Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome, together with the highest officers from the state and native healthcare group, pulled off the wrapping for her revamped HealthyBR.com web site, which now contains wholesome recipes and cooking demonstrations together with free video-streaming on-line health courses.
Broome on Thursday pitched the revamped web site because the city-parish’s “one-stop store” for any health-related information, questions and assets. Different facilities added within the makeover are a group useful resource listing geared towards psychological well being and substance abuse providers, and within the subsequent few months it is going to add assets for expectant mother and father and other people residing with HIV.
“Our companions have accomplished an incredible job at compiling data all in on place,” Broome informed reporters and medical professionals at Thursday’s press convention. “I had the chance to totally undergo the web site and was very happy with all of the content material being offered.”
The web site’s relaunch was introduced at the side of the discharge of the city-parish’s 2021 Joint Group Well being Wants Evaluation, a collaborative report required by the federal authorities for native hospitals and medical care suppliers to keep up their tax exempt standing.
Officers stated Thursday that Baton Rouge is likely one of the solely communities the place all of the non-profit hospitals produce a joint report and Group Well being Implementation Plan. Each might be discovered on-line by way of the HealthyBR web site as nicely.
“COVID-19 clearly demonstrated the necessity for this key strategic plan in addition to collaboration between our well being district members,” stated John Kirwan, govt director of the Pennington Biomedical Analysis Heart.
This 12 months’s CHNA spotlight 5 of the city-parish’s “important” well being wants: behavioral well being, wholesome residing, HIV/AIDS and different sexually transmitted ailments, maternal and psychological well being, and well being fairness and racial disparities.
And the well being implementation plan outlines how the parish’s medical group intends to handle these wants over the following three years — largely by way of work accomplished by coalition teams concentrating on the precise focus areas.
