Louisiana
Service Region A
Parishes served: Caldwell, East Carroll, Franklin, Grant, Jackson, La Salle, Lincoln, Madison, Morehouse, Natchitoches, Rapides, Richland, St. Helena, Tangipahoa, Tensas, Union, Washington, West Carroll, West Feliciana, Winn
Service Region A Lead Contact
The Multipractice Clinic
Growing Up Fit, led by the Multipractice Clinic, addresses chronic disease prevention
as well as dental health services within service region A.
Contact person: Patrick Cowart
Phone: 985-345-1119
Fax: 985-345-1157
E-mail: ahecjpc@i-55.com
Mailing Address:
PO Box 130
Independence, LA 70443-0130
Service Region B
Parishes served: Acadia, Allen, Ascension, Assumption, Avoyelles, Catahoula,
Concordia, Evangeline, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson, Lafourche, Pointe
Coupee, Plaquemines, St. Bernard, St. Charles, St. James, St. John
the Baptist, St. Landry, St. Martin, West Baton Rouge
Service Region B Lead Contact
The Health Enrichment Network
The Health Enrichment Network will implement the Growing Up Fit chronic disease
prevention project as well as a dental health project in service region B.
Contact person: Donna Newton
Phone: 318-335-2112
Fax: 318-215-0613
E-mail: thenwellness@bellsouth.net
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 566
Oakdale, LA 71463-0566
Additional Louisiana Contacts
State and Parish Data
Louisiana
Parishes
Success Stories
- Better Health for the Delta
The Southeast Louisiana AHEC grantee for the Louisiana Mississippi Delta initiative combined our activities during Phase I and Phase II with the Robert Wood Johnson RWJ) Southern Rural Access Grant Program (SRAG) rural loan fund component and created "Better Health For the Delta".
- Dubach Health Outreach Project
The purpose of this health outreach project was to access a multidisciplinary community-based
intervention to combat obesity and related chronic diseases in Dubach and the neighboring communities.
- EMS Co-op Helps Rural Providers
Using the power of group purchasing within a cooperative structure, the North Central EMS Cooperative (NCEMSC) is an Emergency Medical Services (EMS) cooperative developed to serve Minnesota and surrounding states.
- Franklin Parish Hospital Service District Mental Health Project
The overarching goal of this project is to establish a primary care-based behavioral health program in the Franklin Parish region.
- Healthy Communities of Louisiana-The Obesity Project
Healthy Communities of Louisiana-The Obesity Project is a health education and screening project targeting obesity and related diseases such as diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke in at-risk African American adolescents and adults in the parishes of Bienville, Lincoln and Jackson.
- IT Project Connects Rural Louisiana Hospitals
Describes how Louisiana Rural Health Information Exchange (LARHIX), an information technology project bringing together 24 rural hospitals and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center at Shreveport (LSUHSC-S), works to fill the gaps in patient record sharing among rural Louisiana hospitals.
- Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker Program
The Vanderbilt Center for Health Services’ Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) program provides early intervention services to low income families in Nashville as well as other urban and rural areas in Appalachia and the Mississippi delta, including Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
- The CEI: Project Outreach
This project aims to improve many aspects of healthcare in St. Mary and surrounding Parishes.
- Transportation in Rural Louisiana Communities
Provides transportation to medical care for needy residents.
Funding Programs
Louisiana Funding
