Alena Maschke
Reporter at The Acadiana Advocate
Reporter at The Current Media
Health reporter @thecurrentlaf & @theadvocateaca. Formerly: @longbeachpost @mydesert @ndn. 🖤 data. @columbiajourn '17.
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2 weeks ago |
thecurrentla.com | Alena Maschke
Christmas, family barbecues, quinceañeras — Jorge Rojas Perez was there and happy to be. “He’s a great dancer, a really beautiful person,” Graciela Perez says of her brother-in-law. “He’s like a boy, he’s never going to grow up,” says her husband, Pedro Perez, with the loving scorn of an older brother. In his 20s, Jorge followed his older brother from Mexico to Acadiana two decades ago to escape the threat of violence in their hometown.
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1 month ago |
thecurrentla.com | Alena Maschke
On Sunday, facing the gusts of an especially breezy afternoon, family members and friends of people who lost their lives to overdoses huddled in small clusters on a slope in Girard Park. On banners and T-shirts, they carried with them pictures and names of the Louisiana victims of the nation’s opioid epidemic. Making visible that epidemic’s toll has been among the primary objectives of Millie Mattered, the organization behind Sunday’s gathering.
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1 month ago |
theadvocate.com | Alena Maschke
Louisianans rarely turn down an opportunity to celebrate, but in light of a recent measles outbreak in Texas, experts warn parents against “measles parties,” should infections spread to Louisiana. “In the simplest of terms, it’s an absolutely horrible idea,” said Dr. Kali Broussard, a pediatrician and pediatric disease specialist with Our Lady of Lourdes Children’s Health who runs a practice in Maurice.
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1 month ago |
theadvocate.com | Alena Maschke
On Monday, representatives from Acadiana’s two largest hospital systems, Ochsner Lafayette General and Our Lady of Lourdes, convened a meeting of local leaders in the health and social services sector. The hospital systems announced the results of a mandatory Community Health Needs Assessment and the areas of need they plan to focus on over the next three years.
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1 month ago |
theadvocate.com | Alena Maschke
On Monday, representatives from Acadiana’s two largest hospital systems, Ochsner Lafayette General and Our Lady of Lourdes, convened a meeting of local leaders in the health and social services sector. The hospital systems announced the results of a mandatory Community Health Needs Assessment and the areas of need they plan to focus on over the next three years.
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