As a service to the community, the League of Women Voters of Louisiana has prepared an updated "HEALTH INSURANCE BASICS 2016" and posted it on its web site http://lwvofla.org. .
The document briefly discusses:
• The benefits of health insurance coverage
• The dates for Marketplace enrollment or renewal or change of an existing plan
• What information one needs to have on hand
• What steps one needs to take to enroll or renew or change an insurance plan.
Fourteen-year-old twins Gracie and Abbey Wainwright spent eight weeks in North Oaks Medical Center's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) as babies, but were on hand at this year's annual NICU Reunion to welcome their fellow "graduates."
For the eighteenth consecutive year, Our Lady of the Lake announced it has been selected as the NRC Health Consumer Choice Award winner for the hospital with the highest overall quality and image in the Baton Rouge metropolitan area.
The Consumer Choice Award, provided by NRC Health, identifies the top hospitals nationwide that healthcare consumers have chosen as being the most-preferred hospitals throughout the United States. Consumers see these hospitals as having the best doctors, best nurses, best image and reputation, and best overall quality in their respective markets.
Mary Bird Perkins – Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Center is one of only five facilities throughout the country selected to participate in a project with the Association of Community Cancer Centers (ACCC) to address disparities in cancer care for vulnerable populations. The ACCC Optimal Care Coordination Model for Lung Cancer Patients on Medicaid project seeks to reduce barriers to care through development of a care coordination model that will leverage effective partnerships among cancer programs and practices, community organizations, patients, and primary care and specialty providers.
LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center is marking Alzheimer’s Awareness Month by opening its participation in a new multi-site research study that seeks to test a new method for preventing Alzheimer’s disease. Funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), The Risk Reduction for Alzheimer’s Disease (rrAD) study aims to determine whether aerobic exercise combined with specific blood pressure and cholesterol medications can help preserve brain function.
