After five decades of smoking, Tana Allain was hesitant to go in for her first lung cancer screening. But regular screenings made a...
Regular Screenings Detect Lung Cancer, Saving Her Life
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About Us Articles
Finding Family in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Although they live in Monroe, Meghan and Joseph Duckett find themselves at home at Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Health in Baton...
A Great Place to Work – Celebrating 55 Years of Faithful Service
Stevie Cousans, RN, has the distinction of being one of our health system’s longest-serving team members. Here’s her story of faithful...
Young Athlete Battles Rare Brain Cancer While Trusting God’s Plan
Until 2019 Jazmon was a healthy teenager who loved sports and being the life of the party, always dancing at family gatherings. That...
Sickle Cell Disease Doesn’t Slow Her Down
Six-year-old Kyliee requires monthly blood transfusions to treat her sickle cell disease, and her family makes the trip each month from...
V. Keith Rhynes, MD, MBA, FACS
V. Keith Rhynes, MD, MBA, FACS, general surgeon at Surgeons Group of Baton Rouge and Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group, wears many hats...
Karalyn R. Bentley, MD
After graduating high school, Karalyn R. Bentley, MD, didn’t take a summer job. She didn’t get ready to head off to college. Instead, she...
Jason Peary Bridges, MD
It wasn’t a surprise to his family when Jason Peary Bridges, MD, decided to become a physician. His grandfather was one of the first Black...
A Journey Home
Beth Scalco, a self-proclaimed second career nurse, began as a teacher, working evenings in business education. When she and her husband...