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The Times of Houma Thibodaux

Ochsner Medical Center – New Orleans, inclusive of Ochsner Medical Center- West Bank Campus and Ochsner Baptist, is the highest-rated maternity hospital in Louisiana, according to Best Hospital for Maternity ratings released today by U.S. News & World Report – the global authority on hospital ratings and consumer advice.

Ochsner Medical Center – New Orleans, inclusive of Ochsner Medical Center- West Bank Campus and Ochsner Baptist*, is the highest-rated maternity hospital in L

The Times of Houma Thibodaux

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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Sixteen of the 49 Louisiana hospitals that regularly deliver babies have met new standards aimed at improving the state’s poor performance involving deaths resulting from pregnancy. The Louisiana Department of Health said Monday that 11 hospitals in the state are “Birth Ready” and five others met the higher designation of “Birth Ready+” under standards set by the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative. That’s a network of

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Sixteen of the 49 Louisiana hospitals that regularly deliver babies have met new standards aimed at improving the state’s poor performance involving deaths resulting from pregnancy. The Louisiana Department of Health said Monday that 11 hospitals in the state are “Birth Ready” and five others met the higher designation of “Birth Ready+” under standards set by the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative. That’s a network of

More than a dozen hospitals in Louisiana have earned a new designation for high-quality pregnancy care, as part of a push by the state health department to decrease Louisiana’s high maternal mortality rate and disparities in care that put Black women’s health most at risk.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Sixteen of the 49 Louisiana hospitals that regularly deliver babies have met new standards aimed at improving the state’s poor performance involving deaths resulting from pregnancy.