Director, Community Health • Ochsner Health
Charlene Ho helps bring healthcare to places where people live, learn and gather.
At Ochsner Health, the director of community health established the Jag Mobile program with Southern University’s School of Nursing and Allied Health. The partnership takes care into communities while giving future healthcare professionals hands-on experience—a response to both access barriers and workforce needs.
She launched Family Connects New Orleans at Ochsner Baptist, a universal postpartum nurse home-visiting program supporting families during the months after birth.
And locally, Ho has co-led community health needs assessments and helped develop a health improvement plan, bringing healthcare, nonprofit and government stakeholders together around local priorities.
Her advisory board service with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library of Louisiana extends that investment to children’s literacy.
How I define success: “The life I build at home. Professional accomplishments are meaningful, but my greatest measure of success is having a strong marriage, meaningful relationships and a life that reflects my values.”
Something I’m surprisingly good at: “My husband would say I have an uncanny ability to order the most expensive item on the menu without looking at the prices. I call it appreciation for quality, but he would probably disagree.”
