Summer 2013 - Our Lady of the Lake Children`s Hospital

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Passport to
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Transport
Celebrates
One Year
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Travel Tips to Keep
Your Family Healthy
Ticket to Ride
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Long Journey Traveled
Memory Book
a prayer for peace
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Welcome to
Believeng
Where Little Things Mean Everythi
Welcome to the summer issue of Wee
Believe magazine, a publication designed to
keep you informed about little stories and
big developments at Our Lady of the Lake
Children’s Hospital.
Summer is a time for travel. School’s out and
families are hitting the road for long anticipated
vacations from school and work.
There are also times when children and families
have to travel unexpectedly. Here you will read
about families who traveled from across the state
to a children’s hospital they never thought they
would need. They found their ‘passport’ here by
utilizing our pediatric transport team which is
celebrating one year of operation. It exists to help
critically ill or injured children access medical care
they need quickly that is not available in their
own communities. They can find that care here at
OLOL Children’s Hospital, served up with love and
compassion evident to all who visit.
In addition, you’ll find an article on keeping your
family healthy while traveling with expert advice
from our pediatric infectious disease specialist.
You can read about the winners of five red
luxury vehicles that no doubt will be seeing lots of
travel and road time this summer.
Finally, we’ll take you down memory lane. OLOL
Children’s Hospital has traveled a long journey
itself to grow into one of the premier children’s
hospitals in the South.
We hope you enjoy reading the stories in this
issue and see how we truly believe in making
things better for children.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much
seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
—St. Francis of Assisi
table of
contents
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Passport to Pediatrics
Pediatric Transport Team
Celebrates One Year
What is Traveling with You
Keeping Your Family Healthy
on Vacation
Ticket to Ride
Driving the Future
Red Cars Hit the Road
A Message from the
Foundation President/CEO
Long Journey Traveled
A Memory Book of
Our Journey through Time
our mission
Inspired by the vision of St. Francis of Assisi
and in the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church,
we extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ to
God’s people, especially those most in need.
We call forth all who serve in this healthcare ministry,
to share their gifts and talents to create a spirit of healing—
with reverence and love for all life, with joyfulness of spirit,
and with humility and justice for all those entrusted to our care.
All information provided on diagnosis
and therapy reflects the care environment
of Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital
and related physician practices. It is not a substitute
for the professional judgment of a qualified
healthcare provider based upon actual examination
of a patient’s condition and history. Therefore, it
should not be construed as medical advice for
any particular patient’s condition, and may not
be altered in different care environments.
We are, with God’s help, a healing and spiritual presence
for each other and for the communities we are privileged to serve.
On the cover:
The Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital Pediatric Transport team.
Opposite page: Transport Team Coordinator Jeffrey Peno celebrating
one year anniversary of transport with an OLOL Children’s Hospital patient.
Cover Photography: Jeannie Frey Rhodes
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BASTROP
Have Transport - Will Travel
caring for critically ill children
across the state and beyond
Roseland
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“Busy” hardly seems to adequately describe the pediatric transport team at Our
Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital. That team has far surpassed early estimates
for the number of children it would transport in its first year. Having recently
celebrated its first anniversary, the number of critically ill children transported
to OLOL Children’s Hospital totals 162 - delivered here for specialized care not
available in their own communities. Those children come from far and wide: 20
Louisiana parishes, two Mississippi counties and 36 referring facilities. These
are families who found themselves suddenly traveling to a children’s hospital they
never thought they would need or in some cases weren’t even aware of. The following
are just a few of these stories. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Roseland, Louisiana
<< Passport to >>
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Pediatrics
62 miles from Baton Rouge
124 miles roundtrip
K
eith Cook describes his daughter
Lena as a “country girl,” the kind of
child who loves to play outside with
her animals and dislikes wearing shoes.
In September of 2012, she might have
wished she were wearing a pair.
Early one evening, Keith walked out
into his backyard to see Lena and a friend
running hysterically toward the house.
