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By News Staff on Monday, June 23, 2025
Melancon discusses hospice and palliative care
  • MELANCON DISCUSSES HOSPICE CARE - Brandon Melancon, COO of Alliegiance Health Management, addressed the June 17, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club. Shown, from left, are Ashlyn Ortego, marketing director with Mercy Regional Medical Center; Ashley Fontenot, CEO of Mercy Regional Medical Center; Melancon; and Rotary President Bob Manuel (right). (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)
    MELANCON DISCUSSES HOSPICE CARE - Brandon Melancon, COO of Alliegiance Health Management, addressed the June 17, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club. Shown, from left, are Ashlyn Ortego, marketing director with Mercy Regional Medical Center; Ashley Fontenot, CEO of Mercy Regional Medical Center; Melancon; and Rotary President Bob Manuel (right). (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)
    By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor Rotarian Ashlyn Ortego invited Brandon Melancon, COO of Allegiance Health Management, to address the June 17, meeting of the Ville Platte Rotary Club about hospice and palliative care. A registered nurse by trade, Melancon worked as a trauma nurse in the emergency department in Lafayette and later transitioned to post acute, home health, hospice and palliat...

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