Donald and Frances Zadeck, of the Zadeck Family Foundation, have made a donation of $150,000 to establish an endowed fund benefiting the new Center for Brain Health at LSU Health Shreveport.(Photo: Submitted)
Blue Cross Foundation
to award grants
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana Foundation is seeking nominations for the 2018 Angel Award through April 13. Now in its 24th year, The Angel Award program recognizes Louisiana volunteers who perform extraordinary work for children in need. The Foundation will make a $20,000 grant to the Louisiana-based charity represented by each honoree.
To nominate someone, visit www.bcbslafoundation.org/nominate for forms and more information.
Nomination packets are also available by calling toll-free (888) 219-BLUE (2583) or email [email protected]. Nominators are encouraged to send supplemental information in support of the nomination, including testimonial letters, brochures, news articles, photos and videos (these materials cannot be returned.)
Live Oak recieves 5-star rating
The Health Center at Live Oak, The Oaks of Louisiana’s skilled nursing residence, has received an overall 5-star rating from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. It is the highest rating awarded, says Mary Ann Wade, Health Center administrator.
The rating system was designed to help consumers, their families and caregivers compare nursing homes more easily. Overall ratings are the results of individual ratings in the areas of Health inspections, staffing, quality measures and surveys.
Surveyors follow a checklist of areas to examine and inspections are conducted every year.
Health Center at Live Oak is a member of the Louisiana Nursing Home Association and is operated by Willis-Knighton Health System, a not-for-profit health system. For more information, call (318) 212-OAKS (6257) or visit oaksofla.com.
BPCC program receives international award
The American Association of University Administrators has voted BPCC’s Open Campus open educational resource program as this year’s recipient of its 2018 Nikolai Khaladjan International Award for Innovation in Higher Education.
In the history of the Khaladjan award, BPCC is the first community college to be awarded the honor. The award will be presented June 8 at AAUA’s annual Leadership Seminar in Philadelphia.
The Khaladjan recognizes innovative teaching methods; methods which widen access to education; efficient use of teaching resources; wide use of learning technology; and efforts that accelerate or deepen student learning.
Open Campus is a cross-disciplinary developmental series of free, online non-credit courses, offering developmental courses ahead of placement testing and for those enrolled in credit-bearing coursework. The courses are actual BPCC instructors who are videoed teaching actual modules.
For more information on BPCC’s Open Campus initiative, visit www.bpcc.edu/opencampus or contact Allison Martin at [email protected].
ORDA funds five
North La. researchers
Five North Louisiana researchers have been funded a total of $200,000 in the second cycle of the Office for Research Development and Administration’s Seed Funding Program.
Awardees are from the University of Louisiana at Monroe, LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport and Louisiana Tech University.
The funding is intended to provide support for investigators to generate preliminary data and apply for extramural funding from government and/or private sources. Projects were peer reviewed by out-of-state reviewers and then by BRF’s internal committee.
This cycle’s focus area was neuroscience/neuroengineering, neuroinformatics and aging. ORDA’s first seed funding cycle, awarded in February of 2017, was focused in Neuroscience/Neuroengineering and Aging.
Locally, at LSUHSCS, $50,000 was awarded to J. Steven Alexander, Ph.D., professor, molecular & cellular physiology, for the project Pilot alpha-syn glymphatic Tau stasis in experimental Parkinson’s Disease.
Foundation establishes endowment at LSU Health
The Zadeck Family Foundation has made a donation of $150,000 to establish an endowed fund benefiting the new Center for Brain Health at LSU Health Shreveport. The donation will be used to establish an endowed fund known as the “Zadeck Family Foundation Endowment for Neuroscience Research.”
The endowment’s purpose will be to make intramural grant funding available for researchers associated with the Center for Brain Health, with the intent to support CBH researchers in their efforts to secure long-term sources of research funding. Both basic science researchers and clinical science researchers will be supported through the endowment.
The Center for Brain Health offers a comprehensive and multidisciplinary approach to treating brain disorders and expands neuroscience research at LSUHS, bringing together both clinicians and researchers.
LSU Health Shreveport Chancellor G. E. Ghali expressed his personal appreciation to the Zadeck Family for their continued and generous support of LSU Health Shreveport.
Two businesses donate
to the Salvation Army
A business relationship between Enterprise Rent-a-Car in Shreveport and Metro Aviation has garnered a $1,500 donation for The Salvation Army of Northwest Louisiana.
Once a year, employees of Enterprise Rent-a-Car submit the name of a nonprofit in their community to the Enterprise Holdings Foundation for consideration of a donation up to $1,500. This year, local employees turned to one of their top clients, Metro Aviation, to find out which local nonprofit they support. Metro Aviation submitted The Salvation Army of Northwest Louisiana.
The full amount of $1,500 was approved for The Salvation Army.
BPCC nursing program recognized
Bossier Parish Community College is proud to announce its Nursing Program’s fall 2017 numbers.
The BPCC Nursing Program has a 100% employment rate for fall 2017 graduates and a National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX)-RN pass rate of 95.89% for fall 2017 graduates. The program is also second place in the United States for 2017 in NCLEX-RN education programs with a score of 92.93%, which is 5.08% above the national average of 87.85%.
In 2010, Bossier Parish Community College received approval from the Louisiana State Board of Nursing and the Board of Regents to offer the Associate of Science Degree in Nursing. Since that time, many students have declared nursing as their major course of study. There were 24 nursing graduates in the fall 2017 class.
For more information on the BPCC Nursing Program, contact the Division of Science, Nursing, and Allied Health at (318) 678-6080.
Real estate group plans meeting
The Shreveport Bossier Real Estate Investors Association will meet at 6 p.m. March 19 at Red River Brewing Company, 1200 Marshall St., Shreveport.
District 10 Caddo Commissioner Mario Chavez will give an update on the commission, and SBREI will hold a planning session.
There is no cost to attend. For more information, call 934-3125.
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