Making Your Health First Priority

Leachel Cook McMillan has been providing high-quality care to patients and communities for over 3 decades.  At the young age of 15, she recognized her passion to care for others and began training as a certified nurse assistant in her local high school in New Orleans, La.  Immediately after graduating high school, she began her professional training as a Registered Nurse and later graduated from the University of Mobile with an Associate’s Degree in nursing. She went on to obtain a Bachelor’s of Science Degree through Phoenix University and later a Doctorate Degree in Nursing through Simmons University.  Additionally, in 2014 Leachel Cook McMillan earned specialty certifications in both wound and ostomy care through the national certification board Wound, Ostomy, and Continence Nurse Society. In 2017, she became certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.  She also continues to hold a certification in clinical Case Management through the national certification board, Commission for Case Manager since 2011.  Leachel Cook McMillan considers the gold standard approach to the exceptional delivery of care as care that focuses on the “whole client.”  This care takes into consideration the client as a person, family unit, and community.