Baton Rouge, LA – Ochsner’s Golden Opportunity Program has released the April 2013 calendar of events.
Breakfast Bunch: What’s in a FACE?
Wednesday, April 3
Ochsner Medical Center – Baton Rouge Cafeteria
17000 Medical Center Drive
9:30 am – 11:00 am
Mary Mahein, director of FACES Lab and the director of the Louisiana Repository for Unidentified and Missing Persons Information Program and Professional in Residence at LSU, will discuss the Faces Lab. She will explain how the lab uses clay to create facial reconstructions based on the study of human remains and how the lab performs age-progression for the FBI.
Call 755-4984 to RSVP for this free event.
Movie Review: Tyler Perry's Confessions of a Marriage Counselor
Thursday, April 11
10:00 am
Grand Cinema Theater – 15365 George O’Neal Road
Meet at Grand Cinema on George O’Neal Road for a private showing of this latest movie. Admission cost is $6.50 per person and this includes admission, small drink and small popcorn.
Call 755-4984 to RSVP.
Breakfast Bunch: Hospice Care
Wednesday, April 17
Ochsner Medical Center – Baton Rouge Cafeteria
17000 Medical Center Drive
9:30 am – 11:00 am
Michelle Hunt will speak on the four distinct levels of Hospice care that are based on the patient’s needs: Routine Home Care, Continuous Home Care, General Inpatient Care and Respite Care and the benefits that come with each level.
Call 755-4984 to RSVP for this free event.
GO Road Trip: New Orleans Sightseeing Tour – Hop On/Hop Off Bus
Friday, April 19
Depart Ochsner Medical Center – Baton Rouge at 7:00 am and return at 5:00 pm.
Cost is $47.00 per person excluding lunch.
We will begin our New Orleans Sightseeing tour promptly at 10:00 am after boarding our private chartered Hop On/ Hop Off bus. On this tour we will have the opportunity to see and listen to commentary on the following historical sites: St. Louis Cemetery, Audubon Aquarium of the Americas, Harrah’s New Orleans Casino, Historic French World, Café Du Monde, Creole Queen and much more! The trip includes lunch on Canal Street with a choice of: Drago’s Seafood Restaurant, Crazy Lobster or Gordon Bierch Restaurant.
Call 755-4984 to RSVP.
Culinary Run: Teppanyaki Restaurant
Tuesday, April 23
11:00 am
Teppanyaki Restaurant
7677 Andrea St Ste 4-10
Let’s do lunch! Meet at Teppanyaki Restaurant with your Golden Opportunity friends.
Call 755-4984 to RSVP for this event
Golden Opportunity is a program for adults 50 and older in the Baton Rouge region. The program promotes an active, healthy, independent lifestyle for all seniors. Golden Opportunity offers a broad range of wellness services, educational information and seminars, wellness screenings, special discounts, social activities and travel opportunities. Anyone interested in learning more about Golden Opportunity can contact the office at 755-4984.
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About Ochsner’s Baton Rouge services:
Ochsner’s Baton Rouge services include eight local health centers and Ochsner Medical Center – Baton Rouge, a full service acute care hospital located at I-12 and O’Neal Lane. Ochsner employs more than 1,000 locally, including nearly 100 physicians. Ochsner Baton Rouge is a part of Ochsner Health System, southeast Louisiana’s largest non-profit, academic, multi-specialty, healthcare delivery system. Ochsner has been named the Consumer Choice for Healthcare in New Orleans for 17 consecutive years and is the only Louisiana hospital nationally recognized by U.S. News and World Report as a “Best Hospital” across eleven specialty categories. Ochsner employs more than 13,000 employees, over 850 physicians in over 90 medical specialties and subspecialties and conducts over 300 clinical research trials annually. Ochsner Health System is proud to be a tobacco-free environment. For more information, please visit ochsner.org and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
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