Sep 27, 2023 | Patient Stories
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 deposit disease, an ultra-rare autoimmune disease that is impacting her kidneys. Starting her senior year...
Sep 25, 2023 | Team Member Spotlights
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 Guatemala, and her family moved to the United States when she was 7. A fun fact about Alonzo is that...
Sep 20, 2023 | Team Member Spotlights
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 the person who helps train LSU medical students through Our Lady of the Lake’s Graduate Medical...
Sep 6, 2023 | Patient Stories
It was supposed to be a celebratory day. Sadie Soileau, just 9 years old, was riding home from her sister’s graduation at McNeese State University in Lake Charles in 2021. The family lived about an hour and a half away in the small town of Ville Platte. On the car...
