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The Advocate
April 30, 2018
Around 12:03 a.m., the Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received a mayday call from a person who said that multiple people were injured after their boat struck the rig about 23 nautical miles southeast of Venice. The Coast Guard ... Two of the boaters were airlifted to a New Orleans hospital. One suffered aÃâà...
NOLA.com
April 22, 2018
A 20-year-old man was brought to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest, marking the eighth victim in the sixth shooting reported in New Orleans on Sunday (April 22), according to New Orleans police. The man arrived at the hospital about 9:30 p.m. and told police he was shot in the 7th Ward, nearÃâà...
The Advocate
April 22, 2018
A man died early Sunday after he was ejected from a scooter he was riding in the Bywater neighborhood, New Orleans police said. ... On Saturday, police investigated another traffic incident involving a carjacking in New Orleans East. Shortly ... He was transported to an area hospital in stable condition.
The Advocate
April 22, 2018
The Charity Hospital of Louisiana building is seen at 1544-90 Tulane Ave. in New Orleans, La., Wednesday, April 18, 2018. .... Noting that thousands of people work in the hospitals and medical offices within the district, Maurin said key things lacking in the immediate area are housing and restaurants, andÃâà...
NOLA.com
April 19, 2018
But the legislators also can't bear to fully fund TOPS and make more cuts to health care that hurt nursing homes and hospitals, including University Medical Center in New Orleans. The House's budget gives UMC only 11 percent of the funding the hospital says it needs. Funding at that level would likely leadÃâà...
New Orleans CityBusiness (blog)
April 16, 2018
LSU has begun the formal process of seeking developers and investors to revitalize the former Charity Hospital adjacent to the LSU Health New Orleans campus downtown. The LSU Real Estate Facilities Foundation on Monday said it has issued a request for qualifications from groups “that demonstrateÃâà...
WGNO
April 9, 2018
The visitor came to New Orleans late last week from the United Kingdom. He became increasingly ill through the week and was admitted to the hospital over the weekend. Doctors quickly recognized that the individual may have measles and sent samples to the Office of Public Health laboratory for testing.
WDSU New Orleans
April 9, 2018
Louisiana health officials confirmed Monday a case of measles from a European traveler who recently visited New Orleans. The traveler from the United Kingdom, who has not been identified, is undergoing treatment at a New Orleans hospital, according to officials with the Louisiana Department of Health.
Shreveport Times
April 6, 2018
Glover: Fund safety net hospitals in Shreveport, New Orleans equally ... This is why I have drafted and introduced House Bill 885, the Safety Net Hospital Preservation Act, to prevent north Louisiana from being short changed by a non-transparent ... It is time to depoliticize the funding for safety net hospitals.
WGNO
April 1, 2018
"Every child...we don't miss one child in the city of New Orleans who is in a hospital, they're serviced, and every child who is in a known transitional housing shelter here is serviced today," Brown says. This is service they say doesn't feel like a service...even as they pack up and go to hospitals like TulaneÃâà...
NOLA.com
March 17, 2018
The wounded man was taken to a New Orleans-area hospital by a private vehicle and was undergoing surgery, NOPD spokesman Aaron Looney said. Lashon Doyle, who owns the duplex, said the body of the man was found in the backyard. She said she didn't know whether it was someone who livedÃâà...
NOLA.com
March 17, 2018
New Orleans' answer is a new, 100-bed homeless shelter scheduled to open later this spring on the second-floor of the old Veterans Administration hospital downtown, on Gravier Street. The facility is called a low-barrier shelter, referring to the lack of a sobriety requirement, entrance fee or minimum stay.
The Advocate
March 17, 2018
John Bel Edwards' proposed budget for the 2019 fiscal year budget reduces that to zero, as it does for nine other state-owned hospitals that are privately managed in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and elsewhere. If enacted as proposed, the budget could prompt the private hospital operators to declareÃâà...
The Advocate
March 17, 2018
In 2013, CeaseFire New Orleans expanded to include a new Hospital Crisis Intervention Team at the UMC Trauma Center. This team responds to violence across all of New Orleans with a proactive emphasis on Nola For Life hot spots. The goal is to prevent the victim from being shot again and preventÃâà...
NOLA.com
March 14, 2018
LCMC Health said it will walk away from running University Medical Center in New Orleans if Louisiana doesn't do something to fix its state budget crisis. ... Hospitals face competition for that money from the TOPS college scholarship program, sheriffs, district attorneys and health care programs for theÃâà...
NOLA.com
March 7, 2018
Officials celebrate the grand opening, ribbon cutting and tour of the new Veterans Medical Center in New Orleans Friday, November 18, 2016. Along with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and Governor John Bel Edwards, US Senator Bill Casidy, Dr. David Sulking and VA Secretary Robert McDonaldÃâà...
New Orleans CityBusiness (blog)
March 6, 2018
New graduates for the medical/surgical area and licensed practical nurses will also be considered. The New Orleans health care industry has faced a nursing shortage for years. Ochsner Health System announced this month a partnership with Chamberlain University to put a campus at Ochsner MedicalÃâà...
CNBC
February 28, 2018
So one hospital group, Ochsner Health System in New Orleans, has been working with Epic, the company that makes its medical record software, and Microsoft's cloud ... But that's starting to change as more hospitals form alliances with technology companies, which include data-sharing agreements.
WWLTV.com
December 31, 1999
NEW ORLEANS -- The 3-year-old, $1.2 billion public hospital in New Orleans is now treating nearly 350,000 patients a year. The poor and uninsured from across Louisiana depend on safety-net hospitals like University Medical Center for healthcare. Tuesday, LaShaun and Chris Wilson from Tallulah wereÃâà...
NOLA.com
December 31, 1999
Without state funding, it would have to let go 213 physicians and 252 medical residents -- to say nothing of other staff -- who work at the New Orleans hospital. The operators could possibly close the hospital as soon as July 1. It's not clear whether not funding the hospitals -- or having some close -- wouldÃâà...
NOLA.com
December 31, 1999
Previous competitive bids outlined a vision for Charity Hospital in 2015 that included a bid from New Orleans developer Joseph Stebbin that proposed a 600-unit apartment building, an extended-stay motel and housing for medical students. The company formed to bid on the property offered $30 million forÃâà...
The Advocate
December 31, 1999
Jerry Jones, LSU Health New Orleans Health Care Services Division Director of Facility Planning announced a contract to clean out Charity Hospital in New Orleans, La. Monday, Jan. 9, 2017. The building has been vacant since the federal levee failures following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Workers haveÃâà...
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