Lena had been bitten by a snake. Both
girls reported hearing the snake “rattle”
and a fang was visibly imbedded in Lena’s
ankle. Lena’s mother, Christy, jumped
into action by tying a tourniquet around
Lena’s leg and trying to suck out the
poison. (Please see box on the following
page for the correct things to do if your
child is bitten by a snake.) An ambulance
rushed Lena to her local community
hospital. As happens with many rural
hospitals not used to treating children,
the snake bite proved to be something
the medical team there needed help
with. They called on Our Lady of the
Lake Children’s Hospital and its pediatric
transport team. That got the wheels in
motion, literally, as the transport team
left OLOL Children’s Hospital within 20
minutes to begin the 124-mile roundtrip
journey via ambulance.
Keith describes the anxiety any parent
would feel when suddenly he had to
trust people he had never met with his
child’s life. But Keith remembers, “It was
extremely comforting. She was going
to be on the road but it’s basically a
mini-hospital (an ambulance with the
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ed.
pediatric transport team onboard). ”
Once the team arrived back at OLOL
Children’s Hospital, doctors went
to work to combat the side effects
a snake’s venom can have on a child
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Your immediate task is
to determine whether your
child has been bitten by a
poisonous snake.
Call your doctor,
poison center or local
emergency room and be
prepared to describe what
the snake looked like. Your
child may need an injection
of an antivenom serum as
quickly as possible.
Until you can get him to a
hospital emergency room,
don’t give him anything to
eat or drink, and try to keep the
bitten region of his body lower
than the heart. Constricting
bands may be placed two inches
above and below the bite site,
or only above the bite if it is
located near the end of a limb;
the bands should not cut off the
pulse or the blood flow through
the arteries. (Note from Dr.
Brian Stout- “That means not
too tight! It’s important to not
stop the blood flow because this
can cause toxins to build up
around the bite and cause even
worse problems and damage.”)
On your way to the
emergency room, keep the
area cool by placing ice on it.
who only weighs around 70 pounds.
Dr. Brian Stout specializes in pediatric
emergency medicine. He has treated
several cases of snake bites at OLOL
Children’s Hospital. He says poisonous
snake bites are especially dangerous
because, “Snake venom has a multitude
of different neurotoxins in it... often
times there can be muscle breakdown
from the bite as well as varying
degrees of paralysis.” Always ready,
OLOL Children’s Hospital stocks
the type of antivenom required for
bites from snakes belonging to the pit
viper family- rattlesnakes, copperheads,
water moccasins- the type of poisonous
snakes most commonly encountered in
our region.
After receiving the antivenom,
spending two days in the Pediatric
Intensive Care Unit and two more in a
regular hospital room, Lena was able to
go home. Turns out the snake that bit her
was a timber rattlesnake, also known as
a canebrake rattlesnake, which research
has shown to be potentially one of North
Source- The American Academy of Pediatrics
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“
Snake venom
has a multitude of
different neurotoxins
in it... often times
there can be muscle
breakdown from
the bite as well as
varying degrees of
paralysis.
—Dr. Brian Stout
”
America’s most dangerous snakes, due
to its long fangs, impressive size and
high venom yield.
Keith says, “I’m glad they called OLOL
Children’s Hospital. Everybody there
took very good care of my little girl.
They seemed really concerned from the
time we got there to the time we left.
They knew her by first name.”
Lena, who will be 10 years old in June,
is back at being a country girl, loving
being outside and playing with her dogs.
Although these days, she can be found
wearing shoes more often than not.
Ask the Expert:
What is a driver supposed to do when an ambulance is
behind them with lights and sirens flashing?
“When any emergency vehicle is behind you and they have their emergency lights
and sirens activated, you should pull to the right and yield to the emergency vehicle.
Actually, anytime you are approaching an emergency vehicle in any direction, you
should pull to the right of the roadway until they pass.”
Justin K. Cox, NREMT- P | Operations Manager, Capital District
Acadian Ambulance Service
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What do you do if a
snake bites your child?
Kaplan, Louisiana
92 miles from Baton Rouge
184 miles round trip
O
n February 24, 2013, around noon,
Cristal LeBlanc was driving her
son and daughter to a little league
basketball tournament near their
hometown of Maurice, Louisiana. The
next thing she remembers is lying on a
stretcher being attended by emergency
response personnel. Workers told her
she had suffered a seizure while driving
and that her 9-year-old daughter was fine
but her 11-year-old son had been injured.
