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The department's mission is to protect and promote health and to ensure access to medical, preventive and rehabilitative services for all citizens of the state of Louisiana. [4] It is Louisiana's largest state agency with a budget of $21 billion and over 6,500 personnel.
Louisiana’s Department of Health (LDH) “will no longer promote mass vaccination” according to a memo sent out by the state’s top health official on Thursday shortly after vaccine sceptic ...
In 1995, Jindal was appointed secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals. In 1999, he was appointed president of the University of Louisiana System. At 28, Jindal became the youngest person to hold the position. In 2001, President George W. Bush appointed Jindal as principal adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human ...
Southern Louisiana's hospitals, already packed with coronavirus patients from a fourth surge of the virus, were dealing Sunday with another challenge — the howling Category 4 hurricane pounding ...
Although the vast majority of these agencies are officially called "departments," the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials adopted "state health agency" as the generic term to reflect the fact that a substantial number of these agencies are no longer state "departments" in the traditional sense of a cabinet-level organizational unit dedicated exclusively to public health. [2]
While human cases are rare and are mostly found among farmworkers, one person has died from bird flu. The Louisiana Public Health Department reported the first bird flu-related human death in the U.S.
Jefferson Parish Hospital District No. 2 v. Hyde: Supreme Court case involving hospital; Levy v. Louisiana: Supreme Court case involving hospital in New Orleans; Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans; Ochsner Health System
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