Heart to Heart - Our Lady of the Lake Children`s Hospital

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Winter 2013
Heart to Heart
It’s a Small,
Small World
inside this
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In a Heartbeat Life Changes
Straight from the Heart
(and Eyes!)
Heartfelt Expressions
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a prayer for peace
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Welcome to
Believeng
Where Little Things Mean Everythi
This issue of Wee Believe is filled with matters of
the heart. OLOL Children’s Hospital’s very mission
statement centers around love for all life (see page
at right), and that spirit of healing is evident in the
care given here and in the faces of the children and
families who receive it.
Here you will read about miraculous new
technology that allows a pediatric cardiologist at
OLOL Children’s Hospital to look into a previously
hidden world where hearts are no bigger than
a thumbnail, in babies yet to be born. You’ll
discover how this is saving tiny lives and keeping
families whole.
You’ll also read a heartbreaker of a story, an
accident that placed one teenager in a life or death
situation with a probable bad outcome. This story
has a heartwarming ending.
You’ll hear heartfelt expressions of gratitude
from families who have been touched by lifesaving,
compassionate care at OLOL Children’s Hospital.
And we’ll give you a sneak peek at a unique
photo shoot we call “A Day in the Life,” photos
from one day in a children’s hospital - our children’s
hospital - that many families thought they would
never find themselves in need of. Heart to heart
commentary from the photographer follows.
We hope you enjoy reading the stories in this
issue of Wee Believe and see how we truly do
believe in making things better for children.
Do you?
“I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing
God, who is sending a love letter to the world.”
—Mother Theresa
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
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Heart to Heart
It’s a small, small world
In a Heartbeat
How life for one patient changed
in an instant
Straight from the Heart
(and Eyes!)
Photographer captures and
comments on a day in the life
Heartfelt Expressions
A Message from the
Foundation President/CEO
The Giving Tree
Your heart’s desire
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:
Brennan Mills, John Talbott Ayers and Aaron Leblanc, OLOL Children’s Hospital patients.
Opposite page: Aaron Leblanc
Cover photography: Jeannie Frey Rhodes
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examination is obscured
inside a mother’s womb,
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embroidered on a quilt hanging in his
office say it best: heart mender. The
hearts he is helping mend are in babies
who haven’t been born yet and might not
survive without his help. It is only with
years of experience and training, and the
aid of imaging equipment so precise and
only available in recent years, that all this
is possible.
Dr. Brumund is Chief of Pediatrics at
Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital.
He and his partners make up Pediatric
Cardiology Associates of Louisiana and
possess some of the most advanced fetal
imaging equipment in the state, and the
only certified fetal echocardiography lab
in the region.
With a diagnostic accuracy of about
90% in most cases, this equipment
allows Dr. Brumund to peer inside the
chest of an unborn child and examine the
functions of his or her heart. What Dr.
Brumund can view now in a previously
invisible small, small world can mean the
difference between life and death. Once
a heart abnormality is detected and
diagnosed, cardiologists can intervene,
upping the percentages of survival at
birth and beyond.
Sounds like something out of a
futuristic movie, but Dr. Brumund
delivers this kind of care regularly at Our
Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital and
outreach clinics in Lafayette and Eunice.
Ramsey Ayers of Lafayette was
one of those patients. At 24 weeks
of pregnancy, ultrasound images
showed serious abnormalities in her
baby’s developing heart. Dr. Brumund
diagnosed Ramsey’s unborn child with a
“complete atrioventricular canal defect,”
John Talbott after heart surgery.
which means the central part of the
heart is completely gone and blood
mixes freely in every chamber. Until
recently, such a scenario in an unborn
child would have been undetectable,
untreatable and fatal. Not so any more.
Ramsey went on to receive the
additionally complicating and
distressing news that her baby would
also be born with Down Syndrome. But,
she says Dr. Brumund calmed her fears
by saying “he’s going to be fine, we’re
going to fix his heart.”
It’s this type of medicine Dr. Brumund
is passionate about practicing, saying
“All too often families have been given
incorrect or just wrong information and
are considering pregnancy termination
before we see them. Those are lives
we save. It’s about being caring and
compassionate.”
