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Ochsner CHRISTUS Health Center will offer the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine on Friday, April 23, from 12 – 4 p.m., at Trinity Baptist Church. The church is located at 1800 Country Club Road.

During its recent Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (CMNH) grant event, CHRISTUS Foundation Shreveport-Bossier announced the award of nearly $400,000 to CHRISTUS Shreveport-Bossier Health System to provide support throughout its facilities for pediatric-focused care. Donations to CMNH programs locally made the grants possible.

CHRISTUS Good Shepherd Medical Center - Longview’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), the first NICU to open in the Northeast Texas region, has been officially re-accredited as a Level III NICU by the Texas Department of State Health Services. This three-year designation acts as official recognition of the facility's commitment to meeting the requirements of national and state standards for Level III neonatal ICUs.

CHRISTUS Health has immediately paused any administration of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine as we await further guidance. If it becomes necessary, we do have a number of other vaccinations (Moderna and Pfizer) that can be offered to those scheduled to get a Johnson & Johnson vaccine from a CHRISTUS provider. 

CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic (CTC)-Richmond Road I and CHRISTUS Trinity Clinic (CTC)-New Boston will host free COVID-19 Vaccination Clinics on Saturday, April 17, 2021, administering Moderna vaccine. Individuals 18 years of age and older are eligible to receive the Moderna vaccine.

CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi – South has earned a pair of designations from the Texas Department of State Health Services that affirm the facility’s quality care for high-risk mothers and pregnancies. The hospital has earned the Level IV Maternal Level of Care Designation and Level III Neonatal Level of Care Designation. CHRISTUS Spohn – South was previously designated as a Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).

As Open Enrollment begins, CHRISTUS Health Plan’s Generations Medicare Advantage plans in Northeast Texas allow residents of Smith, Cherokee, Wood, Franklin, Gregg, Harrison, Hopkins, Marion, Morris, Panola, Titus, Camp and Upshur counties seeking a Medicare Advantage Plan to obtain in-network care from the distinguished providers and hospitals of CHRISTUS Health.

 CHRISTUS Health announced today it is now offering a new screening tool to some patients, as well as doctors, nurses and other CHRISTUS Associates on the frontlines to learn who has been infected with COVID-19—AND—who  might now carry protective antibodies.

CHRISTUS Health and AdventHealth have agreed on the terms of a binding definitive agreement under which Central Texas Medical Center (CTMC) in San Marcos, Texas, along with its subsidiaries, will become part of the CHRISTUS Health system. The transaction is expected to be complete in the spring of 2020.

Lake Area Medical Center announced today it will soon become affiliated with CHRISTUS Health through an acquisition agreement that includes the sale of the hospital and its associated assets. CHRISTUS Health also operates CHRISTUS St. Patrick Health System in Lake Charles.