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A Berkeley, California man died last December after paramedics were delayed nearly an hour because of an unruly protest against police brutality, recently released records show. Berkleyside, a self-described “independent news site” serving the Berkeley area, reports that the 62-year-old Alvin Henry Jones Jr. would have normally received treatment in minutes. However, due to a nearby #BlackLivesMatters protest, paramedics were instead ordered to go to a local fire station and await a police escort before attempting to rescue Jones. It took 52 minutes to get Jones to a hospital, after which he died two days later. Paperwork filed by the...

The LSU Health Care Services is considering buying St. Charles general hospital and leasing Elmwood Hospital to provide some of the services previously available at Charity and University hospitals. The idea would be to use St. Charles General as an acute care hospital and using Elmwood as a level-1 trauma center. The move is being considered at a time when the state's public health care system is in financial trouble. Without Charity and University hospitals, doctors who work with the LSU Health Sciences Center are coming up short on patients and payroll. “In Baton Rouge our patient population has doubled...