After being told by one doctor her
baby didn’t need to be seen until
after he was born, Dr. Brumund took
a cautious approach with Ramsey and
ordered and monitored ultrasounds
every three days of her pregnancy. That
turned out to be lifesaving.
Toward the end of the pregnancy,
those ultrasounds detected a sudden
potentially fatal problem, a decrease
in blood flow to the baby. Dr. Brumund
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If we can make the diagnosis of critical heart
disease prior to delivery, it at least gives us the
chance to avoid instability at the time of delivery.
—Dr. Michael Brumund
rushed Ramsey to Baton
Rouge for an emergency
C-section and John Talbott
Ayers was born.
While many of the
cases Dr. Brumund
consults on can be
treated before birth
with certain
medications
given to
the mother,
some cases
require
complex
operations
only
performed
by a few
facilities in
the nation.
John Talbott
would
require
such a surgery and the
Ayers family immediately
traveled to Boston with
Dr. Brumund as consult.
“I would tell any family
we have a true gift having
him locally to care for our
children,” says Ramsey.
Jane LeBlanc, also from
Lafayette, is another
one of Dr. Brumund’s
patients. After Dr. Brumund
diagnosed and followed
her unborn baby’s very
complex situation (the
heart’s pumping chambers
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the wrong pumping chamber was
pumping blood to the body), Jane
delivered her baby in Boston as per
his recommendation. The condition
caused her baby to have large holes in
his heart and severe valve leakage, but
after three open heart surgeries, Aaron
LeBlanc (left) is down to seeing Dr.
Brumund once a year.
Jane says, “It has made all the
difference in the world to us. We
consider Dr. Brumund to be part of our
family. He took such good care of our
child. We didn’t have to go far away
from home (other than for the actual
surgeries). For us the hour drive from
Lafayette to Baton Rouge was nothing.
We would have gladly done it daily
if needed because we knew we were
in the best of care and had the most
knowledgeable physicians to care for
our little boy.”
Christina Mills, a third patient from
Acadiana, also sought Dr. Brumund’s
expertise when her ultrasounds while
pregnant indicated problems. Dr.
Brumund diagnosed her baby with a
very complicated disease in which the
tiny heart’s pumping chambers were
also inverted; one of the ventricles
was very small and not adequate to be
useful all by itself.
After Brennan Mills (right) was
born, he too received corrective
heart surgeries out of state but
remains under the watchful eye of
Dr. Brumund. Christina says “it’s very
reassuring to see a cardiologist here in
the state and I don’t have to fly out of
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state once a month for a checkup. It’s
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very comforting to know we have such is certain: these families feel a deep
an excellent doctor right here.”
sense of gratitude. At the heart of the
Dr. Brumund says it’s “the ability
matter- these children are now able
to control as many circumstances
to grow up to make their own unique
surrounding the time of delivery as
marks on the world. Three little boys
possible. If we can make the diagnosis
are already making them.
of critical heart disease prior to
At 17 months, Ramsey says John
delivery, it at least gives us the chance
Talbott “loves to make silly faces and
to avoid any instability at the time
his parents laugh and is the biggest
of delivery.” It’s all about providing
snuggle-bug out of any of my children.”
families, in effect, a game-plan once
Brennan, at age three, is tearing it up
fetal heart issues are diagnosed.
on the soccer fields.
Upon reflection, all three mothers
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His parents echo sentiments shared
ago (without this technology and
by all three families and that is that
doctor), I wouldn’t have my little boy.
their children are truly “an amazing gift
There is no doubt in my mind... We
from God.”
consider Dr. Brumund to be part of
our family.”
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In a Heartbeat
in a coma, or if he would wake up with
weakness on the right side of his body, or
not wake up at all.”
As with many parents who find
themselves with a critically ill child,
Brandi says her only wish was, “Just let
him live. I’ll take him however you give
him to me. If it’s in a wheelchair I’ll take
him that way. If he can’t speak, I’ll take
him that way.”
“We just don’t know” is never a
comforting thing to hear, but with Brandt
in a medically induced coma to let his
brain rest, the Torres family could only
watch and wait.
Slowly but surely, brain scan after
brain scan began to show promise.
Helen Papaneri is a pediatric intensive
care nurse at OLOL Children’s Hospital
with 19 years of experience. She was
Brandt’s nurse and says what she
witnessed is a first in her career
and “an absolute miracle that
can only be attributed to skilled
surgeons and prayer.”