Justin was delivered by ambulance to
the nearest community hospital, but the
medical team there quickly determined
Justin needed that next level of care
available at Our Lady of the Lake
Children’s Hospital. The bones around his
left eye had been fractured in the crash
and his eyesight was at risk.
In just a little over an hour, the
pediatric transport team from OLOL
Children’s Hospital arrived via helicopter
to bring Justin to Baton Rouge. The team
is trained to handle crises involving kids,
and once airborne, they reassured Justin
and his father, who rode with them.
Cristal drove the 90 plus miles to Baton
Rouge, a drive that seemed to take an
eternity. She remembers thinking, “My
son plays every sport you can think of. I
was scared he wouldn’t be able to play
any sports at all and might be blind in
one eye.”
Orbital fractures are serious business.
Doctors have to make sure tissues
surrounding the eye are not trapped
in the fractures, as these injuries need
prompt surgical treatment. Improperly
treated, kids can have long-term
complications such as loss of vision,
double vision and abnormal appearance.
Once the transport team arrived with
Justin, emergency doctors ordered more
tests and x-rays. Thankfully, Justin did
not need surgery and his eyesight was
unharmed. He would just have to make
it through a few weeks of intensive
swelling and take extra care with his eye.
The fact that OLOL Children’s Hospital
Justin Mayard the
day before the
accident.
Justin while hospitalized afte
r the accident.
and the pediatric transport team exist is
comforting to Cristal, who says, “These
things happen in our (rural) area and we
don’t have a pediatric hospital that’s able
to do things like this. They (the transport
team) made me feel safe.”
Today, Justin has graduated from
sixth grade at Cecil Picard Elementary in
Maurice. While he has to sit out of sports
for the summer to give the bones around
his eye a chance to heal, look for Justin
back on the football field this fall.
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The pediatric transport team
at OLOL Children’s Hospital
consists of 21 pediatric critical
care nurses and respiratory
therapists, five pediatric
ns
Elizabeth Colli
Bastrop, Louisiana
202 miles from Baton Rouge
404 miles roundtrip
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leven-year-old Elizabeth Collins
had never traveled on an airplane
before this past December.
Suddenly, she found herself on one
but it wasn’t the type of trip she had
dreamed about and in fact came as
quite a surprise.
She lives with her grandmother
Lena in a small town just outside
of Bastrop, Louisiana. Elizabeth
had been sick for several days
with fever and a rash. When Lena
brought Elizabeth to their local
hospital, Elizabeth began to lose
consciousness; her blood pressure
was bottoming out at times, her
heart racing others. Then Elizabeth’s
kidneys began to shut down.
The hospital wasn’t equipped with
the expertise necessary to handle
this type of case so they called the
pediatric transport team at OLOL
Children’s Hospital to come and
get her. It would be Elizabeth’s first
flight on a plane operated by Acadian
Ambulance. Lena recalls the head of
the pediatric transport team, Jeffrey
Peno, reassuring her family about
the plane ride. Not surprisingly they
also found him, “efficient at what he
was doing, directing the transport
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Elizabeth
with her
family at
a recent
celebration.
“
while communicating to the family what
would be happening,” because Jeffrey
is a former army medic and used to
remaining calm in stressful situations.
“We knew she was in good hands,”
says Lena.
Once at OLOL Children’s Hospital,
Elizabeth was diagnosed with
Toxic Shock Syndrome (TSS), a rare
complication of bacterial infection. It
often takes many pediatric specialists in
different areas of expertise to treat TSS,
which was the case here. A diagnosis
of TSS can require attention from
pediatricians further trained in intensive
care, infectious disease, pulmonology,
nephrology/dialysis, cardiology and
dermatology. OLOL Children’s Hospital
now has 60 pediatric specialists on staff
in these areas and more.
Historically toxic shock has been
linked with the use of superabsorbent
tampons by menstruating women, but
it has been reported that about half
the cases occur in people who aren’t
menstruating, including older women,
men and children. TSS is often confused
with other conditions, and a quick
diagnosis and proper treatment is crucial.
