HOSPITAL: Hospital thanks Washington Parish community

FROM PAGE 21 year. Ralph was named VP, Chief Operating Officer. Since 2014, Ralph has served their ministry as VP, Chief Nursing Officer. A 25-year nursing veteran, he has spent 13 of those years serving within the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System.

Tren Garbo was named VP, Chief Nursing Officer. Tren has served at the facility since August 2002.

Celebrating Servant Hearts

Our Lady of the Angels celebrated it’s 2022 Franciscan Service Award recipients at a special banquet, held at Money Hill Country Club. These team members were nominated by their peers for their relentless expression of the hospital’s mission and core values – Service, Reverence and Love for All of Life, Joyfulness of Spirit, Humility and Justice. Congratulations to Leigh Ann Graham, Wound Care, Robert Owens, Dietary, Loretta Robertson, ICU, Brandy Vince, Ambulatory Surgery, and Patti Wascom, Gastroenterology.

Expanding Care

With the addition of these new physicians and advanced practice providers, Our Lady of the Angels expanded access to family medicine and cardiology care and added outpatient psychiatry and dermatology last year.

• Susette Dean, NP, Family Medicine

• Lauren Groves, MD, Psychiatry

• Samantha Karlin, MD, Dermatology

• Kimberly Salsman, NP, Family Medicine

• Lori Quinn-Tate, CNS, Cardiology

Our Lady of the Angels Health thanks the Washington Parish community for trusting them with their healthcare needs.

About Our Lady of the Angels Health

Our Lady of the Angels Health in Bogalusa, Louisiana, has a team of more than 500 employees committed to building a healthier community through excellence in patient care and community education. With a full-service acute care hospital, more than a dozen primary and specialty clinics, extended primary care and pediatric hours, and a team of more than 300 credentialed providers, Our Lady of the Angels provides comprehensive Catholic healthcare services for the people of Washington Parish and the surrounding areas. Our Lady of the Angels is a teaching site for graduate medical education, in partnership with LSU Health—operating the only rurally located rural family medicine residency program in Louisiana and one of only 55 in the nation. Our Lady of the Angels is part of the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System and is driven by its mission to serve all of God’s people, especially those most in need. For more information, visit www.oloah.org.