The Rich Mauti Cancer Fund DBA Mauti Cancer Fund presented a $500,000 donation to St. Tammany Health Foundation, the philanthropic arm of St. Tammany Health System, for the purchase of a leading-edge mobile lung screening unit for use across the Northshore.
When it comes online in 2025, it is believed the Mauti-funded unit will be the first such vehicle dedicated to lung screenings in the state.
Thibodaux Regional Health System announced the addition of Nicole Branley, MD, to the active medical staff. Branley is available to care for patients at Thibodaux Regional Pediatric Clinic located 602 North Acadia Road, Suite 100, in Thibodaux.
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University Medical Center New Orleans (UMC) announced that its cancer program has achieved full accreditation from the American College of Surgeons' Commission on Cancer (CoC).
As a result of this achievement, UMC has earned the distinction of being recognized as an ACS Surgical Quality Partner.
The National Institutes of Health will award up to $4 million over five years to establish a coordinating center for research on aging. Led by the Tulane National Primate Research Center and developed in partnership with the California National Primate Research Center and Baylor College of Medicine, the coordinating center will focus on advancing aging research through studies of nonhuman primates.
