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After months of pressure for Prevost Memorial Hospital officials to be more responsive to the community's health-care needs, the Ascension Parish Council plans to consider Tuesday night whether to replace
ASCENSION PARISH - Three plots were narrowed down to one in the running for the next animal shelter in Ascension Parish. The three locations considered were an eight acres plot next to the Louisiana Flea Market, a 14 acres plot at the corner of Airline Highway and Roddy Road, and a six acres lot near Highway 44 and Black Bayou Road.
A task force including executives from major hospitals and former top state officials will dive into how to improve health care on Ascension Parish's poverty-stricken west bank.
Several speakers addressed the Ascension Parish Council for nearly an hour concerning the future of Prevost Memorial Hospital in Donaldsonville before the Sept. 7 meeting ended due to a lack of quorum.
Three members of the Ascension Parish Council were unopposed, while Ascension Parish President Clint Cointment drew two challengers as the qualifying period for the Oct. 14 election closed in the afternoon Aug. 10.