People & Flashes for May 16, 2014
New hires and promotions in the Acadiana business scene Caroline Trahan has joined Pixus Digital Printing as architectural signage specialist. Trahan has returned to the area after living and working...
People & Flashes for May 16, 2014
New hires and promotions in the Acadiana business scene Caroline Trahan has joined Pixus Digital Printing as architectural signage specialist. Trahan has returned to the area after living and working...
A look at recent promotions and other developments in Lafayette's business community. Amy Castro was promoted to VP/private banker in the Lafayette market for IberiaBank. Castro has 18 years of...
A look at what's going on in the local business community. Gary Keller, who retired from Opelousas General Health System late last year after serving as president and CEO for eight years, has rejoined...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011 Veteran commercial loan officers Glenn Decou and Burt K. Ortego have joined Eunice-based Tri-Parish Bank and will work out of the bank's Lafayette office. Decou is executive...
Michael Moles has joined Bizzuka Inc. as executive vice president. In this newly created role, Moles is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the efforts of multiple departments related to...
According to two of the industry’s most comprehensive annual surveys, Keller Williams Realty brokerages continue to defy the pervasive downturn in the industry by growing and expanding. RISMedia’s...
James McLemore has joined MidSouth Bank as CFO and senior executive vice president. He replaces Eustis Corrigan, who left the bank in January to head the new Lafayette office of Postlethwaite &...
Michael L. Matherne has been named president of Champion Real Estate Services LLC. Matherne joined Champion Real Estate in 2001 as the director of leasing and marketing and is actively involved in the...
Patricia C. Shay has joined Coldwell Banker Pelican as sales associate. She has worked in real estate for more than eight years and is active in the Louisiana Board of Realtors and the Realtors...
Craig G. Duplechin has joined First Bank and Trust as vice president and manager of the bank’s Lafayette private banking department. The New Orleans-based bank has Lafayette locations at 1201 Camellia...
Dena L. Moore has joined The Family Tree as CEO, replacing Jim Walton, who retired in December 2008. Moore has a Ph.D. in rehabilitation education and research from the University of Arkansas,...
University Medical Center has received the 2009 Outstanding Patient Experience Award from HealthGrades, the nation’s leading independent health care ratings organization, for ranking in the top 15...
Bryan and Yolanda Holmes have opened the local franchise Get A Grip Acadiana at 112 Donovan Drive in Scott, serving south Louisiana for the resurfacing and restoration of multiple surfaces like...
People & Flashes - February 2009
The American Ambulance Association presented its 2008 President’s Award to Tyron Picard, executive vice president of legal and governmental affairs for Acadian Ambulance, the largest private ambulance...
The U.S. Local Business Association has selected Dr. Samuel Moss for the 2008 Best of Lafayette Award in the dentists category. The Best of Local Business Award program recognizes outstanding area...
People & Flashes - January 2009
Gov. Bobby Jindal has appointed Yvonne Bell of Lafayette, executive director of Families Helping Families of Acadiana, to serve as an at-large member of the Governor’s Advisory Council on Disability...
People & Flashes - December 2008
Bryce Gaspard has joined Thomson, Smith & Leach Insurance Agency as a partner/personal lines producer. In addition to servicing existing accounts for the agency, Gaspard is charged with managing...
Health Flashes - November 2008
Nicole Melancon has been appointed corporate health care consultant for WellnessWorks, a new corporate incentive program sponsored by Our Lady of Lourdes. Melancon serves as the link between local...
Shannon Bernard has been promoted to sales support manager and Doug Hill to production manager for Cox Media’s clients in Acadiana and Baton Rouge. Bernard joined Cox Media as an account executive in...
The American Heart Association recognized Heart Hospital of Lafayette’s commitment to heart health in Louisiana with its 2007-2008 Heart & Stroke Champion Award. The AHA presented the award to...
Brad Pecot has joined Comit Technologies, a Lafayette-based Web site design and search engine optimization firm, as Internet marketing specialist/project manager. Pecot is managing clients’ Web...
Health Flashes - September 2008
Hamilton Medical Group has received a Gold Level Electronic Health Record Quality award from the Louisiana Health Care Review Inc., the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Louisiana. The...
People & Flashes - September 2008
Licensed mortgage loan originators Bonnie and Wilson Thibodeaux have joined Home Mortgage Associates, Lafayette’s oldest mortgage broker firm. The husband and wife team has more than 16 years of...
Rehab Solutions, which has been in business since 2000, has relocated from 3419 NW Evangeline Thruway to 353 Doucet Road, Ste. A-2. The outpatient clinic provides physical, occupational and speech...
People & Flashes - August 2008
Elizabeth “E.B.” Brooks, a recent graduate of the UL-Lafayette and a founding member of Save the Horse Farm, is one of 20 students in the nation selected to serve in the inaugural class of City Hall...
