HJNO Nov/Dec 2022

+ 12 Contents November / December 2022 I Vol. 11, No. 6 DEPARTMENTS Editor’s Desk .............................................................................................. 8 Healthcare Briefs ................................................................................. 33 Hospital Rounds ................................................................................... 59 Ad Index .................................................................................................... 66 CORRESPONDENTS LDH Corner ............................................................................................ 40 Children’s Health ................................................................................ 42 Nursing ...................................................................................................... 44 Medicaid .................................................................................................. 46 Senior Health ........................................................................................ 48 Medical Society .................................................................................... 50 Community Health ........................................................................... 52 Oncology .................................................................................................. 54 Fitness ........................................................................................................ 56 FEATURES Changing the Care of Chronic Conditions: High Blood Pressure ................................................... 10 Kenny J. Cole, MD, MHCDS System VP, Clinical Improvement Ochsner Health Can Scalable, Evidence-Based Community Health Worker Programs Help Narrow Healthcare Disparities and Improve Louisiana’s National Health Ranking? ................ 16 Mike Thompson Healthcare Policy Analyst & Media Liaison Louisiana Hospital Association Drug Addiction: Part V .......................................... 23 Challenges and Innovations in the Treatment of Cardiac Complications of Drug Abuse in Louisiana Zach Rozenbaum, MD Director of the Structural Heart Disease Program Tulane Medical Center ‘Goliath is wobbling’: Louisiana court strikes blow to Formosa’s giant plastics plant .......................... 29 Lylla Younes, Grist LCMC Health and Tulane University Announce Partnership. ................................... 60 29