Northshore Healthbeat: That Thing Nobody Wants to Talk About
Release Date: 04/16/2025
Northshore Healthbeat: Talking Shop with Santa's Elves
Northshore Healthbeat
It's beginming to look a lot like Christmas, and to help you find the perfect gift for that special child in your life, we sit down with the experts from the St Tammany Parenting Center to talk about what to look for when shopping for toys - including some of their favorite picks of the year.
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Northshore Healthbeat: Staying Golden - Planning for an age-old, old-age conundrum
Northshore Healthbeat
As Baby Boomers continue to enter their golden years at record pace, many of their Gen-X children are struggling with a new, unexpected caregiver role thrust upon them. It doesn't have to be a surprise though. To talk about ways parents, and their adult children, can plan for the future - and gain some peace of mind in the process - we visit with St Tammany Health System Assistant Vice President of Care Coordination Paula Day and Director of Care Coordination Monique Brewster, who share tips and strategies for making sure those golden years don't lose their luster.
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Northshore Healthbeat: Putting lung cancer in the crosshairs
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November isn’t just for Thanksgiving anymore. It’s also Lung Cancer Awareness Month. To mark the occasion, we sit down with Caroline Blanchard, a lung cancer patient and changemaker working to educate others who may be genetically predisposed to a lung cancer diagnosis; and Caitlin Hunter from Chevron, who joins us to talk about why Chevron remains committed to joining St. Tammany Health System in education, screening and prevention.
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Northshore Healthbeat: The Power of Pink - and of community
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"It takes a village," the old proverb tells us - and St. Tammany Health Foundation is once more putting that concept to the test this October with its monthlong Power of Pink breast cancer awareness campaign, an annual observance built around broad community support. To learn more, in this episode we visit with the foundation's Kathleen Thomas as well as Dilly & Sons Bagelry co-owner Dana Tune – whose business is conducting a monthlong give-back campaign in support of cancer care – about the power of community, the power of early detection, and, of course, the Power of...
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Northshore Healthbeat: Many joys - 60,000 newborns and counting
Northshore Healthbeat
On Dec. 2, 1954, St. Tammany Health System’s flagship St. Tammany Parish Hospital welcomed its first baby into the world. Now, 70 years later, more than 60,000 babies have joined that first one, and St. Tammany Parish Hospital has become the premiere destination for maternity care on the Northshore. But what does that mean, exactly?
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Northshore Healthbeat: Storm's a-brewin'
Northshore Healthbeat
How prepared are you and your loved ones to weather the next major hurricane from a health standpoint? Twenty years ago Hurricane Katrina changed the game, and so much more, from a healthcare perspective. Now Amy and Mike get some pro tips from St Tammany Health System Vice President Mike Hill and Braswell's Pharmacy Sondra Ard.
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Northshore Healthbeat: Summertime Safety
Northshore Healthbeat
When the weather gets hot, and the days get long, the Emergency Department at St Tammany Health System gets busy, busy, busy. To mark the season, we welcome St Tammany Health System trauma experts Joe St. Phillip and Bethany Monistere to our (mercifully air-conditioned) podcast studio to discuss what to do when the summer break goes sideways.
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Northshore Healthbeat: Feeling the Heat
Northshore Healthbeat
During the heat of the summer Mike Scott sits down with Dr Merrill Laurent, a long time local primary care physician. The two discuss the dangers of high temperatures - and the importance of staying cool when it gets hot outside - as well as series of other frequently asked questions.
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Northshore Healthbeat: Heart of a Tiger
Northshore Healthbeat
On the morning after Thanksgiving 2022, Covington attorney Jeff Schoen underwent an emergency heart procedure at St. Tammany Health System's flagship St. Tammany Parish Hospital. It saved his life. It also changed it in ways he never imagined. In this episode of "Northshore Healthbeat", which arrives during Men's Health Month, Mr Schoen sits down with Mike Scott and Bridget Lobello to talk about his journey - and to offer some sage advice to others like him.
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Northshore Healthbeat: In the Pink; One Patient's Breast Cancer Journey
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Like most women, Erin Stover wasn't thrilled about the idea of getting her annual mammogram. She did it anyway, though - and it may have saved her life. Now, in addition to being a breast cancer survivor, she's also a breast cancer advocate, helping educate others about the life-saving value of regular health screenings. In this episode Mike and Bridget sit down with Erin to learn her story, as well as with Dr. Christopher Porter, MD, a surgical oncologist with St. Tammany Health System's High Risk Breast Disease Clinic, to discuss the finer points of breast health.
info_outlineIt'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.