Jill Fragoso

AVP, HR Children’s Hospital New Orleans

Jill Fragoso is the Assistant Vice President of Human Resources at Children’s Hospital New Orleans, the only freestanding children’s hospital in Louisiana.  Jill most recently served as the Director of Benefits and Wellbeing at Texas Children’s Hospital, consistently ranked among the top 5 children’s hospitals in the nation.  There, she was responsible for strategy and operations of the health and welfare programs, Occupational Health Clinic, Employee Medical Clinic and Employee Wellbeing.  Prior to joining Texas Children’s, Jill served as the System Director of Employee Health and Workers’ Compensation for Presence Health, a 12-hospital system headquartered in Chicago.  She received both her BSN and MA in Health Promotion from the University of Iowa, where she was a varsity diver on the Women’s Swimming and Diving Team.  Jill is a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.  She is also a Certified Occupational Health Nurse Specialist.  She has presented at seminars and conferences on the topics of wellbeing in the workplace, and promoting and protecting worker health.  Jill and her husband, Lou, are both Ironman triathletes. They have five children and live in New Orleans, Louisiana.