Dr. Firdous Laique, a pediatric intensive
care specialist at OLOL Children’s
If it had to be
done again, I
would want them
to be the ones
doing it. It’s
not just a job
for them.
—Lena Collins
”
Hospital, often is the one giving the
orders when a child is transported. She
says, “Timely management can prevent
multi-organ failure and even death.”
Elizabeth began to turn the corner for
the better and after a few days in the
hospital, she was released to head back
to North Louisiana. For her care, Lena is
grateful to the team at OLOL Children’s
Hospital, saying, “If it had to be done
again, I would want them to be the ones
doing it. It’s not just a job to them. The
children are important to them. They are
not just patients. Every child hospitalized
there is special.”
Now 12, Elizabeth has completed fifth
grade, making A’s and B’s and is enjoying
her time spent playing in a youth
basketball league.
For that, Lena is even more thankful her granddaughter is healthy, happy and
doing quite well. And when you love a
child, isn’t that all that really matters?
critical care physicians and
six pediatric emergency care
doctors. Members of the team are
on site 24/7 ready to answer any
call for help. With a 20-minute
out-of-door goal, the transport
team, through a contract with
Acadian Ambulance, can travel by
ambulance, helicopter or plane,
depending on the emergency and
the distance.
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Happy
One Year
Anniversary!
in the past year The Pediatric
Transport Team:
• Traveled a total of 6,412
miles, 5,453 miles via ground
ambulance and nearly 1,000
miles in the air.
• Operated nine helicopter and
two plane flights.
• Traveled its longest distance 280 miles to Minden, Louisiana.
• Transported 162 children from
20 different Louisiana parishes
and two counties in Mississippi.
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A pediatric trans
’s Hospital.
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to OLOL Child
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• Uses equipment originally
designed for the military.
• Is now on the call list for the
Louisiana Emergency Response
Network (LERN) as a trusted
source for pediatric transport
during times of crisis.
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What is Traveling
with You?
Unwelcome germs can follow us everywhere.
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You might be
surprised where
those germs can
live and flourish...
The results are
eye-opening.
recurring or persistent disease. Often
these mystery cases are caused by
infectious agents like bacteria, fungi,
parasites or other rare infections.
Dr. Bolton, in his role as medical
detective, often diagnoses cases of
osteomyelitis (bone infection), septic
arthritis (joint infection), pneumonia,
meningitis, bacterial blood stream
infections, recurrent fever of unknown
origin and tuberculosis.
He is also an expert on germs, having
spent more than 10 years studying them
in his medical training. He says each day
we all come into contact with “hundreds
to thousands of them if not more. It’s
inevitable.”
You might be surprised where those
germs can live and flourish. Recent
research has focused on identifying
some of the germiest places or things
we come in contact with. The results are
eye-opening.
One researcher from the University
of Arizona took his swabs and petri
• Airplane bathrooms.
• Public drinking fountains.
• ATM buttons.
• Even the bottoms of women’s
purses and handbags.
The obvious defense against all
these germs is hand washing. Dr.
Bolton says to do it “before you eat,
after you eat, after using the restroom
and after you sneeze.” In addition he
advises when you cough or sneeze
“do so into your elbow. Your elbows
don’t come into contact with too many
things. When you cough or sneeze into
your hands, guess where your hands
end up?”
This advice goes for kids and adults.
He also recommends before travel
making sure everyone in your family is
updated on vaccines, including the one
for seasonal flu.
Having read this, don’t worry.
Dr. Bolton says, “Yes, it’s scary to
realize we contact microbes basically
everywhere we go. So, short of living
in a bubble, you will encounter them.
Do your best to use common sense
and wash your hands often, but don’t
freak out about it. For the number of
interactions we have with germs, the
rate of being affected is extremely
low.”
Bon voyage and happy hand washing!
Research Report on Shopping Cart Bacterial
Contamination - Dr. Charles P. Gerba, University
of Arizona
Yepiz-Gomez, M. S., K. R. Bright and C. P. Gerba.
