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".
- Concordia Rural Services Project
The Concordia Rural Services Project was designed to serve six rural parishes in central Louisiana that generally lack access to basic, yet critical, health care services.
- Dubach Health Outreach Project
The purpose of the Dubach Health Outreach Project is to provide access to a multidisciplinary community-based intervention to combat obesity and related chronic diseases.
- 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.
- Louisiana Learning About Pregnancy and STDs
This project was designed to address the health care status of rural teenagers in three poor, rural parishes by providing peer-based health education, recruiting and training peer health educators in each parish, and conducting presentations on STD and teen pregnancy prevention to local civic groups, churches, and schools.
- 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.
- South Cameron Memorial Hospital Rural Health Outreach Grant - Telemedicine Project
The outreach project has established seven Telemed sites throughout southwest Louisiana - five in rural hospitals, one in a facility for the developmentally disabled, and one in a mobile telemedicine clinic (a 36-foot Airstream recreational vehicle that travels to rural sites for health screenings and telemedicine encounters).
- 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
