About - LPHI

We operate across sectors

to design and implement solutions that advance health for all.

We engage and support

communities to translate evidence into strategy to optimize health ecosystems.

We align with our partners

to address the social determinants of health.

1997

The RWJF Turning Point: Collaborating for a New Century in Public Health program grant for Louisiana was awarded to LPHI. This program produced a state public health improvement plan that served as a blueprint for LPHI moving forward. The program was designed to transform and strengthen the public health infrastructure so that states, local communities, and their public health agencies may respond to the challenge to protect and improve the public's health in the 21st Century. The Louisiana partnership created a forum for dialog among multiple health agencies, community and business organizations and the population of Louisiana that takes a systems approach to creating and sustaining change. To achieve this goal, the Louisiana partnership developed a governance structure built on collaborative relationships with the capacity and the tools necessary to build local partnerships and improve health information systems.

1997

A Concurrent Resolution endorses LPHI’s creation. LPHI is officially incorporated. The Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that serves as a partner and convener to improve population-level health outcomes.

2000

PATH employed a systems redesign approach by striving to coordinate existing community assets and health system resources, and ascribed to the principles of the Institute of Medicines Crossing the Quality Chasm

2000

Partnership for Access to Health (PATH) is formed with Catholic Health Network funds. PATH was a collaborative effort among partner organizations dedicated to creating a culturally sensitive and seamless health and social services delivery system for residents of the New Orleans area.

2003

TFL’s mission is to implement and evaluate comprehensive tobacco control initiatives that prevent and reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke.

2003

First Louisiana Cancer Research Center (LCRC) $7.2 million contract with LPHI to create The Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco Free Living (TFL). TFL, a statewide tobacco control program funded by a state excise tax on tobacco passed in 2002, envisions a healthier Louisiana through 100% tobacco-free living.

2004

The Steps program funded communities to implement chronic disease prevention and health promotion programs that targeted three major chronic diseases: diabetes, obesity and asthma and their underlying risk factors of physical inactivity, poor nutrition and tobacco use. The success of the program was made possible by its community partners. The Steps program was about improving lives and helping Americans reduce their risk of chronic diseases so that they can live longer, better and healthier.

2004

LPHI partners with the New Orleans Health Department to implement the CDC Steps to a Healthier New Orleans obesity grant. Steps to a Healthier New Orleans (Steps) was part of the Steps to a Healthier US Initiative, a national, multi-level program that is changing the face of chronic disease prevention in communities across the United States.

2006

School Health Connection provides leadership and coordination to promote healthy school communities and access to health services so that children and youth in the Greater New Orleans area can reach their full potential.

2006

Kellogg Foundation grant to reestablish school-based health centers post-Katrina. School Health Connection (SHC) is a regional collaborative effort formed in 2006 to support the rebuilding and expansion of School Based Health Centers (SBHCs) in the greater New Orleans area following Hurricane Katrina.

2007

LPHI has been contributing to significant achievements in the transformation of the New Orleans healthcare system since 2000. After Hurricane Katrina decimated the city’s infrastructure, including crucial primary and emergency care access points, LPHI helped create a distributed network of high-quality primary care centers by effectively administering the $100 million federal Primary Care Access and Stabilization Grant (PCASG). With the roll out of the grant program, the New Orleans area had the highest concentration of NCQA-recognized Patient Centered Medical Homes of anywhere in the country due to this effort. LPHI was awarded the National Health Award by NCQA in 2010 for its contributions to these achievements.

2007

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) funds a four-year $100 million Primary Care Access and Stabilization Grant (PCASG) through Louisiana Medicaid to LPHI to rebuild and expand primary care in metro New Orleans.

2010

The CCBC initiative seeks to achieve meaningful and measurable improvements in healthcare quality, safety and efficiency in the Greater New Orleans area, while helping lay the groundwork for an emerging health IT industry that is expected to support new job creation opportunities across the region. The Greater New Orleans area is one of only 17 communities across the country chosen for this honor.

2010

The Office of National Coordinator for HIT funds LPHI to create the Crescent City Beacon Community (CCBC) to improve chronic disease care enabled by HIT. The American Recovery Act grant was awarded to the Greater New Orleans area through a collaborative of public and private healthcare systems convened by the Louisiana Public Health Institute (LPHI).

