To some people, October means fall. To others, it means football. Still others think festivals or pumpkin-spice everything. 

But when October rolls around here at St. Tammany Health System, we can’t help but to think pink.  

On Sept. 22, we kicked off our third annual St. Tammany United in Pink campaign, an awareness and fundraising push timed to coincide with Breast Cancer Awareness Month and designed to rally the community around Northshore cancer care. 

This is a moveable, monthlong celebration uniting a small army of community stakeholders to raise money for community screenings and raise awareness of the importance of early detection for both breast and lung cancer.  

Central to it all is our Be Well Bus, a 40-foot motorcoach outfitted with a variety of advanced screening equipment. You’ll see it throughout the parish over the next several weeks, attending more than a dozen local events. You’ll find events and locations here. 

There’s also the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office pink-wrapped police cruiser, which people can sign in return for a $5 donation. 

There’s the Covington Beer Garden, which will host a free Ladies Night Out event on Oct. 6 combining good health and good fun. 

The list goes on.  

We invite you to visit StTammanyUNITED.org to learn more about other upcoming events – and we’ll save a seat for you on board the Be Well Bus! 

Amedee Frederick knows all about the blues. They don’t call the Abita Springs musician “The Creole-Cajun Bluesman” for nothing. 

But on Friday (Sept. 22), Mr. Frederick was all smiles as he took the stage with his son’s band, the Pontchartrain Shakers, to celebrate Survivors Day at St. Tammany Cancer Center – A Campus of Ochsner Medical Center. 

That’s because, like so many others in attendance, he is himself a cancer survivor, having lived for more than four years with pancreatic cancer. 

Salmon Power Bowl  

The ingredients list for Chef Osman Rodas’ Salmon Power Bowl recipe looks ordinary enough: garlic, olive oil, ginger, spinach, things like that. But the recipe’s star ingredient is one most people probably aren’t quite as familiar with.

Residency program unveiled 

St. Tammany Health System and Ochsner Health have announced the establishment of a first-in-the-region family medicine residency program, set to welcome its inaugural resident class at a purpose-built clinic in north Covington on July 1, 2024.

New O.B. ED christened 

On Sept. 12, STHS cut the cord on its new Obstetric Emergency Department, a purpose-built space designed for expectant mothers experiencing the unexpected in their pregnancy journey.

Repeat! 

For the second consecutive year, STHS has been named one of New Orleans CityBusiness’ Best Places to Work, selected in the largest of the publication’s three sized-based categories.