Old BBQ pit at Iberia Medical Center restored by local companies
Courtesy of Richard Howell
and last updated 2021-01-25 21:25:04-05
An old and well loved BBQ pit at Iberia Medical Center is back home after a major restoration project.
Richard Howell II, CRNA returned to his hometown hospital Iberia Medical Center for employment. He says that everything seemed mostly the same, expect for the BBQ pit he remembered on the property. He says it had seen better days.
That pit, Howell recalls, has been a fixture of the hospital for around 30 years.
Howell and Chuck Dawson, Director of Surgical Services, set out to make the pit usable last year in hopes of cooking for the Operating Room staff as reward for their handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. On social media, Howell searched for someone who could make a few small on-site repairs. That request would lead to a full restoration of this long lived and long loved hospital icon.