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Leaders and coalition members met Thursday at Sand Bar in downtown Shreveport to discuss the ongoing issue of the smoking ban.
Smoke-Free Louisiana as well as the Region 7 Louisiana Healthy Communities Coalition worked as a joint effort to host the news conference.
The smoking ban hit the Shreveport City Council last summer and was placed on the agenda as Ordinance No. 50 and was named the Smoke Free Air Act. This ordinance was passed in June of 2020 and banned smoking in bars, casinos, and gaming facilities.
This ordinance was supposed to take effect on Aug. 8, 2020. However, Shreveport City Councilman Jerry Bowman introduced legislation requesting the ban for casinos and gaming facilities to go into effect on Aug. 1, 2021.
Ochsner LSU Health opening community health centers across north La. to address needs of underserved communities Rendering of one of the Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport community health centers scheduled to open in 2022. (Source: Ochsner LSU Health) By Rachael Thomas | April 19, 2021 at 1:46 PM CDT - Updated April 19 at 2:39 PM
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - Ochsner LSU Health has announced its plans for four new community health centers across north Louisiana. They will be opened by the end of 2022 and aim to address the health needs of underserved communities.
It’s all part of Ochsner’s 10-year vision for a healthy state. This initiative was announced in November of 2020 and includes an initial investment of $100 million over the next five years. The project aims to remove barriers to healthcare, bring resources to underserved communities, work with partners to research health disparities, use technology to improve patient outcomes and invest in the state’s next generation
SHREVEPORT, La. â Ochsner LSU Health announced plans for four new Community Health Centers across North Louisiana that will open by the end of 2022. The Community Health Centers are designed to address health needs in underserved communities as part of Ochsner Healthâs 10-year vision for a healthy state.
âOchsner LSU Health is quickly and continuously expanding accessible, affordable, convenient and effective health care across North Louisiana,â said Chuck Daigle, the CEO of Ochsner LSU Health. âThese new Community Health Centers mark another significant milestone in that progress, meeting people where they are with services for their unique needs.â
Ochsner LSU Health will make an initial investment of $15 million in the Community Health Centers. The locations and services of the centers are determined based on the areaâs highest needs. Three will be located in Shreveport and one will open in Monroe on Louisville Ave.
These days, the term unprecedented ’ seems to have lost all meaning given a year of so many extraordinary, devastating occurrences.
Sadly, more than 9,800 Louisianans have died from COVID-19, and that figure is certain to rise. While the tragedy of each loss is immeasurable, our situation could have been much worse.
When the first case of COVID-19 was reported in Louisiana a year ago, it had not been 18 months since Ochsner Health and LSU joined forces to improve healthcare in north Louisiana. We did not know then the massive challenge we would soon be up against. With unrelenting determination and compassion, healthcare heroes across our city, state and nation rose to the occasion. And together we have come so far.
Gov. John Bel Edwards stresses water restoration in visit to Shreveport Scott Ferrell, Shreveport Times
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Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, who said Shreveport bore the brunt of this week s winter storms in the state, met with local leaders on Saturday to discuss the storm and its aftermath.
Edwards met with Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins, Bossier City Mayor Lo Walker, Caddo Parish Sheriff Steve Prator, Ocshner LSU Health CEO Chuck Daigle, CHRISTUS Shreveport-Bossier CEO Dr. Steen Trawick, Willis-Knighton CAO Brian Crawford, legislators and other local leaders. I can tell you there was a lot of agreement in that room about what the biggest challenge and the biggest need is, Edwards said. It all revolves around water and accessing it immediately for dialysis patients and healthcare, but also increasingly for bottled water for people at home.