Forbes December 6, 2019
Dr. Miriam A Knoll, M.D.

Should your health insurance company build a movie theater? Should your physician buy you a refrigerator?

Kevin E. Lofton, CEO of CommonSpirit Health, shared that’s exactly what CommonSpirit Health did in a community in Minnesota and Calorado. Teens were traveling 70 miles to catch a movie—and also endangering their health while driving in unsafe weather. So they built a movie theater in the community. At Forbes Healthcare Summit yesterday, Lofton shared the story of a patient who kept going to the ER. Then, he enrolled in the “Total Health Roadmap,” a program where patients are cared for by social workers, health coaches, and nurse practitioners. He received a home visit and was found to have a broken refrigerator and no...

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