Only two days after
the accident, Brandi was
sitting beside Brandt
holding his hand as he was
How life for one patient changed in an instant
“
I woke up Saturday
morning to the worst
nightmare of my life.
—Brandi Torres
involving teenagers in a boat.
Brandi remembers desperately
pleading and praying, “Please God don’t
take him, I’m not ready. I still have work
to do. Please God, let me finish my job.”
Clinging to life, Brandt was rushed
to surgery. Dr. Luke Corsten was on call
that morning and had to strategically
remove part of Brandt’s skull to allow his
brain to swell. There was serious injury
to Brandt’s brain: the shotgun blast had
taken part of his ear and crushed his skull
inward. Dr. Corsten had to remove part
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a hunting ou
ting.
of Brandt’s left temporal
lobe, the part of the brain
that controls language.
After the Torres family
waited for what seemed
like hours for Brandt to come
out of the operating room, Dr.
Corsten finally emerged. Brandi
remembers him telling her,
“Brandt did survive the surgery
and everything went well, but this
is touch and go. This kid is fighting
for his life and the next 72 hours are
crucial. If he survives, he will likely
have severe brain injuries.”
Dr. Corsten remembers, “I was not
real optimistic. I was rather cautious…
I didn’t know if he was going to be
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s a project manager
for Milton Womack
Contractors, Brandi
Torres walked around building
sites at Our Lady of the Lake
Regional Medical Center for a
year. As she repeatedly passed
the children’s hospital housed
there, she never dreamed
she would be in need of the
lifesaving expertise that waited
inside- until she received the
phone call that is every parent’s
nightmare.
December 1st at 6 a.m. in
the morning, a sleepy Brandi
awakened to a phone ringing
and a voice at the other end
of the line saying, “There’s
been an accident. He’s still
conscious but you need to
get to the hospital fast.”
The Torres family arrived
at Our Lady of the Lake
Children’s Hospital
just as the ambulance
carrying their 15-year-old
son Brandt arrived. The
news wasn’t good. Brandt
had been accidentally
shot point blank in the
head with a 12-gauge
shotgun, a duck
hunting accident
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Brandt, nine da
The logo on T-shirts Brandt’s family and
friends wore during his hospitalization.
slowly and carefully weaned off the
medications keeping him in that coma.
Miraculously, Brandi says Brandt
suddenly opened one eye and “as I said
‘I love you!’ Brandt mouthed back, ‘I
love you too!’” Then as Brandi began
to cry, Brandt reached out to hug and
console his mother.
Dr. Corsten himself was astounded
at Brandt’s recovery saying, “A shotgun
blast to the head is often fatal. I don’t
know if it was the angulation of the
gun, or where the shotgun blast was,
or if the skull protected the brain. You
can look at it however you want. Was
there some sort of divine intervention,
t.
after the acciden
guardian angel? Or just plain lucky.”
“I woke up Saturday morning to the
worst nightmare of my life,” says Brandi
and “by Monday, I was in a dream I
never wanted to wake up from… they
saved his life.”
Now an advocate for a children’s
hospital she never thought she would
need, Brandi says “I see the difference,
why it’s so important to have it, this
special care for children. It’s a certain
kind of care children need over and
above adults. You can feel the love and
concern. It’s almost like it was their own
child in the bed.”
Nine days after the accident, the
Torres family brought Brandt home, just
in time for Christmas. A sophomore at
Livonia High School, Brandt will need
reconstructive surgery for his scalp and
skull as well as speech, physical and
occupational therapy. And although
the trauma to his brain makes certain
words hard to recall, he is walking and
talking. And that, for the Torreses is a
true Christmas miracle. Says Brandi,
“We didn’t have one present under the
tree but I didn’t need one. We got our
present.”
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Straight from
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the Heart
(and eyes!)
Photographer captures and comments on a day in the life
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In late 2012, documentary photographer Jeannie Frey Rhodes was asked to visit Our Lady of the Lake
Children’s Hospital by OLOL Foundation to capture a “Day in the Life”. Nothing was staged. All children
depicted (with their parents’ permission) are real patients at the children’s hospital. These are some of the images
she took that day accompanied by her own commentary. You can see the entire photo exhibit at The Shaw
Center for the Arts in downtown Baton Rouge beginning April 9 and running through early June.
