KEEPING THE ORCHESTRA AFLOAT PERFORMING ON FLOATING STAGE WITH HELP OF A LOCAL BUSINESSMAN
April 30, 2007Jessie Darcey
May 2, 2007
Terrebonne General Medical Center in Houma has long supported area programs that promote healthier living, and which aid the community generally.
The hospital, which is more than 50 years old, sponsors the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life and the 5K Run for Excellence & Cajun Food Fest, benefiting the Terrebonne Foundation for Academic Excellence.
On Thursday, TGMC announced the formation of a program that promises to make the hospital’s outreach efforts more efficient and effective.
Team Terrebonne, the name of the new initiative, was started mainly by 60 TGMC employees (who are called “ambassadors”) in early February as a way to coordinate the work they do for the community.
TGMC President and CEO Phyllis Peoples unveiled Team Terrebonne’s logo and mission statement Thursday afternoon in a ceremony at the hospital’s Women’s Center attended by many of Team Terrebonne’s ambassadors.
The teal-colored logo shows two hands shaking. The mission statement asserts the group’s devotion “to improving quality of life and promoting healthy lifestyles in our community.”
As the idea of Team Terrebonne developed, the new group brought in TGMC administrators and physicians as members.
“We collectively came up with the concept of Team Terrebonne,” Peoples said.
The group offers a way to “consolidate our efforts,” she said. “Employees, board members, volunteers, and physicians put in time” on community outreach.
Through Team Terrebonne, parish residents “can identify” more easily “how much we give back to the community,” she said.
“Team Terrebonne is volunteering and giving back to the community,” she said.
Joan Adams, an ambassador and registered nurse at TGMC in the post-anesthesia care unit who spoke at the ceremony, said, “We all worked well together.”
“Teal has always been a color associated with TGMC,” she said. “We decided on a logo, narrowed it down. We thought teal, the hands together, was the best way to signify our (connection) to the community.”
Anne Bateo, a representative of the American Cancer Society, spoke at the ceremony, offering “big thanks to TGMC” for the hospital’s support of the ACS fundraiser Relay for Life walking/running event, and the ACS’s Look Good…Feel Better program, which “helps women offset appearance-related changes from cancer treatment,” according to the web site of the program’s co-sponsor, the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association.
Also, Yolanda Trahan, executive director of the Houma-based Terrebonne Foundation for Academic Excellence, an organization which provides grants to teachers in Terrebonne Parish schools, thanked TGMC for its sponsorship of the 5K Run for Excellence & Cajun Food Fest to be held Saturday, May 12, in Downtown Houma.
“Team Terrebonne’s first major community initiative will be…the TGMC 5K Run for Excellence which TGMC volunteers are supporting in a variety of ways,” according to a news release.
“Peoples estimates that the Team will be involved in as many as 30 major civic, charitable and educational projects during 2007,” the release states.