2006. Bacterial occurrence on tabletops and in
dishcloths used to wipe down tabletops in public
restaurants and bars. Food Protect. Trends, 26:24-30
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f you’ve ever had a child become sick
on a trip, you know how quickly a
fun vacation can suddenly turn sour
and the only memories you return home
with center around nursing a child
through an illness.
Now that summer is here and
families are packing up to hit the road
for leisure time, we thought you might
be interested in how to help keep
your kids healthy, or at least some
precautions to take. The same tips can
keep you healthy too.
Dr. Michael Bolton, a pediatric
infectious disease specialist at OLOL
Children’s Hospital, often acts as
a second line of defense helping
pediatricians diagnose a baffling,
dishes on the road. His studies identified
the number one culprit for germ
transmission as grocery store carts
and the handles on them. Coliforms
were found on 72 percent of the carts
(suggesting the presence of fecal
matter) and E. coli (one really bad bug)
on 50 percent.
Another study by the same researcher
showed plastic restaurant menus are
another source of germ transmission. Just
think of all the hands that touch them.
Other research studies have pointed to:
• Soda fountains. Researchers theorize
plastic tubing inside the machines
might harbor bacteria.
• Lemon and lime wedges used in
restaurants. In one study published in
the Journal of Environmental Health, 70
percent of the lemons swabbed were
contaminated with microbial growth.
• Bathroom hand soap dispensers.
• Hotel room remote controls and
other surfaces in the room.
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Research
indicates some
of the germiest
things you will
touch include
grocery store
carts; and lemon
wedges and
menus used in
restaurants.
Dr. Michael Bolton,
Pediatric
Infectious Disease Sp
ecialist at
OLOL Children’s Hospi
tal.
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Ticket to Ride
Driving the Future 2013
raises close to $ 1 million
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ndoubtedly, five beautiful red Lexus vehicles in
this year’s Driving the Future raffle will be seeing
lots of road time and travel this summer.
Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital is blessed to have
friends and supporters, perhaps you, who rose to the challenge
to purchase $50 raffle tickets to help support lifesaving care
for the children we treat and maybe even win a car.
Your response has been overwhelming. This year’s raffle
raised almost $1 million- 100 percent of those dollars go to
OLOL Children’s Hospital to purchase pediatric equipment
for the hospital and support services for all children in need.
OLOL Children’s Hospital never turns a child away regardless
of ability to pay.
This year two thirds of the tickets were purchased by
women. Two people bought 20 tickets each. Requests for
tickets to ride came from 36 states, including Hawaii.
Surprisingly, all five winners are from Baton Rouge! While
many people waited until the final hours before the drawing
to purchase tickets, and might have had a hard time getting
through to an operator because the call volume was so high,
most of the winners bought their tickets prior to the day of
the drawing.
As is our custom, the winner drawn first from the hopper
gets first choice of the five cars. Second, second pick and so on
and so forth.
Five Cars- Five Winners! And they are (in the order drawn):
1. Velma McCray– Lexus RX
2.Terri Jameyson– Lexus ES
3.Laurie Aydell– Lexus IS C
4.Markeitha Walker– Lexus IS
5.Rachel Austin– Lexus CT
Our deepest gratitude goes out to everyone who purchased
tickets and to our amazing sponsors - Price LeBlanc
Lexus, IberiaBank, WAFB Channel 9 and Guaranty
Broadcasting. Look for Driving the Future traveling your way
again next spring!
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In addition to more than 100
pediatricians and family practice
doctors, these pediatric specialists
offer services here:
Adolescent Medicine
Karen Simpson, MD
Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry
John deBack, Jr., MD
Joseph Grizzaffi, MD
Warren Trask Jr., MD
Melissa Watson, MD
Pediatric Allergy &
Immunology
Theron McCormick, MD
Sandhya Mani, MD
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Abe Reddy, MD
Pediatric Cardiology
Michael Brumund, MD
Michael Crapanzano, MD
Wesley Davis, MD
R. Lester Hixon, MD
Pediatric Critical Care
Brian Binck, MD
Kelechi Iheagwara, MD
Firdous Laique, MD
Stephen Papizan, MD
Matei Petrescu, MD
Pediatric Developmental
Medicine
Steven Felix, MD
Pediatric Emergency
Medicine
Stephen Beasley, MD
Shannon Boudreaux, MD
Richard Lasseigne, MD
Tara Ryan, MD
Brian Stout, MD
Cristina Zeretzke, MD
Pediatric Endocrinology
James Gardner, MD
Chantal Lutfallah, MD
Pediatric Gastroenterology
J. Brannon Alberty, MD
Patrice Tyson, MD
Pediatric Genetics
Duane Superneau, MD
Pediatric Hematology/
Oncology
L. Vandy Black, MD
Jeffrey Deyo, MD, PhD
Emma Jones, MD,
Sheila L. Moore, MD
A Message from the
Foundation’s President/CEO
The Peace
Prayer of St.