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Precision. Watching this baby have surgery
to correct a crossed eye was completely
fascinating. What is not visible is all the
OR staff surrounding this child while the
surgeon performs a task I am sure he’s
done over and over again.
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While I was shooting, a pediatric transport
was arriving by ambulance at the ER bay.
There were so many people transporting
that tiny baby. While only four are
visible- there were at least 6 more team
members clearing the way for this tiny
patient to make his way to the PICU.
It was a frightening experience for me,
but everyone else was calm and ready.
The newly activated team has already
transported over 100 critically ill children
from across the state and Mississippi to
OLOL Children’s Hospital.
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I met this young man, CJ, who suffers
from sickle cell anemia, in 2008 when
I photographed the calendar for the
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hospital. The next year during the first
Day in the Life shoot in 2009 I happened
upon him again, while he slept. This time
he looked like a grown man, not the little
boy I met four years ago. Adolescent boys
are always tough to photograph and this
was no exception. So his mother leaned in
for a kiss – and that was the shot.
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This was one of my first shots of the
morning. Although it was a relatively
minor procedure, I could see the tension
in the mother’s face as a child life
specialist took the little girl from her
mother’s arms and carried her to surgery
all the while distracting her with an iPad.
This was the moment she went under – if
only mom could have seen the concern
and care surrounding her baby in the
procedure room.
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Technology is fascinating. This young man
had a foreign object in his heel - which
is visible on the screen at the left of the
photo. I watched amazed - as these
doctors and nurses steadied the patient’s
foot inside this giant “C” so they could
locate the piece of glass and remove it
without cutting his foot open.
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Just please leave me alone. I’m sure that’s
what this little girl was thinking. No
matter how many bubbles, pet therapies
and distractions, being a patient in the
pediatric hematology/oncology wing
is tough.
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These are sights one sees in the PICU. A
child life specialist distracts a baby during
a procedure. Such lengths are taken to
make their little patients feel safe and
secure in what could be an otherwise
frightening situation.
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This young boy, probably around 12 or 13 was
in a car accident that broke both legs and
his pelvis. Only two days post op and the
physical therapists were there to get him up
and moving. His agony was palatable.
a day in the life
jeannie frey rhodes
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A Message from the
Heartfelt
Foundation’s President/CEO
Written by the mother of a patient at OLOL Children’s Hospital
The best and most beautiful
things in the world cannot be seen
or even touched - they must be felt
with the heart. —Helen Keller
In the spring of 2012,
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our 9-year-old daughter Juliana was rushed to the
pediatric emergency room at Our Lady of the Lake
Children’s Hospital. My husband had discovered
her in her bed seizing, vomiting, and unresponsive
before we called 911. Once at the hospital, pediatric
specialists discovered that Juliana’s brain was
swelling and that she had hypoglycemia (low blood
sugar) and aspiration pneumonia. She was put into
a medically induced coma with countless “life lines”
attached to her little body. She had neurosurgery
that evening to install an intracranial pressure
monitor and a drain for fluid on her brain. Pediatric
critical care physicians in the PICU that first night
told us there was a large chance our daughter would
not survive.
Juliana was diagnosed with Reye’s syndrome,
which we were told had not been seen in the
area since the mid-1980s when parents gave their
children aspirin. We do not know how Juliana
contracted this disease. It is a fatal illness for almost
all children who contract it. We were encouraged
by these phenomenal physicians to pray for our
daughter.
The caring team from Child Life helped us through
challenging times and prepared Juliana’s brother
and sister to see her for the first time in the PICU.
Juliana’s doctors and nurses took their time in
planning her medical care, with both meticulous
attention to her medical needs and the needs of our
family. Even though we had a daughter in critical
condition in the PICU, we felt so much confidence in
and gratitude for the caring hands around her.
As we sat beside her bed for days as our daughter
slept with the rhythm of her ventilator, we prayed.
Family and friends across the Southeast began to
pray for Juliana, and through our Caring Bridge
site, we had people praying for Juliana from Peru
to Australia. Along with incredible and thoughtful
medical care by our nurses and doctors in the PICU,
the power of prayer helped Juliana turn the corner.
