Louisiana Healthcare group offer tips to prepare for hurricane season

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — Louisiana Healthcare Connection needs to remind residents of the significance of being ready for hurricane season.

Louisiana Healthcare Connections CEO and Plan President Jamie Schlottman says, “At Louisiana Healthcare Connections, we take extreme climate very severely. Within the occasion of impending extreme occasions, we attain out to members with particular healthcare wants to assist them put together them in case they’re affected, ensuring they’ve medical tools, prescriptions, entry to physicians, or different well being wants.”

Some suggestions for medical wants can embrace:

• Have not less than a seven day provide of any drugs you might want, in addition to backup medical objects akin to listening to aids, glasses, contacts
• Hold copies of your medical information in a safe place. This could embrace medicine lists, medical health insurance info, contact info of healthcare supplier. This record ought to be taken with you if you could evacuate.
• Should you depend on a medical system requiring electrical energy, contact your native energy firm and ensure you have a option to cost your system ought to the facility go off.
• When you have particular well being wants, contact your healthcare supplier about what to do in case of emergency.

Louisiana Healthcare Connections members who need assistance earlier than a storm ought to name 1-866-595-8133 (TTY: 711).

For extra info, go to right here. Get extra tips about emergency kits, evacuation planning, and different details about hurricane preparedness, go to getagameplan.org.