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It is composed of the following parishes (counties): Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis. [1] [2] As of 2020, the combined population of the five parish area was 313,951. [3] Southwest Louisiana has one metropolitan area: Lake Charles.
Cameron Parish (French: Paroisse de Cameron) is a parish in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,617. The parish seat is Cameron. [2] Although it is the largest parish by area in Louisiana, it has the second-smallest population in the state, ahead of only Tensas.
Headquarters of the Louisiana Department of Health. The Louisiana Department of Health (LDH) (French: Département de La Santé de Louisiane), formerly known as the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (French: Département de La Santé et des Hôpitaux), is a state agency of Louisiana, headquartered in Baton Rouge. [3]
Emergency medical transportation began in the city of New Orleans with hospital-based horse-drawn ambulances in the early 1900s. [3] Charity Hospital was one of the first hospitals in the United States to provide emergency medical transportation. [3] The current EMS agency began in 1947 as the EMS division within the New Orleans Police Department.
LA 27 begins at a junction with LA 14 in Holmwood, a point in Calcasieu Parish. It heads due south and, after 11 miles (18 km), provides access to the 9,621-acre (38.93 km 2) Cameron Prairie National Wildlife Refuge. [2] Reaching a cross-roads at Creole, LA 27 turns west concurrent with LA 82, the only other major highway through Cameron Parish.
The Diocese of Lake Charles includes the civil parishes of Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron, and Jefferson Davis. The Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Lake Charles is its cathedral church, and Glen John Provost is the current bishop.
Westlake is located in east-central Calcasieu Parish at (30.248455, -93.259047), [3] on the west bank of the Calcasieu River, just north of that river's entry into the water body of Lake Charles The city of Lake Charles borders Westlake across the river, connected via the Interstate 10 bridge, Calcasieu River Bridge .