Healthcare workers in Shreveport and Monroe are taking Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport, St Mary Medical Center and Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport to court over mandates by those facilities to be vaccinated. Jimmy Faircloth, an attorney for the plaintiffs says the suits filed today are part of an employee’s fight for medical freedom.
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The suit seeks to enforce the affirmative right under Louisiana law to refuse medical treatment.
Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s spokesman Brennan Matherne tells us today that more than five weeks after Hurricane Ida, only about one-third of the debris from the storm has been picked up. It’s one of the frustrations that residents are facing.
Matherne says huge piles of debris along the parish’s highways are still causing issues, including for motorists.
Sixteen hospitals in the state that deliver babies have met new standards designed to improve the state’s poor maternal death rate. Medical Director of the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative Dr. Veronica Gillespie-Bell says they are working to reduce maternal death rates in which hypertension and hemorrhage are the leading causes.
The collaborative was launched in 2018 joining healthcare providers and community advocates to improve birthing outcomes.
Now here’s your commodity report for this Wednesday afternoon.