Lafayette Care Center Nursing Home

Lafayette

Where?: Lafayette Community Health Care Clinic is located at 1317 Jefferson Street
in Lafayette.

What?: Lafayette Community Health Care Clinic is a non-profit organization the provides quality outpatient health care for the eligible working uninsured.

Why?: The primary goal of this effort is to make basic healthcare services accessible to lower income working Lafayette Parish residents so that they will remain healthy enough to maintain their jobs, their homes, and their independence.

When?: The clinic provides evening and morning services on specific days during the week, year round.

Who?: Founded in 1992 by St. Barnabas parishioner Dr. Terry Cromwell, the clinic is governed by a 20 member of Board of Directors and Advisors. Jeanette Alcon has held the Executive Director’s position since 1994. Saint Barnabas has provided meals once per month to the evening medical volunteers since the clinics inception. Parishioners involved in this ministry are: Jerry Ernest, Quinten Drontet, Marilyn Smith, BrendaWells, Cindy Guillory, Sue and Wayne Anderson, Becca Rials, Sarah LeBlanc, Amelie Storment, Laura Broussard, Melissa and Remi Coco, Barbara Savoie, Sharon Bakay, Pam Armbruster, Teri Stevenson, Eileen Thomas, April Fontana, Mary Catherine Hager, Julie LaFleur, Barbara Lambert and Tammy Couvilion.

Monthly: Headed by parishioner Barbara Lambert, volunteers from Saint Barnabas bring dinner to the clinic to feed volunteers once a month.