Louisiana news and information

Two former Louisiana healthcare secretaries pushed Friday for expanding Medicaid in the state to cover thousands of uninsured residents, pitting them against Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal.
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A medical school partnership between Ochsner Health System and an Australian university has graduated its first nine students.
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While they spoke to a much smaller crowd than former President Bill Clinton did the day before, political strategists James Carville and Karl Rove closed out the HIMSS annual conference and exhibition in lively fashion, and may have engaged the audience more than the former president did—even...
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Stephen Lieber, President and CEO of HIMSS, chats with Modern Healthcare Reporter Joseph Conn about why he thinks this year's HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans was a success.
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Karen DeSalvo, New Orleans' commissioner of health, describes how the devastation of Hurricane Katrina eventually led to the creation of patient-centered medical homes and advanced use of health records, in an interview with Andis Robeznieks, Modern Healthcare reporter at the HIMSS 2013 Annual...
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Modern Healthcare Reporter Paul Barr goes over some of the highlights of Day 2 of the HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition, and previews Day 3.
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Paul Barr, reporter for Modern Healthcare, describes some of the highlights from the first day of the HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition, and previews Day 2.
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BATON ROUGE, La.—Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration scrapped plans to shutter Louisiana's Medicaid hospice program in February. Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein announced the reversal as hospice program supporters were gathering for a candlelight vigil on the state...
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Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration scrapped plans Wednesday to shutter the state's Medicaid hospice program in February.
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A private operator has agreed to run the LSU hospital in Lake Charles, La., that cares for the uninsured, Gov. Bobby Jindal's administration announced Friday. The agreement is part of the administration's efforts to move away from a university-run public hospital system.
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