Page 2 - Ochsner Magazine - Fall-Winter 2014

Welcome
dear friends,
Save the Date!
2015 King Cake Festival
A Family-Friendly Festival to Benefit Babies & Children at Ochsner.
/ Sample the finest king cakes from the greatest bakers. Vote for your favorite to win the People’s Choice Award. Join in the Stroller Fun Run. This FREE event features live music by local musicians and a special performance by Cowboy Mouth!
January 25, 2015 | Champions Square
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One of our “superheroes,” Cecilia, is featured on
the cover of this issue of Ochsner. Like many of our youngest patients, she has spent too much of her life at Ochsner Hospital for Children and at Ochsner Health Centers for Children. Cecilia, and patients like her, inspire us to provide the highest-quality care and to seek ways to make care available when and where you need it.
That’s why we are partnering with hospitals across Louisiana and the Gulf Coast to bring our experience with complex medical issues to communities large and small. Using new and innovative technologies, we are bringing the expertise of highly specialized physicians into hospitals, doctors’ offices and workplaces across the region. This allows patients to stay close to home and still access some of the world’s best-trained medi- cal specialists. We envision a future in which Ochsner doctors spend just as much time keeping people well as they do treating those who are sick. From moni- toring ICU patients and consulting on complex cases to introducing workplace health kiosks or creating online physician access for routine needs, Ochsner providers will lead the way. Our patients deserve it, and we will continue to pioneer even better ways to meet our patients’ needs.
We hope you enjoy this issue of Ochsner and, as always, we welcome your feedback. Feel free to email us at magazine@ochsner.org.
Warner L. Thomas
President & Chief Executive Officer Ochsner Health System
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Cover: Daymon Gardner