and are at high risk of hospitalization or death.
