July 24, 2024

DePaul Community Health Centers (DCHC) will celebrate National Health Center Week  from Aug. 4-Aug. 9 by hosting several health and wellness events throughout the metro New Orleans area. Events include a ribbon cutting on Aug. 9 for a new, 20,000 square foot health center, located at 2801 General DeGaulle Drive in Algiers. National Health Center Week, sponsored by the National Association of Community Health Centers, is an annual celebration which raises awareness about the mission and accomplishments of America’s health centers.

July 24, 2024

A federal jury convicted a Louisiana physician yesterday for conspiring to illegally distribute over 1.8 million doses of Schedule II controlled substances, including oxycodone and morphine, and for defrauding healthcare benefit programs of more than $5.4 million.

July 16, 2024

Touro announced the appointment of Candace Stevens Robinson, MD, as the new chief medical officer. Robinson brings over 15 years of medical experience and more than nine years of healthcare leadership to her new role at Touro.

July 16, 2024

Thibodaux Regional Health System announced the addition of Kimberly S. Dalmau, MD, gastroenterology, to the active medical staff. She has joined Pasam Rao, MD, at Thibodaux Regional Gastroenterology Clinic located at 604 North Acadia Road, Suite 410, in Thibodaux.

July 16, 2024

St. Tammany Health System welcomed its inaugural class of family medicine resident physicians on July 1 to the newly launched St. Tammany Health System/Ochsner Family Medicine Residency program, a first-in-the-region initiative designed to train the area’s next generation of primary care physicians.

To start, six doctors will complete their family medicine training over the next three years at the 18,000-square-foot, purpose-built St. Tammany Physicians Network North Covington clinic at 17240 Heartbeat Circle near the intersection of U.S. 190 and Louisiana 25. They are: