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Gabriela Ruiz, MD
Gabriela Ruiz, MD, is a physician resident with Our Lady of the Lake Children’s Hospital. Dr. Ruiz joined the ministry in 2022 as a part of the pediatric residency and...
Seeking a Lifeline to Fight an Ultra-Rare Kidney Disease
In a race against time, 17-year-old Lauren is teetering on the verge of needing dialysis. She is in need of a living kidney donor as part of her battle with dense...
Lorenza Tomas Alonzo, RN
Lorenzo Tomas Alonzo, RN, works at Our Lady of the Lake Assumption as an ER nurse. Alonzo has been with our health system since January 2016. Alonzo was born in...
Laura Daigle, RN
Laura Daigle, RN, is a nurse in Labor and Delivery at Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s and Children’s Hospital. Daigle joined our ministry before she graduated from the...
Arturo Blanco, MD
Arturo Blanco, MD, is a board-certified family physician who has been a part of our ministry for more than 13 years. Dr. Blanco serves at the family medicine clinic in...
Protecting Kids’ Health with Vaccines
The return to the school routine has kids' immune systems fighting off RSV, flu and COVID-19. Kali Broussard, MD, pediatrician and pediatric infectious diseases...
Geaux Hero: Michelle Nelson is the Center of the Family at Surgeons Group of Baton Rouge
People might know Michelle Nelson, NP, as the lead nurse practitioner with the Surgeons Group of Baton Rouge at Our Lady of the Lake Health. Or they might know her as...
40 Years of Miracles: Celebrating Our NICU’s Legacy
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at Our Lady of Lourdes Women’s & Children’s Hospital, Acadiana’s only Level III Surgical NICU, has provided exceptional care...
Anna Maria Medrano, RN
Anna Maria Medrano, RN, is a night shift nurse in the medical surgery unit at Our Lady of the Angels Hospital. Medrano has been with the ministry for almost three...
Gabriel Orellana, RN
Gabriel Orellana, RN, works as an intensive care unit (ICU) nurse at Our Lady of Lourdes Heart Hospital. He works in the progressive care unit where his patient...
DayDi Fernandez
DayDi Fernandez has been with FMOLHS for eight years. Her role as an Epic Application Systems Analyst on the inpatient orders team means that she supports all aspects...
Linda Vanessa Yaul, MSN
Linda Vanessa Yaul, MSN, an ICU nurse at St. Dominic Hospital, has been with St. Dominic’s for eight and half years. She serves as a preceptor and charge nurse,...