The Ochsner Accountable Care Network (OACN) has been recognized for its performance in both healthcare quality and cost savings for Medicare patients.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released its 2024 report on ACOs in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP). Ochsner ranked No. 3 out of 476 ACOs nationwide for care coordination, based on patient surveys. It also placed in the top 11% for overall quality.
Terrebonne General Health System announced the addition of Kelly Maiche, MD, Emergency Medicine Specialist, to the medical staff.
St. Tammany Health System celebrated some of the longest-tenured members of its workforce Oct. 23 at the organization’s 51st annual Service Awards Banquet, held at the Fleur de Lis Event Center in Mandeville.
The event featured individual honors for those colleagues who have served 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, and 45 years with the health system. Also honored were those nurses who earned the Daisy Award for Extraordinary Nursing in 2025, as well as those colleagues singled out for the health system’s quarterly Ambassador Award over the course of the past year.
Tulane University’s Anita Raj, PhD, globally recognized scholar for research on gender, public health, violence prevention, and numerous other areas, has been elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Raj serves as the executive director of Tulane’s Newcomb Institute and the Nancy Reeves Dreux Endowed Chair and Professor of Public Health in the Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. She has more than two decades of leadership in advancing research at the intersection of health, gender and global development.
Terrebonne General Health System honored Brian Roberts, MD, as the recipient of the Golden Stethoscope Award. Roberts has been an emergency medicine physician at Terrebonne General for 12 years and is the current Emergency Department medical director. He is board-certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
Roberts graduated from medical school at the American University of the Caribbean. He then completed his internship at Louisiana State University in Shreveport and his residency at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
