Ochsner Health has been awarded a Top Workplaces 2025 honor by Top Workplaces for Nursing. This list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage LLC. The confidential survey measures the employee experience and its component themes, including employees feeling “Respected & Supported, Enabled to Grow, and Empowered to Execute,” to name a few. Over 2,000 of Ochsner’s nurses participated in this survey.
June 18, 2025
By: Tristan Baurick, Verite - June 14, 2025 Louisiana Illuminator
On a summer night in 2023, an explosion at one of Louisiana’s biggest petrochemical complexes sent a plume of fire into the sky. More explosions followed as poison gas spewed from damaged tanks at the Dow chemical plant, triggering a shelter-in-place order for anyone within a half mile of the facility, which sprawls across more than 830 acres near Baton Rouge.
June 18, 2025
LCMC Health announced that five of its hospitals have earned an “A” grade from The Leapfrog Group.
The following all received an “A” grade:
• East Jefferson General Hospital
• Lakeside Hospital
• Lakeview Hospital
• Touro
• West Jefferson Medical Center
June 10, 2025
The Nov/Dec 2024 issue of Healthcare Journal of Baton Rouge (or New Orleans), included full transcripts and in-depth coverage of the Louisiana House Select Committee on Homeland Security's COVID-19 oversight hearings, including testimony from Surgeon General Ralph Abraham, MD, and the committee’s questioning of the state’s healthcare COVID-19 response.
June 10, 2025
The Louisiana Department of Health reminds residents to protect themselves against mosquito bites that could lead to vector-borne diseases, including West Nile virus.
Mosquito activity increases during the warmer summer months, which raises the risk of mosquito-borne diseases.
West Nile virus
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