10.30.07
The fifth-annual CityBusiness event, to be held December 14, honors 50 local companies divided into large and small businesses.
10.14.07
Two of the city's largest private hospitals have announced plans to open imaging centers directly across the street from each other.
10.1.07
Cutting-edge techniques are being offered at a unique Touro facility.
9.16.07
As the local labor shortage further strains a struggling economy, employers, schools and government are aiming to produce a better-trained worker pool.
9.13.07
Touro's Dr. Chris Lege explains the health risks associated with eating raw oysters and offers guidelines for when it's best to avoid them.
9.11.07
Touro CEO Les Hirsch moved to New Orleans ten days before Katrina struck and helped to lead the hospital through the crisis. In an interview with New Orleans Living, he talks about the "next chapter" for Touro and for New Orleans.
9.3.07
New moms at Touro's Family Birthing Center give new meaning to 'labor' day.
8.30.07
Katie Couric Visits Touro, CBS Evening News anchor, Katie Couric, visited Touro’s Emergency Department on Wednesday, August 22nd and interviewed Dr. Kevin Jordan about the state of healthcare in New Orleans and access to emergency services.
8.29.07
Vice President Medical Director Dr. Kevin Jordan discusses the mental health care crisis in New Orleans.
8.26.07
The failure of federally funded, state-administered recovery programs to quickly take hold, and the city's struggle to define and fund plans for neighborhood redevelopment, have shaken confidence about New Orleans' short-term future.
8.14.07
Touro offers a preparation plan for pregnant women and families with small children who need to take extra precautions to ensure their safety during an hurricane.
8.9.07
Following the near breakdown of Touro Infirmary’s generator system immediately after Hurricane Katrina, generators have since been replaced and could keep the hospital operational for about six days straight in the event of a power failure. Much of the $2.9 million cost was covered by FEMA.
8.05.07
Officials from five metro-area hospitals -- East Jefferson, West Jefferson Medical Center, Ochsner Health System, Touro Infirmary and Tulane University Hospital -- testified before a House subcommittee this week about the post-Katrina health care crisis. They spoke with a unified voice about what must be done to avert it, from easing regulations to increasing funding.
8.04.07
Touro President and CEO Les Hirsch joined Mayor Nagin and a number of leaders from the New Orleans health care community in Washington D.C. last week to testify before Congress on the healthcare crisis in the area. Hirsch spoke with Lee Zurik about his trip to Washington and the healthcare crisis.
Les Hirsch, president and chief executive of Touro, said there are some days when the Uptown area could use additional inpatient beds -- but the demand for emergency services is unrelenting.
8.03.07
Ten months after it bought the heavily damaged hospital from a competitor, Ochsner Health System has begun a major renovation to transform the former Memorial Medical Center on Napoleon Avenue into a combination of medical offices, a traditional hospital, an imaging center and a housing complex for the elderly.
8.2.07
Lawmakers at a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations hearing on Wednesday examined the state of the New Orleans health care system since Hurricane Katrina.
8.1.07
Touro President and CEO Les Hirsch and other leaders from the New Orleans health care community head to Washington D.C. to testify before Congress on the healthcare crisis in the area.
A financial report presented to the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations shows that five local hospitals including Touro Infirmary made a combined profit of $12 million during the first five months of 2005, but together lost $60 million during the same period in 2007.
Many of the city's current healthcare problems, according to officials, can be traced back to the day Charity Hospital was closed because of Katrina damage.
More than 50 physicians on
Touro's medical staff were named in the magazine's second post-Katrina list of top physicians practicing in 37 specialty areas in the New Orleans area.
7.31.07
Five New Orleans hospitals that have carried much of the city's medical burden since Charity Hospital was closed by Hurricane Katrina are hemorrhaging money, officials are prepared to testify at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
7.26.07
Crescent City Physicians Inc. (CCPI) continues to restore health to the city by offering a free Community Health Fair to New Orleans East residents.
Touro CEO Les Hirsch and Vice President Medical Director Dr. Kevin Jordan discuss the unprecedented number of patients being treated in New Orleans area emergency rooms.
7.23.07
Touro cardiologist Dr. Roberto Quintal, past president of the Orleans Parish Medical Society, is one of few physicians to favor a plan to build a teaching hospital in downtown New Orleans.
7.19.07
Recent efforts to increase New Orleans' small but significant Jewish population highlight the paradoxes of the city's Jewish culture. As Catherine C. Kahn, a Jewish historian and Touro's Archivist, explains: "All Jews in New Orleans grow up a little Catholic -- my family never served meat on a Friday night."
7.17.07
Touro sponsors a free basketball camp for boys and girls ages 7 to 14.
7.12.07
WLOX Channel 13: Touro Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Lance Estrada discusses the new Gulf South Joint Replacement Center.
6.1.07
5.24.07
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5.8.07
Bouquets & Brickbats: Touro's partnership with the New Orleans Public Library to promote literacy wins a "Best of the Week" bouquet from the
Gambit Weekly.
5.1.07
Special Delivery: "Choosing the right hospital for the birth of your baby can make all the difference,"
New Orleans Living Magazine
4.26.07
The New Orleans Public Library teams up with Touro Infirmary to share a love for books with babies.
4.25.07
4.23.07
Touro encourages its employees to participate in the American Heart Association's Walk at Work day.
4.18.07
4.11.07
WDSU Channel 6 : Mobile Medical Units
(10 PM Newscast)
4.9.07
Why Stay?: Touro cardiologist Dr. Gene Kukuy tells
New Orleans City Business why he's committed to New Orleans.
4.2.07
Touro's Director of Maternal Child Health Services Alicia Prevost on the continuing Post-Katrina Baby Boom.
3.23.07
Leslie Hirsch, President and CEO of Touro Infirmary, has been named as one of the initial ambassadors of the Fleur de Lis program, in which local leaders make regular visits to other major cities to spread good news about New Orleans.
3.9.07
For more than a week, hospitals in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish have run out of space to admit patients who are piling up in emergency rooms with respiratory ailments and other seasonal illnesses, exposing how fragile the region's health care infrastructure remains a year and a half after Hurricane Katrina.
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3.1.07
Kevin Jordan, chief of medical affairs for Touro Infirmary Hospital, says health care in New Orleans hasn't improved since Hurricane Katrina struck in late August 2005.
2.9.07
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