The recipient entity's physical address:
           8585 Picardy Ave
Baton Rouge, LA 70809

The recipient entity's mailing address (if different):
           8585 Picardy Ave
Baton Rouge, LA 70809

Type of Entity (for instance, a nonprofit corporation):  Non-Profit Corporation

If the entity is a corporation, list the names of the incorporators:
          Baton Rouge General Medical Center (BRGMC) is a community-owned 501c3 charitable organization. It is a successor corporation to Baton Rouge General Hospital, now called General Health System, which is also a 501c3 charitable organization. General Health System is the original incorporator of BRGMC.

The last four digits of the entity's taxpayer ID number:  5017

What is the dollar amount of the request?  $1,300,000

What type of request is this?  Capital Outlay Appropriation

Is this entity in good standing with the Secretary of State?  Yes

Provide the name of each member of the recipient entity's governing board and officers:
           Venkat Banda, MD
Hospital Medicine Group
3600 Florida Boulevard
Baton Rouge, LA 70806

Charles D’Agostino
Executive Director, LSU innovation Park
& The Louisiana Business & Technology Center
8000 Innovation Park Drive
Building 3000
Baton Rouge, LA 70820

Jacques de la Bretonne
11297 Highland Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70810

Gwen Hamilton
2141 Duncan Drive
Baton Rouge, LA 70802

Margaret Hart
900 West Harts Mill Lane
Baton Rouge, LA 70808


Brian A. Jackson
Chief Judge
U.S. District Court – Middle District of Louisiana
777 Florida Street, Suite 375
Baton Rouge, LA 70801

Joseph Juban
1005 Carrolton Ave
Baton Rouge, LA 70806

Roy Kadair, MD
Baton Rouge Clinic
7373 Perkins Road
Baton Rouge, LA 70809

Scott Kirkpatrick
8440 Jefferson Highway
Suite 301
Baton Rouge, LA 70809

Phyllis McLaurin, Chairperson
12271 Myers Park Avenue
Baton Rouge, LA 70810-4858

Louis Minsky, MD
8585 Picardy Avenue
Suite 513
Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Isabelina Nahmens, PhD
Associate Professor
Louisiana State University
3128 Patrick F. Taylor Building
Baton Rouge, LA 70803

Andrew Olinde, MD
8888 Summa Avenue
3rd Floor
Baton Rouge, LA 70809

Ed Starns
Postlethwaite & Netterville
8550 United Plaza Blvd, Suite 1001
Baton Rouge, LA 70809

Edgardo Tenreiro
President and Chief Executive Officer
Baton Rouge General Medical Center
8585 Picardy Avenue
Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Rev. Ronnie Williams
Camelot College
2618 Wooddale Boulevard
Suite A
Baton Rouge, LA 70805

Kendall Johnson, Chief Financial Officer
16233 Woodville Drive
Prairieville LA 70769

Stephen Mumford, Chief Operating Officer
13630 Robin Ridge Drive
Baton Rouge LA 70810

Provide a summary of the project or program:
           BRG requests funding to support the expansion of its Regional Burn Center, which is embarking on plans to optimize the patient and family experience - from the time of the emergency, throughout intensive care, treatment, rehabilitation, recovery and survivorship. The plans include doubling the size of our burn ICU rooms to create more room for families and equipment, increasing the size of the tub room to allow for better temperature control and more capacity to do in-room procedures, adding new step-down room for patients, adding a playroom for children, creating new space for fast-track patients who come in through the ER, and renovating the outpatient rehab gym and treatment center where patients continue their recovery after discharge.

What is the budget relative to the project for which funding is requested?:
          Salaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . $0
          Professional Services. . . $715,000
          Contracts . . . . . . . . . . . $0
          Acquisitions . . . . . . . . . $0
          Major Repairs . . . . . . . $7,150,000
          Operating Services. . . . $0
          Other Charges. . . . . . . $0

Does your organization have any outstanding audit issues or findings?  No

If 'Yes' is your organization working with the appropriate governmental agencies to resolve those issues or findings?
          

What is the entity's public purpose, sought to be achieved through the use of state monies?
          One of only 68 verified burn centers in the U.S., Baton Rouge General's Regional Burn Center (RBC) provides the highest level of care for burn patients from emergency through rehabilitation. The RBC provides advanced, comprehensive burn care to more than 90% of the region’s patients who have suffered some of life’s most tragic accidents. The Center is housed at Baton Rouge General, in the area’s only A-rated hospital for patient safety for eight years running (The LeapFrog Group, 2012-2019) and in a facility ranked among the top 5% of safest hospitals in the country (Healthgrades, 2016, 2017, 2018) and the top 2% of hospitals in the country for overall medical care
(Carechex, 2016, 2017). Nestled along Baton Rouge’s 1-10/12 interstate in the heart of the petrochemical corridor, with no other
verified regional burn center equipped to provide this level of care within a 300 mile radius, the majority of its patients have suffered
from flame, scaled, electrical or petrochemical/industrial accidents, and more than 45% of burn center patients have Medicaid.

What are the goals and objectives for achieving such purpose?
          BRG's goal is to optimize the experience for burn patients and their families. Burn patients are routinely in the hospital for 45 days or more, and their care is highly specialized, requiring ongoing surgical care, nutritional support, social services and therapeutic interventions. Our plans include doubling the size of our burn ICU rooms to create more room for families and equipment, increasing the size of the tub room to allow for better temperature control and more capacity to do in-room procedures, adding new step-down room for patients, adding a playroom for children, creating new space for fast-track patients who come in through the ER, and renovating the outpatient rehab gym and treatment center where patients continue their recovery after discharge.

What is the proposed length of time estimated by the entity to accomplish the purpose?
           12-18 months

If any elected or appointed state official or an immediate family member of such an official is an officer, director, trustee, or employee of the recipient entity who receives compensation or holds any ownership interest therein:
     (a) If an elected or appointed state official, the name and address of the official and the office held by such person:
                
    
     (b) If an immediate family member of an elected or appointed state official, the name and address of such person; the name, address, and office of the official to whom the person is related; and the nature of the relationship:
                 Tisha Payne (58320 IRION STREET PLAQUEMINE, LA 70764) is an employee married to Kenneth Payne, Police Chief of the City of Plaquemine

     (c) The percentage of the official's or immediate family member's ownership interest in the recipient entity, if any:
                

     (d) The position, if any, held by the official or immediate family member in the recipient entity:
                  Clinic Manager

If the recipient entity has a contract with any elected or appointed state official or an immediate family member of such an official or with the state or any political subdivision of the state:
(a) If the contract is with an elected or appointed state official, provide the name and address of the official and the office held by such person: 
               

(b) If the contract is with an immediate family member of an elected or appointed state official:
          Provide the name and address of such person:
              

          Provide the name, address, and office of the official to whom the person is related:
               

          What is the nature of the relationship? 

(c) If the contract is with the state or a political subdivision of the state, provide the name and address of the state entity or political subdivision of the state:
                

(d) The nature of the contract, including a description of the goods or services provided or to be provided pursuant to the contract:
               


Contact Information
name:  Meghan Parrish 
                                       address:  8490 Picardy Ave, Suite 500A
Baton Rouge, LA 70809
                                       phone:  225-281-6017
                                       fax: 
                                       e-mail:  meghan.parrish@brgeneral.org
                                       relationship to entity:  Vice President of Marketing