Region hospitals earn champ award

Three regional hospitals - of a total of 18 nationwide - were recognized with the Price Transparency Champion Award from PatientRightsAdvocate.org. 

Those regional hospitals include Baton Rouge General, St. Tammany Parish Hospital of Covington and Grandview Medical Center of Birmingham, Ala. 

The award recognizes U.S. hospitals and hospital systems for their commitment to fully complying with federal price transparency requirements. 

The award is dedicated to ushering in systemwide transparency through advocacy, testimony, media, legal research and grassroots campaigns. 

Reade is La. entrepreneur of year

Christopher Reade has been named the 2023 Marshall Klein Entrepreneur of the Year Award by the Louisiana chapter of Entrepreneur’s Organization. 

Reade’s company, Carrollton Group, has 150+ employees, split up into sister-companies. His work with Carrollton Enterprise Services focuses on disaster recovery work, finance, insurance and healthcare operations in Louisiana and nationally. He moved his business to New Orleans in 2000. 

BR Diversity Star awards

The Baton Rouge Area Chamber recently presented its annual Diversity Star Award to DNA Workshop and Cox Communications. 

DNA Workshop, an architecture firm, was honored in the small business category. It was selected for its dedication to recruiting, hiring and developing a diverse group of individuals. Specific practices include percentage of diverse employees and commitment to addressing affordable housing. which disproportionately affects minority populations.

Cox Communications was honored in the large business category. Cox was selected for exceptional diversity, equity and inclusion practices within the company. Specific practices include its executive inclusion, diversity and aims to improve representation of people of color at the associate VP level by 5% and the representation of women at the director level by 2%. 

New VP for LSU facility, property oversight

Anzilla Gilmore is the new associate vice president for facility and property oversight at LSU. 

Gilmore comes to BR from Rice University, where she served as the interim associate VP of facilities, engineering and planning, and Fair Employment Practices (FEP) diversity and inclusion program director.

She has more than 23 years of experience in architecture, facilities planning and project management, and is a registered architect in Texas. 

Gilmore earned a bachelor's in architecture from Prairie View A&M; a master's in architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington; a graduate certificate in equality, diversity and inclusion from Boston College; and is a doctoral student in leadership and learning in organizations at Vanderbilt University. (NOLA.com 09/10/23)