Healthy Lifestyle Coalition member and licensed dietitian Dorian Driscoll has launched a Web site to provide tools for weight management for individuals, children and adults. Driscoll’s site,...
Andre Fruge, president and CEO of Louisiana Capital CDC, has been appointed to the Louisiana Economic Development Board of Commerce and Industry by Gov. Bobby Jindal. The board advises the LED...
Opelousas General Health System has received the Silver Level 2007 Louisiana Hospital Quality Award, presented by Louisiana Health Care Review Inc., the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for...
The State of Louisiana Architect Selection Board has chosen Guidry Beazley Architects for the new Third Circuit Courthouse in Lake Charles. The $13 million project is expected to house 63,000 square...
High-definition television is making its way from the living room to the outpatient procedure room. Saints Streets Endoscopy Center, a partner with Lafayette General Medical Center, is the first in...
Katie Chiasson, director of economic and business development at Cleco, has been certified as a Professional Community and Economic Developer from the Community Development Council. Chaisson has been...
André Moreau has been appointed vice president of corporate development at Our Lady of Lourdes. Moreau has been with the hospital more than 16 years in a variety of roles, including marketing...
LITE has doubled the size of its staff. As technical director, a newly created position, Marty Altman will oversee LITE’s research, IT and software development teams. He has 17 years of experience in...
Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville and Marc Becker, Paragon’s director of convention sales, received a special nod at a recent gathering of the Louisiana Society of Association Executives, held at...
People & Flashes - February 2008
Bob S. Davis III has been named chief operating officer of Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center. For the past three years, Davis served as COO of Shasta Regional Medical Center in Redding,...
People & Flashes - January 2008
Doctors' Hospital of Opelousas was recently the site of a clinical anatomy course that focused on the pathology and treatment of the shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand. Organized by the Louisiana...
LAspecs Distinctive Eyewear, an optical boutique, has opened in The Market at River Ranch. "Our clients can glam it up, mix it up and show it off wearing the latest in cutting edge fashion...
The local affiliate for the National Alliance on Mental Illness is holding a fund-raiser, NAMIWalks, on Oct. 6. NAMI began as a grass roots movement created to help friends and family members of...
Jenny Monceaux has been appointed corporate health care consultant for Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center. Monceaux is responsible for enrolling, implementing and maintaining the...
LHC Group Inc., a premier provider of post-acute health care services primarily in rural markets, announced that it has formed two separate joint venture partnerships: Our Lady of Lourdes Regional...
Hospice of Acadiana has hired Alison Breaux as a bereavement counselor. A native of Lafayette, Breaux earned an undergraduate degree in psychology from LSU and a master's degree from the LSU School of...
Our Lady of Lourdes now offers the highest powered diagnosis equipment in Acadiana. The GE Infinia Hawkeye, a revolutionary combined nuclear medicine/computed tomography system, delivers unprecedented...
George W. "Bill" Schneider III, a 20-year veteran of the oil and gas industry, has been named president of COMM Engineering, USA. Schneider earned a bachelor of science degree in petroleum...
Elizabeth J. Champion recently earned the Certified in Healthcare Compliance professional credential. Champion, corporate compliance officer at Our Lady of Lourdes, underwent a vigorous examination...
Georgia Boudreaux, Irma Nell R. Bourque and Patricia Begnaud have been promoted to vice presidents at Teche Federal Bank. The bank's training director and assistant manager of retail sales, Boudreaux...
On May 3, Keith G. Myers, president and chief executive officer of Lafayette-based LHC Group, and Barry E. Stewart, the company's executive vice president and CFO, will make an investor presentation...
Aaron Lozier has joined Web site design, development and marketing firm Comit Technologies LLC as lead programmer. Lozier is in charge of all custom coding, development and implementation of Web-based...
Patrick W. Gandy Jr. has been named chief operating officer at Lafayette General Medical Center. Gandy most recently served as administrator of Lafayette General Surgical Hospital and Lafayette...
Doug Meaux has joined Graham Group Interactive's Web development team as operations manager. He works out of the firm's Lafayette office and also supervises staff in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans...
In conjunction with National Sleep Awareness Week (March 5 ' March 11), Our Lady of Lourdes will present a public educational forum on sleep disorders in men, women and children. The free event is...
U.S. Commercial Service Officers from Belgium will present a briefing at 9 a.m. Friday, March 2, at the International Center at 735 Jefferson St. on the opportunities to use Belgium as a European...
Russo Ad Group was awarded two W³ awards for its outstanding work in Web design. The W³ awards have established itself as the first major Web competition accessible to firms of all sizes. With more...
Angela Romero has been appointed director of health information management at Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center. She will oversee the medical center's medical records and is in charge of...
Ernest Freyou has been named to the board of directors of Teche Federal Bank. Freyou has 23 years of banking experience and was president of Regions Bank of Acadiana until his retirement in January...
