Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport And Oceans Healthcare Open New Behavioral Health Facility
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SHREVEPORT, La., Jan. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport and Oceans Healthcare today announced the opening of Louisiana Behavioral Health. The facility, located at 9320 Linwood Avenue in Shreveport, expands access to behavioral health care in the community and will execute a phased opening, accepting patients beginning January 20. It will provide inpatient care for patients 18 and older immediately, adding geriatric services for patients 55 and older by March and an intensive outpatient program by the end of 2021.
Louisiana ranks in the top five states in the nation with the highest percentage of adults reporting symptoms of anxiety or depression. It ranks second among states with the highest percentage of adults with a serious mental illness who did not receive treatment in the past year. Louisiana Behavioral Hea
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HEALTHCARE workers, who represent 2% to 3% of the world’s population (World Health Organisation figures for 2020), are undoubtedly on the front lines in battling the ravages of the Covid-19 pandemic. Their sacrifices have ensured that patients’ safety is top priority as they endeavour to reduce suffering and save lives.
However, being on the front lines of this battle has made them the group that is most vulnerable to infection. The WHO reports that about 14% of Covid-19 cases in 2020 were among healthcare workers. In some countries, the proportion was as high as 35%. In Malaysia, 2% of infected cases were healthcare workers, while in the United States, the figure has spiralled to nearly 570,000 and more than 3,000 have succumbed to the virus.
Catherine O Neal, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine s branch campus in Baton Rouge, is a co-author of a paper reporting that shortening the length of quarantine due to COVID exposure when supported by mid-quarantine testing may increase compliance among college athletes without increasing risk.
Justine Musiime, Senior Physiotherapist highlights the important and varied roles available within the health service as NHS England re-launches the âWe are the NHSâ campaign
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Recruitment for the NHS has never been more vital. The professionalism and dedication staff have shown throughout the pandemic has generated unprecedented interest in joining the NHS while the demands of contending with coronavirus while keeping other services running means recruitment has never been more crucial. âWe are the NHSâ shines a light on some of the most in-demand roles in the NHS; all varied, exciting and challenging in equal measures.
Nearly 7,000 people in the north east Essex and Suffolk have survived Covid-19 but the number of people who might have long covid is unknown. A virtual clinic has now been created by the Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System to help treat the patients.
Picture: PA If a patient’s condition has not improved within 12 weeks their GP can refer them to the Long Covid Assessment Service. Treatment will include physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, dietetics, mental health services and social prescribing, with further hospital treatment if necessary. Sarah Fowler, senior respiratory physiotherapist for East Suffolk and North Essex Trust, said: “While the package of care for patients with long Covid has now been formalised, we have been treating patients suffering with the longer-term effects of Covid-19 since the summer.