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Lafayette – The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Office of Public Health has scheduled a regional training exercise to help the parishes in the Acadiana region of the state prepare to respond for a future influenza outbreak. These parishes include Acadia, Evangeline, Iberia, Lafayette, St. Landry, St. Martin, and Vermillion.
Baton Rouge – As part of the state’s initiative to prepare for an influenza pandemic, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Office of Public Health has scheduled a training exercise to help the parishes in Baton Rouge and surrounding areas prepare to respond for a future influenza pandemic. These parishes include Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East Feliciana, Iberville, Pointe Coupee, West Baton Rouge and West Feliciana.
The Department of Health and Hospitals today announced a new plan to help ensure more children in Louisiana are properly immunized.
Registration is now open for the Lighten Up Louisiana statewide competition for 2007. The overwhelmingly successful program encourages Louisiana citizens to get healthy by focusing on making better food choices and increasing physical activity. This time around, both the adult and kids’ versions will run at the same time. In addition, individuals as well as teams can now join the competition.
Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco and the Department of Health and Hospitals today announced the latest round of payments that are set to go out to hospitals that cared for uninsured patients last year.
The Department of Health and Hospitals’ Bureau of Primary Care and Rural Health will host a conference to address strategies to better deal with chronic health conditions.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Office of Public Health has scheduled a regional training exercise to help the parishes in its Region III area of the state prepare to respond for a future influenza outbreak. These parishes include Assumption, Lafourche, St. Charles, St. James, St. John, St. Mary, and Terrebonne.
For a two-week period beginning March 1, 2007, Louisiana oyster harvesters can be permitted to move live oysters from the public oyster seed grounds located southwest of Point Au Fer and the South Point area.
The Cameron Parish Health Unit will be offering the second round of immunizations for adult hepatitis A and hepatitis B.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Office of Public Health has scheduled a regional training exercise to help the parishes in the DHH Region IX community prepare to respond for a future influenza outbreak. These parishes include Livingston, St. Helena, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa, and Washington.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals Office of Public Health has scheduled a regional training exercise to help the parishes in the DHH Region VIII community prepare to respond for a future influenza outbreak. These parishes include Caldwell, East and West Carroll, Franklin, Jackson, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Ouachita, Richland, Tensas and Union.
On January 17, 2007 at 10:00 am Lighten Up Louisiana will be kicking off its second fitness competition at Louisiana’s Office of Group Benefits at Bon Carre, 7389 Florida Blvd., Suite 400.