Students at Our Lady Of Prompt Succor School Impact Life

Each spring the students and faculty of Our Lady of Prompt Succor School (OLPS) come together to partner with CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital’s Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) departments to provide a combination of charitable care, world class equipment and research driven treatments to the poor and under served children of Central Louisiana.

Jackie Witcher who serves as the OLPS librarian combines their Book Fair with a CMN Band Sale.  Through the coordination of students and staff, Jackie collects $1 or more per CMN wrist band.

Jackie recently presented Kellie Flynn Freebeck, CHRISTUS Cabrini’s CMN Program Manager, a check on behalf of the OLPS students and staff for $1,020.00.

Those funds will be used in a combination of children’s departments.  One of those CMN departments at Cabrini is their 17 School Based Health Centers (SBHC) which are all based in rural areas where there is a lower income demographic.  Students at these rural SBHC schools receive free health care services, blood work, prescriptions, shots, testing, mental health counseling, and vaccinations due to the funds donated by the OLPS families and teachers. This is the tip of the iceberg though.  Donated CMN funds will also be used to help the tiniest of lives in Cabrini’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Pediatric Therapy Center.

CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital is the only not-for-profit hospital system in Central Louisiana and is in great need of these CMN funds in order to sustain life saving treatments and services to the smallest members of the community.  Without CMN donations, Cabrini would not be a leader in children’s health care.  Without CMN donations, the smallest set of twins in the world for the year 2000 would not have been transported to the Cabrini NICU Women’s and Children’s Wing.  The Smith twins are now surviving and thriving beautifully at the age of 18 and are grateful to Cabrini’s CMN-funded NICU for being alive today.

These achievements would not be possible without the generosity of families and staff like those at OLPS School!