The St. Charles Parish Hospitals Board met on January 8, 2026, at 5:00 PM. The meeting included recognitions, unanimous approval of multiple motions, reports on quality, patient experience, and finances, as well as updates on hospital operations and community support. No public comments were made during the public hearing.
Good afternoon. The St. Charles Parish Hospitals Board meeting is now called to order. Let's all freeze stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance. Underground, indivisible. Okay. Okay. Okay. Um, let the record state that Mr. Timmy Viao and Miss Karen Raymond and myself, Pamela Smith are present. This is a public hearing. Anyone wishing to address the board on any of today's agenda items may come forward at this time. This is a public hearing. Anyone wishing to address the board on any of today's agenda items for please come forward. This is a public hearing. Anyone wishing to address the board on any of the agenda items for today, please come forward. Seeing none, public hearing is closed. Okay. Special recognition. Thank you, Madam Chairwoman. Um, for to start us off, I'd like to do a little special recognition of our employee of the month. So I'd like to ask Ms. Renee to come up front and um, so um special uh for November and our employee of the month, um Rishan Renee was selected. Um, I have the opportunity to to I don't say work with you, um serve alongside with you, but one of the things that I have noticed is that uh your dedication to your patients is constant. Um that I know talking with all of the team members that work with you say how focused you are on your patients and how much you care about them. So um I know uh you want to tell a little of a story about the nomination, but uh I just want to say thank you for everything that you do for um the patients that you take care of are special and need somebody special to take care of them and I really appreciate everything that you do for them. Go ahead. All right, I'll just do I wrote just a little something. So Renee has been at St. Charles for seven years, and she has been a steady source of compassion, skill, and hope for our patients and team on the behavioral health unit. She brings exceptional empathy to even the most complex cases, building trust with patients, making them feel genuinely cared for. Renee demonstrates her dedication for growth and excellence as she actively is working towards her independent clinical licensure. As a colleague, Renee is equally remarkable, supportive, dependable, and always willing to step in when the team needs her. She mentors new staff, shares her knowledge generously, and takes on extra responsibilities with grace and humility. Renee truly embodies the Oshner values and makes our department better every day, and she is deeply deserving of this recognition as employee of the month for November. Congratulations. I'd like to just say thank you to Allegra for the nomination. She's uh been a great supervisor and mentor for me as well as the rest of my co-workers. I don't think I would be up here without working with a great team. So thank y'all. Thank you. And I can say that I personally have had the experience of working clinically side by side with Renee, and it was phenomenal. So second, I'd like to ask Miss uh Ori to come up front. Okay. And uh Ori was selected as our leader of the quarter for Q3 2025. Umri's done an amazing job uh since the day she stepped on the unit and has also been filling in some shoes here lately with uh Robbie taking on a new role, but um I know Jared wanna had some things he wanted to say. So Ori had a uh available book written the nominated on the just really everything that Ori does really just really need to be a fruit leader um and her unwavering positive attitudes who smile she has that she breaks it every day, but uh she rounds on our patients every day to make sure that they're getting wonderful care. She rounds on her staff uh make sure that her staff's doing well. Um she's willing to jump in and help us at least just last week. We were really busy before you can jump in with a couple of patients and state lady on our shoulders to make sure that uh patients were taken care of, and that's what we could say.