American Hospital Association April 29, 2024
Joanne M. Conroy, M.D., Chair, American Hospital Association

In today’s episode, I talk with Lynn Todman, vice president of health equity and community partnerships at Corewell Health. Our discussion focuses on the many facets of addressing social drivers that can affect a person’s ability to access or achieve optimal health and the ways hospitals and health systems can work with community partners to advance health equity.

Lynn observes: “We can do fantastic clinical work and generate wonderful clinical outcomes. But people go home — they go back to their neighborhoods, houses, places of worship, work or school — and that’s where they spend most of their time. We have to make sure those environments support the wonderful clinical outcomes that we’re trying to generate.”

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