Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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.
BATON ROUGE, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) reported that a resident in southwestern Louisiana is hospitalized with the state’s first human case of bird flu, known ...
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 ...
Incumbent's late arrival caused Lafourche to join an exclusive club, those few parishes whose coroners are not licensed physicians.
Louisiana was the first state to create a state board of health in 1855, [10] but it functioned primarily to influence regulations in New Orleans. [11] Massachusetts was the first to establish a state board that functioned throughout its state with statewide authority in 1869.
Asked if the case took place in California, where 36 of the 40 cases of H5N1 connected to dairy have occurred, a spokeswoman for the state's Department of Public Health said her department "can ...
Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!