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Because Louisiana is now in Phase Two, Abbeville General is now letting visitors into the hospital, however, on a limited bases.
On Friday, Abbeville General began allowing only one certain individual to visit a patient.
Abbeville General released a set of guidelines that they are asking visitors to follow.
Here are the new guidelines the hospital wants everyone to follow.
• Each patient will be allowed one unique (unable to swap out) asymptomatic visitor for the duration of their stay in the emergency room, outpatient surgery and inpatient settings.
What this means is that only one certain person will be allowed to visit the patient.
• ICU patients will be allowed one unique asymptomatic visitor per patient only during visiting hours. Visitation of patients will be limited to one visitor per patient per day. Visitation will be strictly enforced. Visitation will be from 10 am – 7 pm.
• Patients will provide the name of their one essential visitor. Visitors must be screened for symptoms at facility entry/access points each day. If they are symptomatic, they will be turned away. All essential visitors will be required to wear masks throughout the building. To conserve supplies, the hospital is encouraging visitors to bring a mask from home. If they do not have one, a mask will be issued.
• Visitor must be 18 years or older, must remain in the patient’s room and not gather in common areas such as waiting rooms. Surgery visitors will wait in the surgery waiting room while maintaining social distancing. Visitor will be asked to return home if symptoms of respiratory infection (fever, runny nose, cough, shortness of breath) occur.
• Unique visitors reporting to inpatient areas:
Visitor must be 18 years or older.
Essential visitor will be identified by patient or responsible party, will check in at access/entry point, required to wash hands, will be screened, and will be required to wear a mask and a wrist band.
Swapping visitors throughout the day will not be allowed. Families encouraged to use alternate means of communication such as FaceTime, Skype or phones located in patient rooms.
These visitors may be required to wear PPE depending on patient condition
Abbey Café will be closed to visitors
Visitors should remain in the patient room and cannot gather in common areas such as waiting rooms or wander in hallways or around the hospital.
Social Distancing rules and guidelines will be enforced and if not followed, you may be asked to leave.

A Celebration of Life Gathering for Logan Anthony Rana, 20, will be held on June 10, 2020, from 2:00PM - 4:00PM with a service at 3:30PM at David Funeral Home of Lafayette on Youngsville Hwy.
Logan, a native and resident of Lafayette, passed away on May 24, 2020, at a family residence. Logan will be dearly remembered as a kind, sweet, and compassionate son, brother, grandson, nephew, and cousin. His contagious laugh and smile will forever be engraved in our hearts. He will be deeply missed by all that loved him, especially his loyal companion, Rex.
He is survived by his parents, Sohail Rana and Karen Rana, his brother, Hunter Stevenson, sisters, Alaina and Alyssa Rana, his maternal grandparents and godparents Frank and Barbara LeBouef, paternal grandparents, Riasat Rana and Jil Rana.
Condolences may be made to the family at www.davidfuneralhome.org
David Funeral Home of Lafayette 316 Youngsville Hwy Lafayette, LA 70508 (337) 837-9887.

