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Ochsner, Lafayette General to cancel COVID-19 vaccine appointments as supply shifts Andrew Capps, Lafayette Daily Advertiser © Courtesy of Ochsner Health System Dr. Leo Seoane, chief academic officer for Ochsner Health System, becomes among the first Louisianans to be vaccinated for COVID-19 as Louisianas frontline healthcare workers begin to receive the first COVID-19 vaccinations in the state on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020. Ochsner Health System and Ochsner Lafayette General will...

Originally published on January 8, 2021 4:34 pm Louisiana hospitals are scrambling to immunize an ever-broadening pool of Louisianans eligible for COVID-19 vaccines, even as they struggle to keep up with the rising tide of COVID-19 patients. On Wednesday, administrators across the state’s hospital systems laid out their immunization plans. This follows a directive issued by the Louisiana Department of Health on Tuesday urging the state’s hospitals to begin administering their excess doses ...

Baton Rouge / louisianaradionetwork.com Jan 6, 2021 7:24 PM Representatives for Ochsner Health System say while they are managing the current surge of COVID patients they are looking at contingency plans for the predicted increase. Chief Medical Officer Dr. Robert Hart said we have yet to see the highest hospitalization rates. “This is not even the Christmas spike yet. This is all the pre-Christmas holiday parties that we know were going on, so we still have Christmas and New Year’s ahead o...

NEW ORLEANS -- Ochsner Health, Louisianas largest health care provider, is experiencing a sustained jump in coronavirus patients since the holidays and is turning away out-of-state transfers, working to halt some elective surgeries and taking other steps to handle the surge, hospital officials said

Louisiana’s expansion of COVID-19 vaccine availability to people over 70 this week is pushing the state’s hospitals to look for ways to expand the number of shots they can administer each day.

Baton Rouge hospitals issue urgent warnings as third virus wave surges across state 2 months 2 weeks 1 day ago Wednesday, January 06 2021 Jan 6, 2021 January 06, 2021 7:10 PM January 06, 2021 in News Source: WBRZ Share: BATON ROUGE - Top hospitals in the Capital City are sounding off a grim warning about the rapid rise in COVID-19 cases. The warning comes on the heels of the recent holiday season. Ochsner Health officials say the spike in hospitalizations is only the beginning of a massive infl...

Baton Rouge hospitals issue urgent warnings as third virus wave surges across state 3 months 5 days 13 hours ago Wednesday, January 06 2021 Jan 6, 2021 January 06, 2021 7:10 PM January 06, 2021 in News Source: WBRZ Share: BATON ROUGE - Top hospitals in the Capital City are sounding off a grim warning about the rapid rise in COVID-19 cases. The warning comes on the heels of the recent holiday season. Ochsner Health officials say the spike in hospitalizations is only the beginning of a massive in...

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As a slow distribution of the coronavirus vaccine rolls out...

Year in Review: COVID-19, big changes headline Lafayettes business news for 2020 William Taylor Potter, Lafayette Daily Advertiser © SCOTT CLAUSE/USA TODAY Network Bryan MacDonald, Chief Executive Officer of SchoolMint, announcing relocation of the education software company to Lafayette, with Gov. John Bel Edwards to the left and Lafayette Mayor-President Josh Guillory on right. Monday, July 27, 2020. Lafayette and Acadianas business community had an up-and-down year for 202...

"What weve tried to do is prioritize our employees based on their risk factors," Baumgarten said. The health system created a tier system for employees to receive the vaccine. Those who work in COVID units or have contact with COVID patients will receive the vaccine first. Then others who work in the hospital and sometimes come in contact with COVID patients will be in the next tier. The last tier is those who dont work with COVID patients. After the initial shipment of vaccines, Ochsner will b...