SLS 22RS-3183 ORIGINAL
2022 Regular Session
SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 137
BY SENATOR BOUDREAUX
COMMENDATIONS. Commends Ginger Myers on receiving honorary doctorate from UL-
Lafayette and recognizes her for her work with the LCH Group.
1 A RESOLUTION
2 To commend Ginger Myers on receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of
3 Louisiana-Lafayette and to recognize her for her work with the LHC Group.
4 WHEREAS, Ginger Myers was awarded an honorary doctorate of nursing practice
5 during the University of Louisiana-Lafayette's Spring 2022 commencement ceremonies; and
6 WHEREAS, Ginger Myers is a nurse, a community leader, a businesswoman, and
7 a philanthropist; and
8 WHEREAS, in 1994, Myers cofounded the Lafayette-based LHC Group as a single
9 freestanding home health agency in rural St. Landry Parish; and
10 WHEREAS, the LHC Group was established in recognition of the need for greater
11 access to health care among aging, rural residents; and
12 WHEREAS, the LHC Group has grown and provides high quality care to patients
13 through home health, hospice, home- and community-based services, and facility-based care;
14 and
15 WHEREAS, Ginger Myers was the first nurse on staff with the LHC Group and she
16 has worked in a range of nursing and administrative roles in St. Landry Parish for more than
17 two decades; and
18 WHEREAS, Myers was active in coordinating one of Louisiana's first rural health
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1 clinics and in opening the first ophthalmologic surgery center in Acadiana; and
2 WHEREAS, in early 2022, the University of Louisiana-Lafayette renamed the
3 College of Nursing and Health Sciences Department as the LHC Group-Myers School of
4 Nursing.
5 THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
6 does hereby commend Ginger Myers on receiving an honorary doctorate from the University
7 of Louisiana-Lafayette and recognizes her for her work with the LHC Group
8 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
9 Ginger Myers.
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Kathy Liberty.
DIGEST
SR 137 Original 2022 Regular Session Boudreaux
Commends Ginger Myers on receiving an honorary doctorate from UL-Lafayette and to
recognize her for her work with the LHC Group.
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