Northshore Healthbeat

Northshore Healthbeat

Northshore Healthbeat is the heart and soul for wellness in St Tammany. A place for healthy conversations with many trusted experts from throughout St Tammany Health System on the topics that matter most to you, your family and our community.

Episodes

November 4, 2025 34 mins

November isn't just for Thanksgiving anymore. It's also Lung Cancer Awareness Month. To mark the occasion, we sit down with Caroline Blanchard, a lung cancer patient and changemaker working to educate others who may be genetically predisposed to a lung cancer diagnosis; and Caitlin Hunter from Chevron, who joins us to talk about why Chevron remains committed to joining St. Tammany Health System in education, sc...

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"It takes a village," the old proverb tells us - and St. Tammany Health Foundation is once more putting that concept to the test this October with its monthlong Power of Pink breast cancer awareness campaign, an annual observance built around broad community support. 

To learn more, in this episode we visit with the foundation's Kathleen Thomas as well as Dilly & Sons Bagelry co-owner Dana Tune – whose business...

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On Dec. 2, 1954, St. Tammany Health System's flagship St. Tammany Parish Hospital welcomed its first baby into the world. Now, 70 years later, more than 60,000 babies have joined that first one, and St. Tammany Parish Hospital has become the premiere destination for maternity care on the Northshore. But what does that mean, exactly?

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September 9, 2025 32 mins

How prepared are you and your loved ones to weather the next major hurricane from a health standpoint? Twenty years ago Hurricane Katrina changed the game, and so much more, from a healthcare perspective. Now Amy and Mike get some pro tips from St Tammany Health System Vice President Mike Hill and Braswell's Pharmacy Sondra Ard. 

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August 25, 2025 36 mins

When the weather gets hot, and the days get long, the Emergency Department at St Tammany Health System gets busy, busy, busy. To mark the season, we welcome St Tammany Health System trauma experts Joe St. Phillip and Bethany Monistere to our (mercifully air-conditioned) podcast studio to discuss what to do when the summer break goes sideways.  

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August 7, 2025 35 mins

During the heat of the summer Mike Scott sits down with Dr Merrill Laurent, a long time local primary care physician. The two discuss the dangers of high temperatures - and the importance of staying cool when it gets hot outside - as well as series of other frequently asked questions.  

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On the morning after Thanksgiving 2022, Covington attorney Jeff Schoen underwent an emergency heart procedure at St. Tammany Health System's flagship St. Tammany Parish Hospital. It saved his life. It also changed it in ways he never imagined. In this episode of "Northshore Healthbeat", which arrives during Men's Health Month, Mr Schoen sits down with Mike Scott and Bridget Lobello to talk about his journey - and to offer some sage...

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Like most women, Erin Stover wasn't thrilled about the idea of getting her annual mammogram. She did it anyway, though - and it may have saved her life. Now, in addition to being a breast cancer survivor, she's also a breast cancer advocate, helping educate others about the life-saving value of regular health screenings. In this episode Mike and Bridget sit down with Erin to learn her story, as well as with Dr. Christopher Porter, ...

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In this episode Amy Bouton, Director of Communication and Marketing for St. Tammany Health System and Bridget Lobello, Director of Business Development, talk to the long-tenured surgery team at the newly opened St. Tammany Health System Surgery Center —the most advanced center of its kind in the Gulf South Region. Amy Wade, BSN, RN Director, STHS Surgery Center, Pre-Op/PACU/Extended Recovery Unit and Brian Gris...

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The Family Medicine Formula: St Tammany Health System/Ochsner Family Medicine Residency Program. 

 

In this episode Dr Lisa Casey and first year resident, Dr. Meghan Castillo, share the successes and goals of the St Tammany Health System/Ochsner Family Medicine residency program at the St Tammany Physicians Network North Covington Clinic. 

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It's the conversation that no one wants to have but that everybody should. It is Advance Care Planning, or putting your healthcare decisions in writing now, while you're still able to communicate them. In this show, St Tammany Health System Palliative Medicine Supervisor Emily Pupo helps understand how tackling this quick and easy chore now can spare you and your loved ones enormous heartache in the future.  

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In just four years the nonprofit St Tammany Health Foundation has led the way in its efforts to transform healthcare for patients on the Northshore with Autism. We sat down with foundation Executive Director Nicole Suhre and Board of Trustees member Sunny McDaniel to talk about their work in the autism arena, and why it is so profound for patients with autism and those who love them. 

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Fans of the New Orleans Saints likely remember Rich Mauti from his playing days, but since hanging up his cleats, he has worked tirelessly to support local cancer causes - including a recent gift to St. Tammany Health System that is being called transformational when it comes to lung cancer. He joins us to talk about why the cause is so personal to him and what he hopes his advocacy work accomplishes.  

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March is Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month, so we sit down with two experts on the matter- gastroenterologist Dr. Brandon Brousse and family medicine specialist Dr. Maria Roberts - about ways to take control of your gut health, as well as signs that it might be time to have a deeper conversation with your primary care physician. 

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At St. Tammany Health System, we always have one goal in mind - You! Go deeper and meet four of our oncologists in Part One of Cancer is a Team Sport. 

Host: Amy Bouton; Director of Communication and Marketing; Executive Producer of Northshore Healthbeat

Dr. Suma Reddy-Satti is a medical oncologist at Ochsner MD Anderson Cancer Center. She is board certified in medical oncology. Dr. Brian Pettiford, MBA, MMM, FACS, is a surgical on...

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January 29, 2025 31 mins

Just three months after the founding of St Tammany Parish Hospital in 1954, the all-volunteer St Tammany Hospital Guild was created to help it in its healing mission. Now, 70 years later, we sit down with some of its current members to talk about the organization and why they choose to donate their time to it. 

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January 14, 2025 31 mins

Well, we did it. Together we have put a bow on 2024, but there's no time to rest. As busy as the past 12 months have been, the new year is shaping up to be just as busy at St. Tammany Health System as President and CEO Joan Coffman tells us in our first episode of 2025. 

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It is the diagnosis nobody wants to hear, but the truth is that diabetes can be managed, if you know how! Amy and Mike talked to STPSO Deputy Mark Christman about his diabetes journey and how the STHS's Diabetes Education Department has help put him on track to continue living his best life. 

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December 12, 2024 25 mins

It's the holiday season, and you know what that means: parties, potent potables and packing on the pounds. But what about those health minded revelers hoping to curb the season's excesses? St Tammany Health System clinical dieticians Sarah Brignac and Jessica Greer join Mike and Tim to judge our first ever mocktail contest, featuring recipes submitted by our health system colleagues. 

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We're talking about the holidays for a good reason. It is almost Thanksgiving, which means Black Friday, which means the holiday shopping season is officially in full swing. If you've got little ones on your list, you'll want to listen to this episode because our St Tammany Parenting Center and the parenting experts there have pulled together their annual toy gift guide, and we unveil it for you in this episode. 

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