The Franciscan Health Auxiliary Lafayette held its annual membership meeting in December 2016. During the meeting the following officers were elected for the 2018 year:
– Jim Davies, president: Davies volunteers in the Outpatient Center at Franciscan Health Lafayette East. He previously served as an Auxiliary member-at-large and Red Coat Chair.
– Randall Toleman, vice president: Toleman volunteers in the Franciscan Health Gift Shops. He previously served as an Auxiliary member-at-large.
– Ellen Reppert, treasurer: Reppert volunteers at the gift shops at Franciscan Health and also volunteers in the Medical Staff Services office.
– Judy Cline, recording secretary: Cline volunteers in the Franciscan Health Gift Shops. She has previously served as an Auxiliary member-at-large.
– Roberta “Bobbie” Kubat, corresponding secretary: Kubat volunteers in the gift shop at Franciscan Health Lafayette East.
For more information on the Franciscan Health Auxiliary Lafayette or how to join, please call Lisa Green, Volunteer Services coordinator, at (765) 502-4249 or e-mail lisa.green@franciscanalliance.org.
Franciscan Health is a member of Mishawaka, Ind.-based Franciscan Alliance, one of the largest Catholic healthcare systems in the Midwest with 14 growing hospitals, approximately 20,000 employees and a number of nationally recognized Centers of Healthcare Excellence. Franciscan Health includes Franciscan Health Lafayette East, Lafayette Central, Crawfordsville and Rensselaer, Franciscan Physician Network with offices in Lafayette, West Lafayette, Monticello, Crawfordsville and Rensselaer, and the St. Elizabeth School of Nursing.
Franciscan Health is accredited by Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program, the Community Health Accreditation Program, the College of American Pathologists, the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation, American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer, the Society of Cardiovascular Patient Care for Heart Failure and the Center of Excellence in Minimally Invasive Gynecology. The Franciscan Health Lafayette East Trauma Center has received its Level III verification from the Verification Review Committee and the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons. Franciscan Health is also a recipient of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Silver Performance Achievement Award, and its paramedic program has received programmatic accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). The St. Elizabeth School of Nursing is approved by the Indiana State Board of Nursing and nationally accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing (ACEN). For more information, please visit FranciscanHealth.org and FranciscanAlliance.org.
