WWNO - New Orleans Public Radio | By Greg LaRose (Louisiana Illuminator)
After the Trump administration's Medicaid cuts led its two Louisiana clinics to close last fall, Planned Parenthood intends to open a clinic in New Orleans later this year and will expand telehealth services in the state starting later this summer.
The Planned Parenthood Great Plains network will announce Wednesday it's adding Louisiana to its coverage area that already includes Arkansas, Kansas, western Missouri and Oklahoma.
According to Emily Wales, Planned Parenthood Great Plains president and CEO, Louisiana patients have traveled to some of its 13 existing clinics for care and services that she said are increasingly difficult to find back home.
"When we took a hard look at the patients who had been coming to Planned Parenthood [in Louisiana] and the lack of resources for those patients trying to find other providers, we knew that there was a gap we could fill," Wales said in an interview.
Services that Planned Parenthood intends to provide from the New Orleans clinic include contraception, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, gender-affirming care, pregnancy testing,...
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