2012

GRHOP is currently intended to be a 5 year initiative composed of 5 integrated projects designed to strengthen primary and behavioral healthcare services in oil spill impacted communities in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle. These projects are a collaborative partnership among LPHI, Tulane University, University of Southern Mississippi, University of South Alabama, University of West Florida, Louisiana State University, and the Alliance Institute. The program was developed jointly by BP and legal counsel representing plaintiffs as part of the Deepwater Horizon preliminary medical settlement in U.S. District Court in New Orleans. GRHOP will be supervised by the court.

2012

Gulf Region Health Outreach Program (GRHOP) Primary Care Capacity Project is created by a court settlement to expand quality primary care in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Northwest Florida.

2013

With collaborative, member-driven governance, the GNOHIE supports local hospitals and outpatient primary and behavioral health providers to get patient information where it needs to be, when it needs to be there, to support clinical decision-making.

2013

GNOHIE is formed. Beginning in 2013, in partnership with local healthcare leaders, LPHI established the Greater New Orleans Health Information Exchange (GNOHIE).

2013

REACHnet is a partnership between the Louisiana Public Health Institute, Ochsner Health System, Partnership for Achieving Total Health (PATH), Louisiana State University, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Tulane University and Baylor Scott & White Health. REACHnet increases the capacity to conduct comparative effectiveness research by building a powerful health information technology infrastructure. The network increases efficiency of recruitment by giving clinicians the ability to participate in research that may have previously been limited by resources and time constraints. Today, REACHnet provides access to comprehensive clinical data for more than one million patients statewide--and beyond.

2013

LPHI receives funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to form the Louisiana Clinical Data Research Network (now REACHnet), which positions LPHI and the region for NIH clinical trial awards.

2015

The New Orleans smoke-free ordinance (New Orleans City Code Chapter 66, Article II), effective April 22, 2015, prohibits smoking in all enclosed public places of employment, including all bars and gaming facilities. New Orleans is now among national leaders in an effort to protect Americans from the dangers of secondhand smoke, moving forward, no one in this great city will have to choose between their health and a paycheck.

2015

10 Years of Smoke-Free coalition-building culminates in the passage and implementation of New Orleans ordinance. The passage of a policy in New Orleans to make all workplaces smoke-free—including all bars and casinos—represents an exciting turning point for public health in Louisiana.

2015

The platform is designed to 1) support local collaborative activity, 2) educate civic leaders, engaged citizens, and other decision makers about the multiple factors that influence community health, and 3) inform resource allocation and planning that supports healthy and resilient neighborhoods and communities.

2015

LPHI launches Gulf Coast Healthy Communities Project. The Gulf Coast Healthy Communities Project, funded by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation, partners with three nonprofit organizations in Biloxi, Mobile, and Pensacola to provide each one with a locally-based, publicly accessible data platform.

2016

LPHI has surged in both scope and scale of capacity in recent years and as the mission environment has shifted to one more focused on population health, health equity and resilient communities, the organization has invested significant time, thought leadership and resources into a strategic pivot and associated cultural development process. Two years later and after much thoughtful work, LPHI has created a strategic plan that embodies the essence of LPHI, its vison and mission and values, and, importantly, the translation of its purpose into a framework of focused, actionable and complementary strategies among the committed members of LPHI’s staff.

2016

LPHI completes a three-year strategic plan and rebrands. In 2014, LPHI initiated a strategy and culture process and embraced a bold mission: to align action for health. As part of the critical strategic work, LPHI has developed an enduring brand identity that empowers the organization to grow into new opportunities.

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Aligning Action for Health

We operate across sectors

We engage and support

We align with our partners

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History

Board of Directors

Kathleen Kennedy, PharmD

Parham Jaberi, MD, MPH

Brian P. Jakes, Sr.

Donna Williams, MS, MPH, DrPH

Linda Holyfield, RN, MSN

Gordon Wadge, MPA, Board Chair

Bernard H. Eichold, MD, DrPH, FACP

James W. Parks II, Board Treasurer

Jane T. Bertrand, PhD, MBA

Dawn A. Mellion-Patin, PhD, MBA

Jennifer Avegno, MD

Linda Usdin, DrPH

Financials