Rosemary Westwood
Public Health ReporterRosemary Westwood is the public reporter for WWNO/WRKF. She was previously a freelance writer specializing in gender and reproductive rights, a radio producer, columnist, magazine writer and podcast host.
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Louisiana’s abortion clinics are struggling to keep up with an influx of patients across the state border, after Texas enacted a six-week abortion ban. Louisiana lawmakers could consider passing a similar law.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has announced it will hear arguments in December in a case that could see the court overturn or functionally gut Roe v. Wade — the Supreme Court precedent that established constitutional abortion rights — and simultaneously let a restrictive abortion ban take effect in Louisiana.
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City officials are now promising new regulations for independent living centers to fill in what they say is a gap that left hundreds in the sweltering heat and darkness.
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Several nursing homes across Louisiana are losing their licenses and senior living facilities in New Orleans are being shuttered because of deaths and unsafe or substandard living conditions during and after Hurricane Ida.
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Across a coastline battered and torn by Hurricane Ida, a new threat is emerging: the risks that come with trying to survive the recovery. Most of the region was under a heat advisory Wednesday with little indication temperatures would dip meaningfully in the coming days.
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One person has died of injuries sustained after a tree fell on a resident in Prairieville, Louisiana, marking the first death from the catastrophic Hurricane Ida.
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St. Anne Hospital in Raceland and Chabert Medical Center in Houma will need to move collectively around sixty patients. Meanwhile, the emergency rooms will remain open.
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Many hospitals in Louisiana and across the Gulf South, strained by treating thousands of COVID-19 patients, are discharging as many patients as possible, diverting those in critical care to safer areas, and reducing staff ahead of Hurricane Ida’s landfall Sunday night.
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Ahead of Tropical Storm Ida's arrival to southeast Louisiana as a strong Category 3 Hurricane either Sunday or Monday, residents were preparing for what's to come and officials were closing public spaces.
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Louisiana's Gov. John Bel Edwards said the child who died from COVID was under the age of 1.