Frances Isbell

CEO
Healthcare for the Homeless - Houston

Frances Isbell is the Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare for the Homeless – Houston, a Federally Qualified Health Center providing care for 8,000 people annually. As the inaugral CEO of Healthcare for the Homeless – Houston, Ms. Isbell has been instrumental in bringing together a large number of community-based agencies, healthcare clinicians, educational institutions, and public organizations to forge a common strategic plan to effectively address the health needs of people experiencing homelessness. The primary aim of this consortium is to increase access to quality healthcare while concurrently reducing costly and ineffective service duplication. Since joining this endeavor in 1998, Ms. Isbell has received numerous local and national awards and recognitions for her work, and two of HHH’s programs have been cited as a national best practices