July 21, 2016

Children’s Hospital has opened its newest outpatient facility on the Northshore of Lake Pontchartrain. Children’s Hospital Northshore Center, located in the heart of Covington, offers twelve pediatric specialties and appointments with the same world-class physicians as Children’s Hospital’s main campus.

July 21, 2016

Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced that the City of New Orleans has received a $700,000 grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to continue support community health and wellness. This grant will specifically fund a partnership between the City of New Orleans Health Department’s FIT NOLA initiative, the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission (NORDC), the New Orleans Recreation Development Foundation, Market Umbrella, Louisiana Public Health Institute and community wellness programs through 2018.

July 21, 2016

James E. Cathey, Jr. announced that he would be transitioning to a new role with North Oaks effective December 31, 2016, and the North Oaks Board of Commissioners named Michele Kidd Sutton, FACHE, as the successor.

July 21, 2016

Dr. Steve Nelson, Dean of the LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has appointed internationally recognized orthopaedic surgeon Robert Zura, MD the Robert D’Ambrosia Professor and Head of the Department of Orthopaedics.

July 21, 2016

Dr. Raju Thomas, MD, a renowned physician and chair of the Tulane Health System Department of Urology has received two accolades from the American Urological Association (AUA) for his substantive contributions to research, education and patient care.