January 16, 2021
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The LSMS is thrilled to celebrate 143 years! Thank you to our members for the support and for their dedication to the practice of medicine.
In 1878, a time that saw a renaissance in Louisiana with the birth of a new state constitution, 80 physicians representing 15 parishes gathered in New Orleans on January 14-16 and formed the Louisiana State Medical Association. The name would later be changed to the Louisiana State Medical Society (LSMS). Since its inception in 1878, the LSMS has worked for a singular purpose: to advance healthcare in the state of Louisiana.
Children's Clinic of Southwest Louisiana
Children's Clinic of Southwest Louisiana has been providing quality care to infants, children, and adolescents for over 50 years. Services provided include the acute care center, after-hours medical service, children's pharmacy, counseling, laboratory and x-rays, neonatal care, pediatric allergy and asthma, pediatric critical care, telephone advice, and weekend hours.
For more information about group memberships, membership renewals, or general questions regarding the benefits of a membership with LSMS, please contact Terri Watson, Sr. Director, Administration & Member Services.
The LSMS is gathering information for the March 2021 COVID-19 special edition issue of the Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society! This is a special call for members to contribute personal stories, photos, and other information relating to COVID-19 that could be featured in the Journal. Please email Communications Associate, Gina Garner, for more information.
Call for LSMS Foundation Board Members
The Louisiana State Medical Society Foundation has openings for volunteer board members. The Foundation was established by the LSMS for the purpose of funding educational endeavors, medical student scholarships and other activities to enhance the educational opportunities for physicians and medical students in Louisiana.
Members of the LSMS Foundation Board are responsible for reviewing P.H. Jones, MD Scholarship applications, as well as developing and approving other activities funded by the Foundation.
Members serve terms of 3 years or until their successors are selected.
If interested, please contact LSMS Manager of Operations & Special Projects, Sarah Edwards.
LSMS Career Center
Is your practice seeking a new physician partner or are you searching for a new role? Let the LSMS Career Center assist you. Our career site also provides members with career coaching, resume writing and an online learning center. Click here to learn more about this member benefit.
Have You Gotten the COVID-19 Vaccine?
Please send all photos and a few sentences detailing your vaccine experience to LSMS Communications Associate, Gina Garner, at ggarner@lsms.org. Your photo or story could be featured on LSMS social media or in the upcoming issue of the Journal of the Louisiana State Medical Society.
HealthSYNC News
CMMI is expected to release fewer, but bigger payment models and more that are mandatory. These mandatory payment models are also likely to require HIE usage. Learn more about HealthSYNC and how it can help the transition to value based care.
Upcoming webinars:
Wednesday, 1/20 @ 11:30am
Wednesday, 1/27 @ 11:30am
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Project ECHO: Bridging the Telehealth Gap to Improve Access and Quality of Care in Louisiana and Mississippi
The Louisiana and Mississippi Chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics are recruiting 10 practices in each state to join a 6 -session ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) collaborative to improve access to quality healthcare for children through the use of telehealth. Practices will engage in the ECHO model TM, a telementoring platform that leverages video conference technology to connect experts with primary care teams in local communities. For more information and/or to apply please contact Ashley Politz at ashley.politz@laaap.org or (225) 505-7611.
Louisiana Sees Another Drop in Health Insurance through Marketplace
Louisiana saw its fifth annual drop in health insurance enrollment through the individual marketplace set up through President Barack Obama's federal health overhaul law.
The Advocate reports that enrollment in the Affordable Care Act's individual market fell to 83,159 this year, down from 87,748 policyholders last year. The program offers income-based, taxpayer-subsidized private health insurance plans for people who aren't covered on the job.
At its peak enrollment in 2016, there were 214,148 policyholders in Louisiana. But it's fallen each year since then.
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Azar, Trump Administration Will No Longer Hold Back 2nd Shots, Recommend 65 and Older Get COVID Vaccine
The Trump administration will start releasing more doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines to states immediately instead of holding back the second dose, as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said states should expand vaccinations to everyone age 65 and older, in an effort to get the vaccine to more people immediately.
Can Healthcare Employers Require Employees to Receive the COVID-19 Vaccine?
With COVID-19 vaccines finally receiving government approval and beginning to be distributed across the country, many healthcare employers are wondering whether they can require their employees to receive the vaccine to protect the health and safety of other employees and patients who are on the premises. Additionally, healthcare employers may wonder whether they can bar an employee from the premises or even terminate an employee if the person has a legitimate reason for not taking the COVID-19 vaccine.
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COVID-19: What Do We Know About the New Coronavirus Variant?
Recently, global media has been abuzz with news and speculation about a new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19.
The variant, which researchers first identified in the U.K., is called B.1.1.7, though as scientists began to express concern about it, initial U.K. government documents dubbed it VUI - 202012/01, standing for "the first variant under investigation in December 2020."
Later government documents from December designated it as a "variant of concern," and referred to it as VOC 202012/01.
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