HJNO Sep/Oct 2023

+ 12 Contents September / October 2023 I Vol. 12, No. 5 DEPARTMENTS Editor’s Desk .............................................................................................. 8 Healthcare Briefs ................................................................................. 37 Hospital Rounds ................................................................................... 61 Ad Index .................................................................................................... 66 CORRESPONDENTS LDH Corner ............................................................................................ 42 Children’s Health ................................................................................ 44 Nursing ...................................................................................................... 46 Medicaid .................................................................................................. 48 Senior Health ........................................................................................ 50 Women’s Health .................................................................................. 52 Oncology .................................................................................................. 54 Community Health ........................................................................... 56 Medical Society .................................................................................... 58 FEATURES Changing the Care of Chronic Conditions: Management of Obesity ......................................... 10 Kenny J. Cole, MD, MHCDS Value-Based Healthcare Correspondent Training More Nurses for Louisiana’s Future ........................................................ 17 Mike Thompson Healthcare Policy Analyst & Media Liaison Louisiana Hospital Association CTE: Football’s Aftermath - Part III ................... 20 Repetitive Head Impacts, Not Concussions, Believed to Cause CTE Leveraging football accelerometer data to quantify associations between repetitive head impacts and chronic traumatic encephalopathy in males Daneshvar, D.H.; Nair, E.S.; Baucom, Z.H. et al. Nature Communications 988 Lifeline Q&A ......................................................... 42 Karen Stubbs & Robyn Thomas LDH Office of Behavioral Health 20 10