Wed.Mar 31, 2021

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Housing as Prescription for Health/Care – in Medecision Liberation

Health Populi

COVID-19 ushered in the era of our homes as safe havens for work, shopping, education, fitness-awaking, bread-baking, and health-making. In my latest essay written for Medecision, I weave together new and important data and evidence supporting the basic social determinant of health — shelter, housing, home — and some innovations supporting housing-as-medicine from CVS Health, UnitedHealth Group, AHIP, Brookings Institution, the Urban Land Institute, and other stakeholders learning ho

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Time to Discuss a “Health Equity Moonshot”

Healthcare Leadership Council

This month, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee held a hearing on the health inequities witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The topics discussed in that hearing warrant our sustained attention. I’m particularly focused on the testimony of Eugene Woods , the president and CEO of Atrium Health (a Healthcare Leadership Council member), a North Carolina-based health system.