Francis (page
3) includes the
phrases, “where
there is doubt,
faith; where there is despair, hope”.
Pediatric Hospital
Medicine
Lynzie Boudreaux, MD
Angela Byrd, MD
Natalie Evans, MD
Erin Hauck, MD
Shaun Kemmerly, MD
Erika Rabalais, MD
Hope is what our Transport Team
provides the patients and families
they transport to Our Lady of the
Pediatric Infectious
Disease
Michael Bolton, MD
Karen Williams, MD
continue to display in our Transport
Team when they call on us to take
their most challenging pediatric
cases. As you read in the three stories
Pediatric Nephrology
Scott Williams, MD
Lake Children’s Hospital and faith
is what hospitals across Louisiana
and Mississippi have displayed and
Pediatric Neurology
Charlotte A. Hollman, MD
Lalania K. Schexnayder, MD
chronicled in this edition of Wee
Believe, the families of the children
we transport aren’t prepared for a
Pediatric
Neurosurgery
Allen S. Joseph, MD
Scott Soleau, MD
trip to a hospital they probably didn’t
know existed, but the transport team
of medical professionals is always
Pediatric
Ophthalmology
Andrew Black, MD
Bradley Black, MD
Candace Collins, MD
Stephen Sessums, MD
Pamela Williams, MD
ready when they receive
the call.
The transport team was initiated
by a grant from our founders, the
Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady.
Pediatric Orthopedics
Michael A. Frierson, MD
These Catholic sisters have guided
our Health System for over 100 years
and have always provided us with
all of the resources needed to carry
Pediatric Pulmonology
Rafael Cilloniz, MD
Thomas Horsman, MD
David Thomas, MD
Pediatric Surgery
Faith Hansbrough, MD
John B. Lopoo, Jr., MD
J. Robert Upp, Jr., MD
raffle, especially Price LeBlanc
Lexus, the Price LeBlanc Family,
WAFB-Channel 9, IBERIABANK and
Guaranty Broadcasting. With your
support, we raised almost $1 million
to support our Children’s Hospital.
Please remember that every gift
for our Children’s Hospital counts.
Whether it’s a check you place and
mail in the enclosed envelope or the
proceeds from a lemonade stand,
every gift is appreciated and helps
us continue to meet the needs of
all of the children we treat. May
the Lord continue to bless you and
your family.
John Paul Funes
Our Lady of the Lake Foundation
out our shared mission of extending
our healing ministry to all of God’s
people, especially those most in
need. Those of you who support
OLOL Children’s Hospital have
followed the example of these devout
and dedicated women through your
own contributions to grow and
enhance the specialized pediatric
ololchildrens.org
care we deliver to over 80,000
patients every year.
This financial support from the
community has also allowed us to
continue to expand the number of
pediatric specialists (opposite page)
on staff at OLOL Children’s Hospital.
These are the same doctors who
provide the specialized care required
to treat the children transported
here from across the region. Very
few of us are blessed with the
gifts and talents to be a pediatric
specialist but as the young ladies
highlighted on the back cover show
us, we can all make a contribution to
make things better for the children
we treat.
Thank you to everyone who
supported our Driving the Future
The five Lexus vehicles up for raffle during
Driving the Future 2013 to benefit OLOL Child
ren’s Hospital.
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established by the Sisters.
OLOL Children’s
Hospital treated
children from all the
parishes and counties
shaded in blue.
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a pediatric patie
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beginning, child
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of the Sisters’ mini
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people in need.
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