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As difficult as it may be for some New Orleanians and their neighbors to conceive, the medical director at Ochsner Medical Ochsner-West Bank said, the post-storm landscape of the U.S. Gulf Coast pales in comparison with the total devastation in the Haitian capital city of Port-au-Prince and the surrounding region.
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A federal arbitration panel awarded Louisiana $475 million Wednesday for hurricane-related damage to Charity HospitalThe $475 million brings the state more than halfway to the financing it needs for building a new hospital on a lower Mid-City tract bordered by South Claiborne Avenue, Canal Street, Galvez Street and Tulane Avenue.
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About 600 mid-city homeowners are resisting the new VA hospital and don't want to sell their property.
The VA hospital is being built on property bound by Tulane, south Rocheblave Canal and south Galvez. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs said it expects to have all the land necessary by July 2010. The 200-bed VA medical complex is scheduled to open in 2013.
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FEMA has urged a federal arbitration panel to reject claims that the state is owed $492 million for hurricane damages to LSU's Charity Hospital in New Orleans. It's the latest development in a fight over funds that are key to LSU's finance plans for construction of a new $1.2 billion academic medical center.
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Ochsner admits some embryos frozen for later use were mislabeled - or are missing - in its in vitro fertilization center.
In New Orleans, Ochsner Hospital's admitted mishandling of frozen embryos could be costly to more than its reputation. Lawyers are circling, for as many as 100 affected patients, reports CBS News correspondent Mark Strassmann.
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Ochsner Health System of New Orleans went live on the DocuSys Anesthesia Information Management and Anesthesia Drug Management system in 41 anesthetizing locations at Ochsner Medical Center and the Ochsner-Merrill Hines Surgery Center. Ochsner is one of the largest non-university based physician training centers in the nation that has received the Consumer Choice for Healthcare in New Orleans for 13 consecutive years, and has been ranked a "Best" Hospital by U.S. News and World Report.
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Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro said his office has not reopened an investigation into the deaths at Memorial Hospital in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.Cannizzaro issued the statement Friday in the wake of reports that the case was being re-examined by different agencies. ...
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As the prospects of re-opening old Charity as a medical facility dim, new ideas about the building's future are surfacing...
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A plan calls for renovating the old Methodist Hospital on Read Boulevard into an 80-bed facility to serve more than 80,000 people.
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Lane Carson, secretary for the Louisiana Department of Veteran's Affairs, said architects are meeting this week to come up with a design for the VA and the teaching hospital projects.
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