It’s the first inpatient mental health unit for pregnant and postpartum women in the state, and it will start accepting patients from across Louisiana one week from today. Today, Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge takes the wraps off its new Perinatal Mental Health Unit.
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Chief Nursing Officer Cheri Johnson says 20-percent of women experience pre-natal mood and anxiety disorder along with depression and 75-percent of those case go untreated.
The Louisiana Department of Economic Development will launch a national advertising campaign during Sunday’s LSU-USC game called Come Home Louisiana. L-E-D Secretary Susan Bourgeois says many college grads leave Louisiana for opportunities in other states and never return because they don’t realize there are opportunities here…
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Bourgeois says they are targeting mid-level workers to fill job openings.
State Senator Blake Miguez is seeking a legal opinion on U-L Lafayette’s decision to institute a one-thousand-foot gun free zone around the Science Museum in downtown Lafayette, because it’s considered part of the school. Miguez has concerns about disarming law-abiding citizens in areas that is not technically on university property…
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UL Lafayette officials maintain gun-free zones are necessary to ensure safety, particularly in areas where students and faculty frequently gather.
The National Hurricane Center is now keeping an eye on an area of low pressure in the Atlantic that currently has a low chance of developing into a named storm as it moves towards the Caribbean Sea. LSU Public Health Climatologist Barry Keim says this could be the start of a busy September…
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Today is the four-year anniversary of Hurricane Laura and Thursday is the 19th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s landfall.