Meet Della
Della is an AI health companion available to rural patients by voice and text. Any phone — flip phone, landline, or smartphone. No app. No login. Call or text anytime — she remembers you between conversations and connects you to your care team when it matters.
No app. No smartphone. No login.
Built for a 72-year-old grandmother in Tensas Parish with a flip phone.
Across 44 rural parishes, communities face healthcare challenges that demand a new approach.
1.5M
Medicaid beneficiaries in rural parishes
93%
Face mental health provider shortages
73%
Face primary care shortages
20–43%
Higher chronic disease rates than urban areas
Della connects patients, providers, and state agencies through one integrated system.
Patients call or text a local Louisiana number anytime. Della self-discloses as AI every conversation. Remembers patients between contacts — family, concerns, care plans. Escalates to the care team instantly. English and Spanish.
Secure web dashboard for providers, care coordinators, and CHWs. Care-gap identification: flags patients eligible for undelivered services. Parish-level resource directory. Prioritized worklists — clinicians decide what gets acted on.
Aggregated, de-identified reporting for state partners. Quarterly State of Rural Louisiana Health report. Documents program impact and ROI for CMS — turning every interaction into measurable proof.
About Della
Della isn't a chatbot buried inside a patient portal. She's a voice on the other end of the phone — warm, patient, unhurried. Patients call a local Louisiana number and Della answers, identifies as AI at the start of every conversation, and remembers what you talked about last time.
Concerns get routed to the care team immediately. Social needs get connected to 211 Louisiana and parish-level resources.
Purpose-built for the people that every other digital health tool leaves behind.
Thrive Rural Health is a Louisiana small business building technology that amplifies existing care networks — not replaces them.
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