One week later, Juliana woke up from her coma.
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Juliana after awaking from
a coma with brother Alex
and sister Madeline.
She had to relearn almost everything again after her
illness, so she was not saying many words. Three days
later, at about 5:30AM on Easter Sunday, she looked
at me and said, “I feel awesome!” Later that day, she
walked her first three steps.
Words cannot adequately express how thankful my
family is for the gift of life for our daughter. A day does
not go by when we do not think of how Juliana’s life
was saved at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital
when the odds were not in her favor. Her doctors and
nurses call Juliana’s story a “miracle story” and many
people told us she helped them restore their faith and
believe in miracles again. May God continue to bless
the mission of those working inside the walls of Our
Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital. We hope all who
were part of Juliana’s healing team know how much
each and every one of you mean to our family.
As you read this issue of Wee
Believe, you see it is all about
matters of the heart - things seen and unseen. A tiny
heart flickers at birth which most assuredly wouldn’t have
survived prior to the advancement of new technology. The
heartfelt anguish a parent feels when a child is battling
for his life. The joy and gratitude a parent feels for a team
of caregivers who helped their child live. Miracles happen
every day at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital.
This is possible only with the help of people with big
hearts, individuals who support this work with their time,
talent and treasure. People like Shaquille O’Neal who
visited OLOL Children’s Hospital late last year where he
was presented with a doctor’s coat in honor of his recent
doctoral degree. Dr. Shaquille O’Neal roamed the halls and
lit up the faces of everyone he came in contact with. His
larger than life persona is no match to his even larger heart
for our patients and his continued support for lifesaving
care at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital.
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, 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
Marguerite Martinez
Pediatric Endocrinology
James Gardner, MD
Chantal Lutfallah, MD
Juliana donated
change from her
own piggybank to
OLOL Children’s Hospital to
“help another family with a
miracle of their own one day.”
Dr. O’Neal is just one of many people in our community
and beyond who has stepped forward to become part
of our story and our mission of caring for kids. Perhaps
you too have helped in your own way by sending in the
envelope included in this magazine with your donations.
Many of you have. We prayerfully ask for your continued
support for ‘our’ children’s hospital that has become dear
to many hearts, including mine.
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
Pediatric Hospital
Medicine
Lynzie Boudreaux, MD
Angela Byrd, MD
Natalie Evans, MD
Erin Hauck, MD
Clay Jones, MD
Shaun Kemmerly, MD
Erika Rabalais, MD
Pediatric Infectious
Disease
Michael Bolton, MD
Karen Williams, MD
Pediatric Nephrology
Scott Williams, MD
Pediatric Neurology
Charlotte A. Hollman, MD
Lalania K. Schexnayder, MD
Pediatric
Neurosurgery
Allen S. Joseph, MD
Scott Soleau, MD
Pediatric
Ophthalmology
Andrew Black, MD
Bradley Black, MD
Candace Collins, MD
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Pediatric Surgery
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P.O. Box 84357
Baton Rouge, LA 70884
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PAID
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Events
Driving the Future – 5 Cars, 5 Winners!
Coming in March
La State & Regional Chili Cook-Off benefiting
OLOL Children’s Hospital
March 9—10 • LSU Parker Coliseum, 10:30 am - 5:30 pm
Children’s Miracle Network Bass Classic
March 16 • St. James Boat Club
St. Patrick’s Day 3.17 Run or Walk
& Half Mile Kids Fun Run
March 17 • Register at www.fleetfeetbatonrouge.com
21st Annual Ace Hardware Cajun Classic
April 5 • Santa Maria Golf Course
Our Lady of the Lake Gala featuring The Doobie Brothers
April 18 • Baton Rouge River Center
Prairieville Walmart Golf Tournament
April 24 • The Oaks at Sherwood Golf Course
For more information go to ololchildrens.org
or call (225) 765-5951.
For more information on Our Lady
of the Lake Children’s Hospital or
Wee Believe magazine, please contact:
Melissa Lewis Anderson
Director Community Relations
and Business Development
Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital
Phone (225) 765-5016
melissa.anderson@ololrmc.com
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Foundation Copyright 2013
Our Lady of the Lake Hospital, Inc.
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OLOL Children’s Hospital
Feb 28 ­- March 2
96.1 The River
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