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Girls on the Run New Orleans is using grant funds to expand the program and improve health outcomes for young girls across the Crescent City.

The LWCC Foundation has awarded 10 grants through Louisiana Well Again: Phase 3. Learn more about who’s changing healthcare for all of Louisiana.

Union General is a two-time Louisiana Well Again grant recipient, that is making positive strides in healthcare, from PPE to expanded telehealth programs.

The LWCC Foundation is working to address the root issues of the vulnerabilities by providing funding for existing programs and initiatives, research, or new innovations that demonstrate the ability of an organization to address the vulnerabilities that threaten the health and safety of our citizens

Support from the LWCC Foundation’s Louisiana Well Again: COVID-19 Response Program, allowed the hospital to create a unique place of respite for hospital employees

With the help of grant money from the LWCC Foundation’s Louisiana Well Again: COVID-19 Response Program, the hospital worked with Sysco to provide turkeys for the entire hospital staff.

With the help of grant money from the LWCC Foundation’s Louisiana Well Again: COVID-19 Response Program and other community donors, Baton Rouge General was able to respond to the needs of the hospital during the height of the pandemic.

The timing could not have been better for Union General Hospital when it learned earlier this summer that it was one of 24 hospitals to receive a LWCC Foundation grant in support of COVID-19 frontline healthcare workers.

The grants make up the second phase of the foundation’s Louisiana Well Again: COVID-19 Response Package, a $1.1 million, three-phase grants and gifts package dedicated to helping Louisiana respond to and recover from the pandemic.