Highlights from our September 11, 2025 Healers Event:

The LSU Health Sciences Foundation (LSUHS Foundation) hosted the 14th annual An Evening for Healers on Thursday, September 11, at the Shreveport Convention Center. The event raises essential funds to help LSU Health Shreveport (LSUHS) to recruit top-tier faculty, invest in cutting-edge equipment, and enhance student programs and scholarships across its three schools. Over the past 14 years, the event has raised more than $3.5 million to support LSU Health Shreveport’s greatest needs.

An Evening for Healers also honors the lifesaving work of Shreveport-Bossier community's first responders, physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and other healthcare providers who have made a lasting impact on patients at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport.

This year’s event honored more than 50 first responders and health care professionals and told their patients’ stories through inspiring documentaries.

Highlights from our September 12, 2024 Healers Event:

The LSU Health Shreveport Foundation held its annual fundraising event, An Evening for Healers, on Thursday, September 12. Now in its 13th year, the event serves as a platform to honor and celebrate the Shreveport-Bossier community's first responders, physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, and other healthcare providers who each played a vital role in saving the lives of patients at Ochsner LSU Health Shreveport (OLHS), North Louisiana's only Level 1 Trauma Center while raising mission-critical funding for LSU Health Shreveport.

More than 900 guests attended An Evening for Healers, which has raised over $536,000. This year’s featured patients were Mackenzie Kelso, a Louisiana Tech soccer player who experienced a sudden cardiac arrest at practice one day, and Clayton Moock, a Haughton, Louisiana resident who suffered extensive severe burns and subsequent life-threatening infections when a natural gas pipeline he and a coworker were inspecting exploded. Thanks to the quick response times and the care they received, they had the opportunity to collectively thank their team of healers for saving their lives for the first time at the event.

Since the event’s inception, 29 moving patient stories have been shared, more than 930 dedicated first responders and healthcare heroes have been honored, and more than $4 million has been raised for LSU Health Shreveport.

Highlight videos from our August 31, 2023 Healers Event: