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Regular Session, 2014
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 127
BY SENATOR CHABERT
COMMENDATIONS. To commend Dr. Frank Adams Riddick Jr. upon his impending
retirement as president of the South Louisiana Medical Associates Board of Directors and
to congratulate him for his lifetime of service to the medical community and the state of
Louisiana.
A RESOLUTION1
To commend Dr. Frank Adams Riddick Jr. upon his impending retirement as president of2
the South Louisiana Medical Associates Board of Directors and congratulate him for3
his lifetime of service to the medical community and the state of Louisiana.4
WHEREAS, Dr. Frank Riddick holds his undergraduate and medical degrees from5
Vanderbilt University, where he was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity, Phi Chi medical6
fraternity, and elected to Phi Beta Kappa and to Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical7
Society; and8
WHEREAS, Dr. Riddick furthered his medical education in internal medicine and9
endocrinology at the Barnes Hospital-Washington University Complex in St. Louis,10
Missouri; and 11
WHEREAS, he also attended the Program in Health Systems Management at the12
Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration; and13
WHEREAS, Dr. Riddick spent his entire career as both a doctor and administrator14
in Ochsner Health System affiliated institutions, and held positions as head of the Section15
of Endocrinology and Metabolic Diseases, medical director and chief executive officer of16
the Ochsner Clinic, chief executive officer of the Alton Ochsner Medical Foundation, and17
chief executive officer emeritus of the Ochsner Health System; and18 SR NO. 127
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WHEREAS, during Dr. Riddick's twenty-six years of leadership with Ochsner1
institutions, the professional staff quintupled in size to over five hundred physicians, and the2
health maintenance organization now has two hundred twenty-five thousand subscribers; and3
WHEREAS, nationally, Dr. Riddick has served as past president of the American4
College of Physician Executives, the American Group Practice Association, and the Society5
of Medical Administrators, and chair of the American Medical Association's Council on6
Medical Education and Council on Judicial and Ethical Affairs, while also obtaining the7
distinction of Master of the American College of Physicians, the American College of8
Endocrinology, as well as being designated a Distinguished Fellow of the American College9
of Physician Executives; and10
WHEREAS, Dr. Riddick has also served his community as a professor of clinical11
medicine at the Tulane University School of Medicine; and12
WHEREAS, Dr. Riddick served his country with active duty in the United States13
Army Medical Corps from 1955 through 1957 with the rank of captain and continued to14
serve in the United States Army Reserves until 1963, achieving the rank of major; and15
WHEREAS, Dr. Riddick has served his faith community as a Vestryman of Trinity16
Episcopal Church in New Orleans; and17
WHEREAS, Dr. Riddick is the beloved husband of Mary Belle Alston Riddick, as18
well as a beloved and revered father and grandfather; and19
WHEREAS, during his tenure as the medical director and chief executive officer of20
the Ochsner Clinic, then-state representative and later state senator Leonard J. Chabert21
approached Dr. Riddick about the possibility of having Ochsner staff the South Louisiana22
Medical Center charity hospital then under construction in Houma, Louisiana; and23
WHEREAS, Dr. Riddick saw this opportunity as mutually beneficial to Ochsner and24
its physician group, the Bayou Region, its indigent and working poor of the area, and agreed25
to staff the hospital; and26
WHEREAS, in response to this calling, Dr. Riddick formed the South Louisiana27
Medical Associates, an Ochsner-affiliated physician group to service the hospital; and28
WHEREAS, the bond between Senator Chabert and Dr. Riddick was instrumental29
in the launch of this new charity hospital and its unique public-private management30 SR NO. 127
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structure; and1
WHEREAS, under the leadership of Dr. Riddick, the South Louisiana Medical2
Center, now known as the Leonard J. Chabert Memorial Hospital, was one of the only3
charity hospitals in the state to generate significant patient revenue; and4
WHEREAS, the visionary model of a public-private partnership with significant5
patient revenue instituted by Dr. Riddick for this hospital served as a guiding light for other6
charity hospitals to emulate even to this day; and7
WHEREAS, in addition to his title of chief executive officer emeritus of the Ochsner8
Health System, Dr. Riddick is still actively serving as the president of the South Louisiana9
Medical Association's board of directors; and 10
WHEREAS, Dr. Riddick has recently announced his plans to retire from service. 11
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana12
does hereby commend Dr. Frank Adams Riddick Jr. upon his impending retirement as13
president of the South Louisiana Medical Associates Board of Directors and congratulate14
him for his lifetime of service to the medical community and the state of Louisiana.15
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to Dr.16
Frank Adams Riddick Jr.17
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Alan Miller.
DIGEST
Chabert SR No. 127
Commends Dr. Frank Adams Riddick Jr. upon his impending retirement as president of the
South Louisiana Medical Associates Board of Directors.