About Us
Thrive Rural Health is a Louisiana small business building Della — an AI health companion that meets rural patients where they are, on the phones they already carry.
Over 1.5 million Medicaid beneficiaries live across rural Louisiana parishes where healthcare access is a daily challenge. Primary care shortages, mental health deserts, and chronic disease rates far above the national average define the landscape.
The U.S. Surgeon General has identified social isolation as a public health crisis equivalent to smoking 15 cigarettes per day. For rural patients, isolation drives missed medications, delayed care-seeking, preventable ER visits, and accelerated decline.
Most digital health tools require a smartphone, an app, and a data plan. They're built for urban populations. Thrive takes a different approach: Della works on any phone — including flip phones and landlines. No app. No login. No friction. Just a relationship that catches problems early.
If it requires a download, a login, or a data plan, it doesn't reach the people who need it most. We design for the hardest-to-reach first.
We strengthen the work of community health workers, rural providers, and existing care networks. Della identifies and documents — facility clinicians decide what gets acted on and billed.
We measure success by care gaps closed, ER visits prevented, and isolation identified early. Real faces, real parishes, real impact.
We're a Louisiana small business solving Louisiana problems. Our team understands the parishes, the culture, and the communities we serve.
Built by people who know rural Louisiana.
Founder
Louisiana small business owner with deep roots in rural communities. Built Thrive to solve problems he sees firsthand in the parishes where his family lives and works.
Senior Advisor
Former Administrator of West Feliciana Parish Hospital and published researcher in rural hospital management. Brings decades of experience in rural healthcare operations and administration.
Louisiana's Rural Health Catalyst Fund represents a generational investment in rural health infrastructure. Thrive Rural Health is purpose-built to support that mission — providing the patient engagement layer, the care intelligence, and the state reporting infrastructure to demonstrate measurable outcomes at the parish level.
See how Della connects patients, providers, and state agencies.