Park Place Surgical Hospital's employees presented Miles Perret Cancer Services with a check for $2,920. The Employee Council raised money selling T-shirts, hats, stuffed teddy bears and other items...
Amy Castro has joined IberiaBank as branch manager for the recently opened Settlers Trace location in River Ranch. The Abbeville native has more than a decade of banking experience, most recently...
As Louisianans count down to the Jan. 1 enactment of the Louisiana Smoke-Free Air Act, many area restaurants are already protecting their patrons and employees from health effects of secondhand smoke...
Fred Werner attended the second annual Top Advisors Summit hosted by Barron's magazine and R.J. Shook, author of The Winner's Circle books rating Americas' top financial advisers. The invitation-only...
United Blood Services has teamed up with Courtesy GMC in a campaign to drive donors to save a life. Through December, all donors will be registered to win a 2007 GMC Sierra Truck compliments of the...
Anne Plattsmier Jones has joined Teche Federal Bank as branch loan officer in the Opelousas office. Jones has 36 years of banking experience and has been a Notary Public since 1979. Teche also...
INDEST APPOINTED John Indest, executive vice president and COO of LHC Group Inc., has been appointed to serve as the Corporate Provider Section representative for the National Association for Home...
Our Lady Of Lourdes has named Andre Moreau as director of corporate development. Moreau has served Lourdes in a variety of different roles including decision support and managed care over the past 14...
Opelousas General Health System broke ground on a new Sleep Disorders Center in May. The center will double the size of the current facility and is located east of the hospital's parking tower. Gov....
MOVERS Bobby Crockett has joined Knight Well Services as Gulf Coast regional sales manager. Lafayette Education Foundation has hired Shanna Comeaux as its new program director. Russo Ad Group has...
Louis G. Mes of Lafayette Plastic Surgery Associates was named "Today's Hometown Doctor" in the latest issue of NewBeauty magazine. Mes was the only doctor from Louisiana featured in the...
**MOVERS Zoe Robicheaux recently joined The Training Source as director of business development. Dawn Gideon Picard has joined Southern Structures' department of professional engineers. Picard...
MOVERS Teche Federal Bank recently announced the addition of two new employees and a promotion. Keisha Gaspard Ryan has joined the Johnston Street branch as mortgage loan originator, and S. Michael...
The National League for Nursing has named UL Lafayette's College of Nursing and Allied Health Professions one of only four Centers of Excellence in Nursing Education in the United States. The...
MOVERS Jasmine B. Bertrand has joined Onebane Law Firm and will focus on oil and gas and business and commercial law. Erin E. Rossignol has joined the firm of Thibodaux, Hebert, Deshotels, Leblanc,...
Maudrey Stevens of Breaux Bridge will use her victory in Oscar Meyer's Win the Ride of Your Life contest to deliver toys to patients at Women's and Children's Hospital for Toys to...
MOVERS Jennifer Adcock has joined The Training Source. Adcock formerly managed the human resources department for Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans and is a certified professional in human...
MOVERS Safety Management Systems Inc. has named Michelle Dronet Schollian administrative assistant. Bill Phillips has been hired as a U.S. Tennis Association Southern Section tennis service...
HEALTH & MEDICAL Opelousas General Health System and the Opelousas/St. Landry Chamber of Commerce held an open house and Business After Hours to welcome Dr. Vikram "Vik" Parmar,...
MOVERS Dawn Justin has joined Abdalla's as a buyer for the Women's Ready to Wear, Contemporary and Petite departments. She replaces Janell Estilette, who will transition to a sales position. Kristie...
MOVERS Le Centre International de Lafayette announced the appointment of Monique Roberts as International Trade Development Specialist. Foster Marketing Communications has announced Tiffany Harris as...
MOVERS In Cleco's southern district, Steven Segura has been named manager of customer and community services, Ron Albarado as manager of distribution engineering and Dan Smith as manager of...
MOVERS Lizette Mouton has joined The Training Source as director of organizational and human resource development. The Boys & Girls Clubs of Acadiana's Vermilion Unit recently announced the hire...
MOVERS The Lafayette Consolidated Government Civil Services Board has hired Michael Sands as director of civil service. Superior Energy Services Inc. has appointed Ken Blanchard as president. Dean...
A quick look at your business and community news MOVERS IberiaBank has announced the appointment of Shannon Babin Phillips, Zach Martin and Stephanie Lenarduzzi as mortgage executives to its...
Vascular Surgeon Chris LaGraize appeared on KATC TV3 last month to speak about varicose veins and the benefits of the VNUS Closure. Offered at Lafayette General, VNUS Closure can remove varicose...
A quick look at your business and community news. MOVERS Mike Carson Construction announced the appointment of Connie Landry as marketing director. Holli G. Thibodeaux has been named marketing...