About me
Mary Ellen Pratt is the CEO of St. James Parish Hospital. Ms. Pratt earned a Master of Health Administration from the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. Mary Ellen Pratt has been the Chief Executive Officer at St. James Parish Hospital, where she has dedicated her career to rural health for the last 20 years.
Mary Ellen currently serves on the Board of the Louisiana Hospital Association, the Louisiana Rural Hospital Coalition, and the National Rural Resource Center. She participated in the AHA’s Future of Rural Taskforce and was past Chair of the AHA Small Rural Hospital Governing Council.
Mary Ellen was named in Becker’s “50 Rural Hospital CEOs to Know” for 6 consecutive years. She is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the National Rural Health Association.
