RSV kills thousands of adults and hundreds of infants each year in the United States, and until this fall, there was no vaccine. Now there is, but it’s unclear how many patients are willing to accept the potentially life-saving measure.
Between peak season for respiratory illnesses, domestic disputes and too much food and alcohol, the holidays are a strength test for emergency rooms.
Local law enforcement agencies say they’re ill-equipped to handle mental health calls. So they’re trying a new approach.
Lafayette’s Parish Council will vote on raises for public nurses Tuesday while the City Council will vote on $3M to settle an expropriation lawsuit.
Currently, 12.5% of all emergency room visits are due to respiratory viruses in Louisiana. Flu accounts for 8%, with respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, COVID, adenovirus and rhinovirus making up most of the rest. The national rate for ER visits is about half that, at 4% for influenza-like illnesses, according to the Louisiana Department of Health.
Source: The Advocage
Health issues pose one of the most significant barriers to church participation among older adults.
A handful of nurses at the parish’s Public Health Unit are in line for raises of around $13,750 on average, depending on the Parish Council’s support.
Local governments scored a major legal victory against the producers and distributors of opioid painkillers. But the money is yet to be spent to prevent addiction and death.
Farmers across the state have struggled through the intense summer heat and drought, leaving farm stands barren and causing financial losses that are difficult to recoup.
Lafayette Parish government scrapped plans to increase the public health unit’s tax rate, complicating the service’s efforts to fill nursing vacancies.
A pair of local businessmen, hoping to turn a former public school into a mental health clinic, hit a wall of public resistance, putting the project in a tenuous position.
Three million dollars to fund a substance abuse treatment clinic in Lafayette showed up in the state budget in 2022 — now the money is gone.
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