Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025 | Vol. 6, No. 1

A legion of tiny snowmen

We are just one month in, but 2025 is already shaping up to be unpredictable – and nothing demonstrates that better than the legion of tiny snowmen currently occupying freezers across South Louisiana.


If you had “once-in-a-generation snowfall” on your 2025 Bingo card, you deserve whatever prize is coming your way.  


To many, last week's Sneauxmageddon was wondrous. To those who forgot to wrap their pipes, it was something else altogether. Either way, it was certainly memorable – and that’s not nothing.


Now that we have all had a chance to thaw out, we would like to take this opportunity to tip our cap to our steadfast STHS colleagues who manned the fort at our flagship St. Tammany Parish Hospital throughout the winter storm, and especially those staffing the hospital’s Emergency Department and our standalone ED in Mandeville.


As always, both stayed open around the clock so our colleagues could continue to serve the community (and make the occasional snow angel). Also as always, we couldn’t be prouder to work alongside them – and, indeed, alongside all of our colleagues.


The weather may be unpredictable, but the care providers at every level of St. Tammany Health System proved once more that they are nothing if not dependable.


Below, you can read more about what they are up to in this latest batch of stories from our St. Tammany Health System newsroom. We hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed pulling them together.


Thank you for reading, and thank you for trusting St. Tammany Health System with your family’s care.  

Community Checkup 


In her monthly video address, St. Tammany Health System President and CEO Joan Coffman celebrates recent achievements – and revisits Sneauxmageddon 2025. 

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STHS names its next COO

Jack Khashou, a Northshore healthcare leader with more than 30 years of experience, has been named chief operating officer of St. Tammany Health System.


He succeeds Sharon Toups, who will retire after serving in the role for 23 years.


“Those who know Sharon know she leaves big shoes to fill,” Khashou said. “But as part of her legacy she also leaves a thriving health system built upon patient experience, operational excellence, colleague collaboration and quality care. Those characteristics will remain central to everything we do at every level of the health system, and I am honored to build on the strong foundation Sharon forged to continue to meet and exceed the needs of our community.”


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Tune in, St. Tammany


Just three months after the 1954 founding of St. Tammany Parish Hospital, the all-volunteer St. Tammany Hospital Guild was formed to assist in its healing mission. Now, 70 years later, we sit down with some of its current members in the latest episode of our “Northshore Healthbeat” podcast to talk about why they choose to donate their time to it.

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A new face


S. Dale Jenkins of Covington, a business expert with experience across the retail, consumer goods, technology, healthcare and financial services spheres, has been appointed to serve as a member of the St. Tammany Health System Board of Commissioners.

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Heart to Heart


The latest issue of our quarterly Heart to Heart magazine has landed, chock-full of headlines from the STHS newsroom. Watch for your free issue to arrive in your mailbox any day now – and if you just can’t wait, you can also browse a digital version in our online newsroom.

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Simply the best


The St. Tammany Health System Women’s Pavilion has earned Press Ganey’s prestigious Human Experience Pinnacle of Excellence Award and Guardian of Excellence Award for 2024, putting it in the upper echelon of U.S. healthcare providers for patient experience.

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