DAB Health Innovations

10/01/2026

Thank you to Zeta McCaskill and The Current for telling the story of Creole Culture Day from dawn to dusk.

The 5th Annual Creole Culture Day is this Saturday, rain or shine, powered by Cecilia Spice Co., ZYDECO EXTRAVAGANZA and Don Cravins Insurance Agency

The boucherie starts at 6 AM at John Bobb Jr. Park. By 10 AM the black pots move to Church Street in Grand Coteau, between KPC Hall and the Thensted Outreach Center-Grand Coteau.

KPC Hall, 252 Church Street: doors open at 10 AM with DJ Cool Jed and the Creole Marketplace. Live music starts at 1 PM with the Broussard Sisters, then Dexter and Mark Ardoin, Wayne Singleton Featuring The Urban Kreyol Band , and Step Rideau & the Zydeco Outlaws to close the night. Music powered by Sunbelt Rentals Carencro.

Thensted Center, 268 Church Street: the Ruth Anita Foote Heritage Hub opens at 10 AM. The genealogy panel, powered by Sonnier Productions, starts at 11 AM. Creole French Bingo, powered by Codofil -Agence des Affaires Francophones de Louisiane, starts at 1 PM. Who Yo People, powered by Vues de Culture, will be recording family stories all day.

Special thanks to Mayor Patrick Richard, the aldermen and alderwomen, and the Town of Grand Coteau, Louisiana for having us for the third year in a row, making this year five.

Read the article and see the full rain plan in the first comment.

Creole Culture Day is back for a fifth year. In addition to traditional food and music, families are invited to share, preserve and trace their own histories.

09/25/2026

07/31/2026

It’s the end of July. Check your certifications for expiration date and let DAB Health Innovations get you certified or recertified today.

05/16/2026

Your health is a story. Numbers. Bloodlines. Symptoms that come and go. Goals that change with the seasons.

That story deserves one teller. Not a different clinic every time. Not a new face explaining your history back to you while reading it off a screen.

At DAB Health Innovations you get a primary care provider who actually knows you. Who remembers what your labs looked like six months ago. Who knows your mother's history. Who knows what you are working on right now.

That is what continuity feels like. That is what Black women in Acadiana have not always had access to.

DAB Health Innovations is accepting new clients. Schedule your virtual visit at dabhealth.org

05/15/2026

Your first visit can happen right where you are. No drive across town. No waiting room. No taking a half-day off.

Here is how a virtual visit at DAB Health Innovations actually works.

Step one. You book online through Jane in under fifteen minutes. Pick the day, pick the time, fill out a short intake.

Step two. You join the video call from your phone or your laptop. We talk about your whole story — not the fifteen-minute slot version. Family history. What is going on now. What you want from your health.

Step three. Labs ordered, prescriptions sent, referrals made, follow-up scheduled. Everything lives in your portal.

DAB Health Innovations is accepting new clients across Acadiana. Schedule your virtual visit at dabhealth.org

05/15/2026

When was the last time anyone told you what the next ten years of your body will actually feel like?

If you are a Black woman in your late thirties or forties and you have started noticing changes — sleep that does not come, heat that arrives out of nowhere, fatigue that no amount of rest fixes, a brain that used to be sharper — you are not imagining it. You are also not alone.

The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation has tracked this for almost thirty years. Black women experience the perimenopause transition for a median of 10.1 years. That is the longest of any group. We are also prescribed the hormone therapy that addresses the cause at half the rate of white women. 5.4% versus 10.8%. The data is clear. The conversation has not caught up.

Simone Baptiste at The Ledger wrote a feature on it. We have published the full article on dabhealth.org so it is one click for our community.

If any of this is hitting home, book a virtual visit. First visits run about an hour. We talk about your whole story — not the fifteen-minute slot version. Labs ordered, plan written, follow-up scheduled.

Read the article and schedule at dabhealth.org.
— Dawn P. Arceneaux, MSN, APRN, FNP-C
DAB Health Innovations · Lafayette, Louisiana

What Black women in Louisiana are not being told about perimenopause. A feature from DAB Health Innovations.

05/15/2026

When was the last time you saw your own provider? Not the urgent care down the street. Not the app-based clinic. Your provider.

A primary care provider is the person who knows your numbers. Your history. Your meds. Your goals. They notice when something is off before you do. They are the foundation everything else builds on.

If you have not had one in years, you are not alone. And you are not stuck.

DAB Health Innovations is accepting new clients. Virtual visits. In-person when you need it. Nurse-practitioner-led primary care for Black women across Acadiana.

Schedule your virtual visit. Link in bio or dabhealth.org

05/09/2026

"You're not lazy. You're not just stressed. You're not making it up." If "just stressed" was the answer for three years, that wasn't a workup.

I'm Dawn Arceneaux, MSN, APRN, FNP-C — accepting new patients at DAB Health.

Real labs. Thyroid, iron, B12, vitamin D, sleep, mood. Find what's off. Fix it.

Your door is open. Swipe, then tap the link in bio.

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05/08/2026

Louisiana has the highest maternal mortality in America. Most of what kills mothers is preventable months before conception — not in the delivery room.

I'm Dawn Arceneaux, MSN, APRN, FNP-C — accepting new patients at DAB Health.

Preconception primary care. Real labs, real listening, the runway before pregnancy.

Your door is open. Swipe, then tap the link in bio.

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05/07/2026

"Your heart doesn't wait for 50." Heart disease is Louisiana's number one killer — and Black women's risk starts in their 20s.

I'm Dawn Arceneaux, MSN, APRN, FNP-C — accepting new patients at DAB Health.

Five numbers. One baseline. A plan that protects your heart.

Your door is open. Swipe, then tap the link in bio.

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