Jenelle L. Crespo, RN, CCM
Chief Executive Officer
Our work matters because behind every system, every decision, and every outcome is a person trusting us with their care.
Jenelle is a healthcare strategist with academic backgrounds in Nursing, Business Administration, and Communications and more than a decade of experience across emergency, acute, behavioral health, post-acute, payer, and value-based care settings. She began her career in the emergency department and later worked with medically and socially complex populations, experiences that taught her to look beyond the clinical record, understand the barriers affecting a person's health, and build care around the person behind the diagnosis.
While working in Boston, Jenelle joined the One Care program and discovered a different way of thinking about healthcare, one centered on treating the whole person and bringing clinical, behavioral health, and community-based teams together around shared goals and accountability. She carried those principles into leadership roles, partnering with hospital executives, physicians, clinical teams, and operational leaders to design strategies for high-risk populations, strengthen care coordination and discharge planning, improve level-of-care and length-of-stay management, and identify opportunities to improve both outcomes and cost.
Her belief in connected care became deeply personal when Jenelle was diagnosed with cancer. As a patient relying on multiple specialists, she experienced firsthand how much communication, collaboration, and coordination across disciplines mattered. The interdisciplinary care she received played a meaningful role in her recovery and reinforced a conviction that had been building throughout her career: no patient should have to navigate fragmented care alone. Today, Jenelle is cancer-free.
Those experiences as a clinician, healthcare leader, and patient ultimately led Jenelle to found Halo Health Connect, built on a simple belief: when care is truly connected, people experience better outcomes. Her work is grounded in the same values that shape her personal life: connection, resilience, and community. Jenelle resides in Lake Nona with her husband, Dr. Jason Crespo, and together they have two daughters, Sofia and Scarlett. She values time with her large extended family and close-knit community and finds joy in traveling, exploring new restaurants, and getting lost in a good thriller.