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A Medical Travesty: Trumps Vaccine Executive Order Signing; “Nothing Bad Can Happen”, and American Academy of Pediatrics and Over 210 Opposition to this Order

Ochsner Transplant Institute Performs 10,000th Transplant Surgery

Thibodaux Regional Welcomes Pradeep Thodima, MD, to the Medical Staff

July 1, 2025

RFK Jr. Joins Landry in Louisiana to App...

By: Greg LaRose and Piper Hutchinson - June 27, 2025 Louisiana Illuminator

Gov. Jeff Landry endorsed legislation Friday to “Make American Healthy Again” with the nation’s controversial top health official at his side for the bill signing ceremony.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attended a bill signing ceremony at Pennington Biomedical Research Center after helping craft legislation the Louisiana Legislature approved unanimously to regulate what ingredients can be in the food served in public school lunches.

July 1, 2025

Landry Vetoes Weight-loss Drug Insurance...

By: Julie O'Donoghue - June 26, 2025 Louisiana Illuminator

Gov. Jeff Landry struck language from the Louisiana budget plan that could have provided state employees and public school teachers with insurance coverage for popular weight-loss medication over the next year.

The governor does not think the state would be able to cover the cost for the obesity drugs on a long-term basis.

July 1, 2025

Ochsner, Second Harvest Food Bank Launch...

On July 8, Second Harvest Food Bank and Ochsner Health will officially launch the Makin’ Groceries Mobile Market at Ochsner Medical Center- New Orleans, bringing fresh, affordable groceries directly to patients, healthcare workers, and the surrounding community. The market will operate twice a month, alternating between Ochsner Medical Center – New Orleans and West Campus.

July 1, 2025

STQN Announces Medical Director’s Award...

St. Tammany Quality Network (STQN) announced that Joseph Landers, MD, and Andrew Baier, MD, have been awarded the Northshore organization’s Medical Director’s Award for the second quarter of 2025, in recognition of their contributions to the development and implementation of Structured Interdisciplinary Bedside Rounding (SIBR) at St. Tammany Health System.

June 24, 2025

Good News for the Health Insurance Compa...

By: Dianne Marie Normand Hartley

In a Monday press conference billed as “Secretary Kennedy, Administrator Oz to Host Press Conference to Discuss Groundbreaking Health Insurance Reform,” the topic was prior authorizations.

We won’t go into the weeds—you’ve heard it all before. In 2018. In 2023. And now again in 2025.

We weren’t in the room, but I imagine insurance executives were thrilled. Something along the lines of: “Thanks for not regulating us—of course we’ll begin to monitor ourselves. They’re starting to pop us out there.”