Northwest Louisiana hospitals recount wintry week, thankful for community support Hardworking staff at St. Mary Medical Center (Source: Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport) By Chandler Watkins | February 19, 2021 at 1:21 PM CST - Updated February 19 at 10:15 PM
SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - It has been a tough week for many across the ArkLaTex, from residents to hospitals.
“I don’t think we could have anticipated what kind of week this was going to be,” Chris Mangin, CEO of Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport - St. Mary Medical Center, said. “It’s been a long week. It’s been good from the standpoint of having heat, water, but we’ve had to do it with a little more ingenuity than we thought we would have.”
Shreveport company comes to the aid of northwest Louisiana hospitals CNC Oilfield Services employees providing water to NWLA hospitals to keep patients and staff warm. (Source: Colton Sanders) By Chandler Watkins | February 18, 2021 at 1:59 PM CST - Updated February 18 at 9:41 PM
Colton Sanders, James Caskey, Kris Cooper, Jamie Burford, and Brain Sneed of CNC Oilfield Services in Shreveport have been using tankers to get water to CHRISTUS Health Shreveport-Bossier, Ochsner LSU Health Systems, and the Willis-Knighton Health System. Louisiana National Guard arrives at Willis-Knighton (Source: Willis-Knighton Health System)
“I got a phone call yesterday morning and was asked if I could help out the water situation at the hospitals,” Sanders said. “At this point, we had shut down operations. I thought if I had someone in one of the hospitals I would want to help out. I threw my clothes on and went and got in a truck, rallied up some of our other guys who said wherever