2009 - Q2 Barton Award winners. Students at SJA and CHS join to ...
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Calculus<br />
26%<br />
The percentage of U.S. charitable contributions given<br />
by families earning <strong>at</strong> least $500,000. Those families<br />
account for 1% of the popul<strong>at</strong>ion.<br />
Source: Bos<strong>to</strong>n College Center on Wealth <strong>and</strong> Philanthropy<br />
It will also take over a<br />
vast number of cases<br />
th<strong>at</strong> now are managed<br />
<strong>at</strong> EKL, which will focus<br />
on surgeries <strong>and</strong> other<br />
tre<strong>at</strong>ments th<strong>at</strong> require<br />
overnight stays.<br />
But EKL’s days might<br />
be numbered as well. LSU<br />
<strong>and</strong> Our Lady of the Lake<br />
Regional Medical Center<br />
are negoti<strong>at</strong>ing a deal for<br />
the Lake <strong>to</strong> collabor<strong>at</strong>e on<br />
an LSU teaching hospital.<br />
If so, p<strong>at</strong>ients of EKL<br />
would be tre<strong>at</strong>ed across<br />
<strong>to</strong>wn on Essen Lane.<br />
For its deal with the Lake,<br />
The new clinic will h<strong>and</strong>le about<br />
200,000 p<strong>at</strong>ient stays each year.<br />
LSU wants the Legisl<strong>at</strong>ure<br />
<strong>to</strong> approve $120 million for<br />
a trauma center, 60 hospital<br />
beds, a medical educ<strong>at</strong>ion<br />
among users of EKL.<br />
building <strong>and</strong> more. The new<br />
Finding a way <strong>to</strong> provide<br />
construction would be <strong>at</strong> or<br />
primary care through the<br />
near the Lake.<br />
St<strong>at</strong>e Sen. Sharon Wes<strong>to</strong>n<br />
Broome, whose legisl<strong>at</strong>ive<br />
district includes the new clinic<br />
<strong>and</strong> the existing hospital,<br />
said the B<strong>at</strong>on Rouge Area<br />
Found<strong>at</strong>ion’s support for the<br />
clinic was essential in building<br />
early momentum <strong>and</strong> support<br />
for it.<br />
Broome was among many<br />
who worked on the project.<br />
She was instrumental in securing<br />
st<strong>at</strong>e funding for the<br />
clinic <strong>and</strong> building support<br />
clinic in North B<strong>at</strong>on Rouge<br />
was critical <strong>to</strong> discussions<br />
about EKL’s future because<br />
most visits <strong>to</strong> the existing<br />
hospital involve primary care,<br />
said Dr. Fred Cerise, who runs<br />
LSU’s health care division.<br />
The clinic will provide outp<strong>at</strong>ient<br />
services in a modern,<br />
more efficient setting, Cerise<br />
says. It also will offer a setting<br />
th<strong>at</strong> better supports ongoing<br />
rel<strong>at</strong>ionships between<br />
p<strong>at</strong>ients <strong>and</strong> doc<strong>to</strong>rs th<strong>at</strong> experts<br />
cite as essential <strong>to</strong> improved<br />
preventive care—<strong>and</strong><br />
better health outcomes.<br />
Clinics th<strong>at</strong> support th<strong>at</strong> rel<strong>at</strong>ionship<br />
between doc<strong>to</strong>rs<br />
<strong>and</strong> p<strong>at</strong>ients represent the future<br />
of health care, <strong>and</strong> not<br />
just for B<strong>at</strong>on Rouge, says<br />
Wes<strong>to</strong>n Broome. “Th<strong>at</strong>’s the<br />
future, not just for Louisiana,<br />
but for the n<strong>at</strong>ion,” she says. •<br />
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Currents <strong>Q2</strong> | <strong>2009</strong>
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