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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.
Rebekah Elizabeth Gee (born December 4, 1975) is an American physician and public health policy expert who is Founder and CEO of Nest Health and served as the secretary of the Louisiana Department of Health from 2016 to 2020. [1] As Secretary, Gee led the expansion of Medicaid.
The Louisiana Department of Health's Drinking Water Revolving Loan Fund was found to have inadequate controls over their financial statements, resulting in $855,606 in excess federal funds above ...
A state health agency (SHA), or state department of health, is a department or agency of the state governments of the United States focused on public health. The state secretary of health is a constitutional or at times a statutory official in several states of the United States. The position is the chief executive official for the state's ...
SNAP benefits are administered by the Louisiana Department of Children & Family Services, which also determines when payments are sent to SNAP recipients. Payments in the state begin on the 5th of ...
Among the Louisiana individual rankings within the report: Housing costs, 40th; percentage of population in poverty, 49th; income growth, 47th; adults in fair or poor health, 46th; and average ...
The law mirrored a Texas state law that the Court found unconstitutional in 2016 in Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt (WWH). The Louisiana state law, as the Texas law, would have required doctors performing abortions to have admission privileges at a state-authorized hospital within 30 miles (48 km) of the abortion clinic. This law would have ...
NEW YORK — A person in Louisiana has the first severe illness caused by bird flu in the U.S., health officials said Wednesday. The patient had been in contact with sick and dead birds in ...