DePaul Community Health Centers and Ascension DePaul Services announced that its vice president of population health and quality management, Jennifer Frizzell, has been named a Health Care Hero by New Orleans CityBusiness.
Frizzell earned the title for “leading innovation in community healthcare” by improving patient outcomes and experiences. Frizzell oversees multiple departments with the nonprofit healthcare organization, which has served the greater New Orleans community for nearly 190 years.
As a certified quality improvement facilitator, Frizzell works with teams to provide access to compassionate, holistic, high-quality primary and preventive healthcare services, regardless of patients’ ability to pay. Her leadership and work at DCHC touch 11 healthcare centers, 27 school-based sites, and three mobile medical and dental units, serving more than 51,000 New Orleans area residents annually. Additionally, ADS operates two facilities in both Dumas and Gould, Ark., respectively. Frizzell is recognized as a leading proponent of patient-centered care and is focused on improving overall community health status and tackling social determinants of health at all the locations listed above.
“I am humbled and honored to have been nominated and selected as a 2023 Health Care Hero,” said Frizzell. “Reducing barriers that patients experience every day with trying to access essential healthcare services and ensuring that equitable, high-quality care is available to the communities we serve is essential to improving the health status for all. Every patient matters. Every employee matters and I believe this is the foundation for building and sustaining innovative patient centered medical homes such as DePaul Community Health Centers.”
Honorees will be celebrated at an in-person event on Oct. 9th at the New Orleans Museum of Art from 4-6 p.m.