Finally! It’s football season again!

The New Orleans Saints still have another week to go before they kick off their 2022 campaign against the rival Falcons, but our college football heroes – at LSU, at Tulane, at SLU, at ULL and all around the state – kick off the new season this Labor Day weekend, cloaked in big dreams, hope and promise.

We like big dreams, hope and promise around here at St. Tammany Health System. In many ways, they – along with our stated values of teamwork, trust, compassion, quality and innovation – are the gas that makes us go as an organization.

And on this weekend, there will be plenty of all three to go around. Every team is undefeated. Every team has a shot at the championship. Every team is king of the hill.

That’ll probably change for some on Monday morning, when reality sets in. But for now, hope floats, and we’re determined to enjoy the ride as long as it lasts.

We hope you enjoy it, too.

We also hope you enjoy this collection of recent stories from St. Tammany Health System.  

Go, team!

It started with a fish.

More accurately, it started with two little girls – the rosy-cheeked daughters of Covington artist Robert Post – and his desire to make them smile. 

And so, after years of specializing in hyper-realistic wildlife artwork, he decided to swim in a different direction and sketch out a whimsical and colorful cartoon fish. And then another. 

And another and another and another.

Flash-forward a couple of decades, give or take, and nine original undersea sculptures by Post – now employed by a certain animation house in Orlando, Florida (yes, that one) – have found a home at St. Tammany Health System’s Covington hospital, where since late August they’ve been greeting visitors and warming hearts as part of St. Tammany Hospital Foundation’s Healing Arts Initiative.

On the move

St. Tammany Health System’s Express Care afterhours walk-in clinic and its Parenting Center have both moved! Express Care is now located in our St. Tammany Physicians Network clinic in Covington, at 80 Gardenia Drive, Suite B; and the STHS Parenting Center is right around the corner from it, at 71338 Highway 21. Both are about a mile south of our flagship St. Tammany Parish Hospital. We look forward to serving your family at both!

Making a difference 

For the STHS care team, it’s a return of sorts to pre-COVID normalcy. But for patients at the health system’s flagship St. Tammany Parish Hospital, it’s nothing short of a blessing. It is “SIBR rounding,” an innovative practice recently re-implemented at the hospital.

Welcome to the family 

STHS is excited to welcome Dr. George Isa, a cardiology specialist with nearly three decades of experience in medicine who recently joined the care team at St. Tammany Health System’s cardiovascular care clinic, 1006 S. Harrison St. in Covington.

Money matters

In another sign of its success and financial health as an organization, Fitch Ratings has affirmed the ‘AA-’ long-term rating on the series 2018A and 21018B bonds issued by St. Tammany Health System, as well as the health system’s ‘AA-’ Issuer Default Rating.