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Iberia Medical Center Is a Birth Ready Facility…Once Again

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Iberia Medical Center Is a Birth Ready Facility…Once Again

March 26, 2025

The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) and the Louisiana Perinatal Quality Collaborative (LaPQC) have once again named Iberia Medical Center as a Birth Ready hospital. This recognition is awarded to hospitals that have committed to quality improvement practices aimed at improving birth outcomes for mothers in Louisiana.


As a ‘Birth Ready’ facility, Iberia Medical Center is equipped to detect complications early on and improve outcomes for both mothers and babies. For over 60 years, Iberia Medical Center has delivered quality care to expecting mothers in the community. This recognition acknowledges evidence-based practices that contribute to the overall wellbeing of mothers and babies.


“This program recognition is important to not only the hospital, but the community as well. Our commitment to implementing policies and procedures that allow us to detect and treat conditions before they become life threatening is something we prioritize as the leading healthcare provider in the community” says Dionne Viator, CEO.


This award marks the third year in a row that Iberia Medical has achieved this recognition.

 

IMC Food Pantry in Jeanerette

Iberia Medical Center Community Food Pantry: Jeanerette. It was a beautiful day to formally dedicate and bless the new IMC food pantry at the Jeanerette Rural Health Clinic. Elected officials, Greater Iberia Chamber of Commerce representatives, hospital leadership, clinic staff and patients gathered this morning for the event.


Dionne Viator, IMC CEO, shared some sobering facts about hunger during opening remarks: 


  • 44 million people in the United States are food insecure including 13 million children.  

  • People experience food insecurity in every community regardless of size or location.

  • Hunger can have serious health consequences.


Deacon Roland Jeanlouis, IMC Board of Commissioners President, offered the formal blessing and inspirational words to live by. 


 The IMC Community Food Pantry was over a year in the making, and was made a priority by hospital administration because of the initiative's alignment with the hospital's mission.

 

 Funds for the pantry were provided in part, by the IMC Foundation. The Berry Family provided funding, fabrication and installation of the pantry.  


The pantry is located in front of the Jeanerette Rural Health Clinic, 217 Bourg Street, and provides non-perishable food items and personal care items to persons in need.  

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