Northshore Healthbeat: That Thing Nobody Wants to Talk About
Northshore Healthbeat
It's the conversation that no one wants to have but that everybody should. It is Advance Care Planning, or putting your healthcare decisions in writing now, while you're still able to communicate them. In this show, St Tammany Health System Palliative Medicine Supervisor Emily Pupo helps understand how tackling this quick and easy chore now can spare you and your loved ones enormous heartache in the future.
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Northshore Healthbeat: Changing the Face of Healthcare for Patients with Autism
Northshore Healthbeat
In just four years the nonprofit St Tammany Health Foundation has led the way in its efforts to transform healthcare for patients on the Northshore with Autism. We sat down with foundation Executive Director Nicole Suhre and Board of Trustees member Sunny McDaniel to talk about their work in the autism arena, and why it is so profound for patients with autism and those who love them.
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Northshore Healthbeat: Rich Mauti on his Cancer Crusade
Northshore Healthbeat
Fans of the New Orleans Saints likely remember Rich Mauti from his playing days, but since hanging up his cleats, he has worked tirelessly to support local cancer causes - including a recent gift to St. Tammany Health System that is being called transformational when it comes to lung cancer. He joins us to talk about why the cause is so personal to him and what he hopes his advocacy work accomplishes.
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Northshore Healthbeat: Talking Colorectal Health
Northshore Healthbeat
March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, so we sit down with two experts on the matter- gastroenterologist Dr. Brandon Brousse and family medicine specialist Dr. Maria Roberts - about ways to take control of your gut health, as well as signs that it might be time to have a deeper conversation with your primary care physician.
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Northshore Healthbeat: Cancer is a Team Sport
Northshore Healthbeat
At St. Tammany Health System, we always have one goal in mind - You! Go deeper and meet four of our oncologists in Part One of Cancer is a Team Sport. Host: Amy Bouton; Director of Communication and Marketing; Executive Producer of Northshore Healthbeat Dr. Suma Reddy-Satti is a medical oncologist at Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is board certified in medical oncology. Dr. Brian Pettiford, MBA, MMM, FACS, is a surgical oncologist with a focus on thoracic surgery at Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Pettiford is certified by the American Board of Thoracic...
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Northshore Healthbeat: Called to Give
Northshore Healthbeat
Just three months after the founding of St Tammany Parish Hospital in 1954, the all-volunteer St Tammany Hospital Guild was created to help it in its healing mission. Now, 70 years later, we sit down with some of its current members to talk about the organization and why they choose to donate their time to it.
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Northshore Healthbeat: Let Us Begin
Northshore Healthbeat
Well, we did it. Together we have put a bow on 2024, but there's no time to rest. As busy as the past 12 months have been, the new year is shaping up to be just as busy at St. Tammany Health System as President and CEO Joan Coffman tells us in our first episode of 2025.
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Northshore Healthbeat: Congratulations You Have Diabetes! One Patient's Success Story
Northshore Healthbeat
It is the diagnosis nobody wants to hear, but the truth is that diabetes can be managed, if you know how! Amy and Mike talked to STPSO Deputy Mark Christman about his diabetes journey and how the STHS's Diabetes Education Department has help put him on track to continue living his best life.
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Northshore Healthbeat: Merry Mocktails!
Northshore Healthbeat
It's the holiday season, and you know what that means: parties, potent potables and packing on the pounds. But what about those health minded revelers hoping to curb the season's excesses? St Tammany Health System clinical dieticians Sarah Brignac and Jessica Greer join Mike and Tim to judge our first ever mocktail contest, featuring recipes submitted by our health system colleagues.
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Northshore Healthbeat: Christmas is Here (and so is our 2024 Toy Guide)
Northshore Healthbeat
We're talking about the holidays for a good reason. It is almost Thanksgiving, which means Black Friday, which means the holiday shopping season is officially in full swing. If you've got little ones on your list, you'll want to listen to this episode because our St Tammany Parenting Center and the parenting experts there have pulled together their annual toy gift guide, and we unveil it for you in this episode.
info_outlineIn this episode of Northshore Healthbeat Amy and Mike sit down with two women who have experienced the same thing from very different perspectives. Payten Figurino was an expectant mother who delivered her baby at STHS at 25 weeks due to preeclampsia. Dr. Adela Narcisse is an STHS OB Hospitalist who will discuss what preeclampsia is and how they treat it.