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HONORS | AWARDS
Healthy BR recently received the NOVA Award from the American Hospital Association. Healthy BR, part of the Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative, is one of five national winners of this year’s award, which recognizes hospitals and collaborations that are taking innovative steps to improve community health. Healthy BR has more than 70 partner organizations, including the area’s five acute care hospitals. At the presentation: Denise Dugas, Vice presidents of pperations, Seaside Healthcare; Eric McMillen, chief executive officer, Ochsner Medical Center in Baton Rouge; Teri Fontenot, president and CEO, Woman’s Hospital; Mark Slyter, CEO, Baton Rouge General Medical Center; Scott Wester, president and CEO, Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center; Coletta Barrett, vice president of mission at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center and Chair of the Mayor’s Healthy City Initiative; and Andy Allen, community outreach coordinator, Office of Mayor-President Melvin ‘Kip’ Holden.
COMPANY NEWS
EATEL has launched GIG Internet service. Leveraging its 100% fiber optic network connectivity, EATEL is offering speeds 10 times faster than standard high-speed Internet connections to Ascension and Livingston Parish area residents. Subscribers will receive a Gigabit Internet connection speed, 10 times faster than the typical 100 Megabit Internet connection speed.
Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital has opened a pediatric specialty clinic in the St. Elizabeth Hospital Physician Medical Office offering diagnosis and treatment for such conditions as asthma, food and environmental allergies, sinusitis, skin rashes, ear infections and more. The Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital Pediatric Specialty Clinic-Gonzales is the first clinic to offer these specialized pediatric services in the Gonzales area. As an extension of Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital, the new clinic offers the same services as the pediatric care offered at the main campus in Baton Rouge.
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Strategies & Ventures, a business and health care consulting and development firm based in Hammond, has begun serving clients nationally. The firm offers strategic planning, fiscal management, community assessment, organizational development and structuring, SWOT analysis, focus groups and management development. CEO Charlotte Dupré previously has served as CEO, COO, executive director and administrator for a range of health care organizations. Her experience covered ground-up development of new hospitals, including construction, planning and operations through service and market share development.
ACCREDITATION | CERTIFICATION
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Brian Asa has received his architecture license after completing all state licensure requirements. He has been with GraceHebert Architects since 2011. He has been involved in a variety of aspects of architectural design, including documentation of existing conditions and renovation, programming and space planning; cost analysis; conceptual design; BIM implementation and model development; presentation and rendering imagery; interdisciplinary coordination; and construction administration.
AWARDS | HONORS
BRZoom received a gold national ADDY Award at the American Advertising Federation’s recent national conference in Las Vegas. The winners were selected from more than 39,000 entries nationally and won at local and regional levels before advancing to the national competition. BRZoom won gold for its sales promotion packaging for Proximo Spirits. Dayna Zrinski was art director, David Worrell was creative director and Dale Baillie was production manager. BRZoom also won two silver awards in sales promotion: its sales promotion packaging for Q Industries’ Air Armor Compressor and for a single 3-D direct marketing campaign for Proximo Spirits.
Baton Rouge attorneys John “Jack” Sieberth and R. Andrew “Drew” Patty II of McGlinchey Stafford have been named “IP Stars” in Louisiana. The firm was also recognized in the latest edition of Managing Intellectual Property magazine’s IP Handbook. For the third consecutive year, McGlinchey Stafford received the distinction of a “Tier 1—Highly Recommended in Louisiana for Intellectual Property” ranking.
APPOINTMENTS | MEMBERSHIPS
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Jason Windham has joined the Alzheimer’s Services of the Capital Area board of directors. Windham is president of The Shobe Financial Group. As president, he manages the strategic vision, long-term planning, direction and overall accountability for the Shobe Financial Group. He is also an instructor of The EDSA Group financial education workshops. He has been involved in a number of community organizations, including Baton Rouge Financial Planning Association, the National FPA and Baton Rouge Junior Achievement.
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Monty Sullivan, president of the Louisiana Community and Technical System, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the National Student Clearinghouse and the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center for the 2015 to 2016 term. The National Student Clearinghouse provides higher education verifications and electronic education record exchanges, handling more than 1.2 billion education record transactions annually. The Clearinghouse serves as a single point of contact for the collection and timely exchange of accurate and comprehensive enrollment, degree, and certificate records on behalf of its more than 3,600 participating higher education institutions, which represent 98% of all students in public and private U.S. institutions.
The Opéra Louisiane board of directors recently elected officers for the 2015-2016 season. Russ Chapman is chair, Susan Leake is chair-elect, Ashley Michelli is treasurer and Kimberly Kochurka is secretary. Todd Schexnayder is immediate past chair.
