August 8, 2017

The Obesity Action Coalition (OAC), along with the YMCA of Greater New Orleans and Dryades YMCA, will help New Orleans residents to learn more about their weight and health, receive a free health screening, and much more during the YWM Healthy Living EXPO. The EXPO will be hosted at the Sheraton New Orleans on Aug. 12 from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. The event is free for all New Orleans residents to attend.

August 8, 2017

University Medical Center New Orleans has launched the first Palliative Medicine outpatient clinic in the New Orleans and Gulf Coast area. The new clinic opened August 1 in the Ambulatory Care Building at UMC. Inpatient palliative medicine services will begin a month later, Sept. 1, and will be fully staffed by Fellowship trained, Board Certified palliative medicine physicians.

August 8, 2017

Ochsner Health System opened its new Ochsner Medical Complex – River Parishes, completing a relocation of services from the former River Parishes Hospital campus to a newly-constructed, state-of-the-art facility near Tiffany Drive and Airline Highway in LaPlace.

August 8, 2017

Christine Albert, LCMC Health Vice President of Marketing and Communications, has been appointed to the Board of the American Hospital Association’s Society for Healthcare Strategy & Market Development (SHSMD). 

August 8, 2017

St. Tammany Parish Hospital and Ochsner Health System announced next steps in bringing complex neurological care to patients on the North Shore. BrightMatter™, the latest innovation in brain tumor and disease diagnoses and surgery, is now available to patients at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans, as well as Ochsner Neurosciences Institute and St. Tammany Parish Hospital in Covington.