CEO, Homecare Association of Louisiana

Dr. Warren Hébert, DNP, RN, CAE, FAAN, graduated from Charity Hospital School of Nursing in 1979 and earned his BSN, MSN, and DNP from Loyola in New Orleans.

Dr. Hébert, (pronounced in French, a-bear) has worked in home health since 1985. His scholarly interests are in family caregiving, transcultural care, health policy, homecare, and leadership. In 2014, Dr. Hébert led a group of home health professionals to northern India to observe aging, family caregiving, and end-of-life care in Tibetan Buddhist communities. Dr. Hébert co-founded the nation’s only psychometrically standardized test for the Medicare Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS) in 2004. The Certificate for OASIS-Clinical (COS-C) exam has tested over 25,000 homecare professionals.

Dr. Hébert has been the founder or has served on the boards of several organizations related to home health, people with disabilities, rural health, and health policy. He is a Senior Advisor to the Chief Nurse of the American Red Cross. Dr. Hébert has hosted a weekly radio program/podcast, Family Caregiving, broadcast in nine states, and on the web on Radio Maria U.S. The station reaches as many as 30,000 listeners a day.