By Michelle Malkin

Dear law-abiding Americans:
You have done nothing wrong.
Being white is not a crime. Being a Trump voter is not a crime. Being a police officer sworn to "protect and serve" every day is not a crime. Being a non-white police officer proud to uphold and enforce law and order is not a crime. Being a black or brown or yellow American who rejects excusing criminal behavior is not a crime.
Rejecting collective guilt is not a crime. Refusing to acknowledge "white privilege" when you were born poor, or in a broken home, or with physical or psychological challenges, is not a crime. Embracing the historic American nation, instead of erasing it, is not a crime.
Enforcing your private property rights is not a crime. Teaching your wife and children to use a gun in self-defense is not a crime. Owning an AR-15 or two is not a crime.
Do not let the media, Hollywood, academics or politicians gaslight you. Stop internalizing lies. Who are the criminals? Who are the heroes? Who are the makers and keepers of peace? Who are the sowers and reapers of hate?
The Proud Boys, who have guarded their communities and country for the past three years, were the lone citizen soldiers in the battle against antifa that no one else on the ground wanted to fight. The group and its leader, Gavin McInnes, have suffered greatly for trying to stop the violence now raging nationwide. McInnes has been deplatformed everywhere and falsely labeled a "white supremacist." Scores of Proud Boys of all colors have lost their jobs after being doxxed by antifa vigilantes. Two Proud Boys are in prison, railroaded by New York Democrats, after a Kafkaesque trial in which the cop-hating antifa "victims" who lured the Proud Boys into an October 2018 street brawl refused to press charges or testify.
Their crime? These unapologetic Americans stood on their feet, not on their knees.
Journalists and photographers who documented antifa violence for the past three years, such as Andy Ngo, Chelly Bouferrache and Brandon Brown in Portland, Oregon, have endured physical assaults, death threats and harassment. Many others have gone into hiding and suffer in silence.
Their crime? Exposing antifa anarchy, standing eye to eye against their assailants, on their feet, not on their knees.
Working-class Irish, German and Polish-American men of Fishtown, a northeast Philadelphia suburb, came together this week to prevent their neighborhood from being pillaged and burned in the name of "social justice" like the rest of the City of Brotherly Riots. They banded together outside the 26th police precinct, armed with bats and golf clubs, and faced down Black Lives Matter protesters who were there to taunt and provoke the cops.
Turn off CNN and tune into the facts on the ground. At least 25 Philadelphia cops have been hurt during mob violence this week. It's an all-out war on the thin blue line. At least 150 cops have been assaulted -- four nearly murdered -- in New York City as of Tuesday afternoon. Two Buffalo, New York, law enforcement officers were run over late Monday night. In addition, 51 members of the U.S. Park Police were injured; a Cincinnati cop was grazed by a bullet aimed at his head; four St. Louis officers were shot; one retired St. Louis police captain was killed; a Las Vegas Metro cop was shot; and a federal officer was shot and killed in Oakland -- all in the name of peace, tolerance and reparations.
Yet, against this bloody and retributive backdrop, Democratic leaders in Philadelphia who have coddled looters all week condemned the peacekeeping Fishtown Brigade as a "mob" of "vigilantes."
Their crime? Standing tall on their feet, not on their knees.
Scot Mendelson, a world record-holding powerlifter, protected his Southern California gym on Monday afternoon. "If you're going to destroy something that somebody worked so hard to build, well, you know what, maybe you should be put down," he told Fox 11 Los Angeles. "You walk through my door, you threaten my life, I'm aiming for the head."
Mendelson's crime? Standing muscle-bound and honor-bound on his feet, not on his knees.
Proud and good people hold their chins and guns up in a crisis. It is how Korean grocers responded when the police abandoned them during the Los Angeles riots in 1992. It is how armed small-business owners of all colors are now facing an onslaught of crazed, greedy and evil barbarians hell-bent on destroying every enforcement bulwark that protects our civil society -- from our borders to our neighborhoods to the White House.
Weakness is not strength. Confessing sins for which you bear no guilt is not noble. It makes me sick to my stomach to see virtue-signaling police chiefs kneeling before barking rioters calling them "pigs." I am nauseated by the sight of sobbing white people groveling for forgiveness before sadistic Black Lives Matter demagogues -- as if this will appease the unappeasable. It will not and never will.
America, straighten your spines. Unbow your heads. No home or nation was ever saved by kowtowing to invaders or ransackers. Unless you are praying to God, get up off your knees.

Michelle Malkin's email address is MichelleMalkinInvestigates@protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com.

MAURICE — A handful of Maurice residents had concerns when they saw a few hundred feet of steel pipe on the grounds where construction is taking place to build the new Acadiana Ford Dealership. Their concern was, “Who gave the OK to put the steel pipe in the ground?”
Curtis Catalon and other residents, along with Maurice Mayor Wayne Theriot and alderman Warren Rost attended the Coulee Kinney Drainage District Board meeting Thursday night to find who gave the construction company the OK to put the pipe in the ground.
Catalon said the pipe looked too small and may hamper drainage for a big rain.
Everyone learned the Coulee Kinney Drainage Board did not give their stamp of approval for the hundreds of feet to be buried. The Village of Maurice Board of Aldermen also did not give the OK for the pipe.
After a 75-minute discussion back and forth with Travis Laurent, the engineer of Paul L. Miers Engineering, who is in charge of the construction, drainage board president John Andrus gave instructions to Laurent on what to do before any pipe goes into the ground.
Andrus explained to the residents that there is a “glitch in the system” which lets the engineering firm go forth with placing the pipe in the ground without the drainage board’s approval. But Andrus explained, the “glitch” needs to be fixed.
“Hopefully that will never happen again,” said Andrus about the hundreds of yards of drainage pipe being taken to the location without anyone’s approval of it being buried. “It is a glitch in the system that happens. No one is trying to pull the wool over anyone’s eyes.”
Andrus said as soon as he found out there was steel pipe on location and the drainage board was not aware that a ditch was about to be closed without the drainage board’s approval, he made phone calls.
“It got stopped right there,” said Andrus.
The residents were also concerned with the type of pipe being buried. They learned it was a galvanized steel pipe instead of a concrete pipe. Their argument was that steel will rust away in 15 years and who is responsible for repairing or replacing the pipe when that happens.
Andrus said the drainage board does not normally get involved with the type of pipe being placed in the ground, but this is also the first time someone places steel pipe into the ground instead of concrete pipe.
“I have some concerns that it is a galvanized pipe,” Andrus added. “If we are going to allow this type of pipe, we would like more information on this.”
The drainage board agreed to let the engineers figure out what is the correct pipe to place into the ground and then they will report back to the drainage board.