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Getting Health Care Right
Author: TriHealth and Cincinnati Business Courier
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Getting Health Care Right is a podcast about the business of health care, brought to you by TriHealth in partnership with the Cincinnati Business Courier. In this podcast, we explore changes being made by some health systems to provide care differently and in a way that benefits patients, employers and entire communities — all while costing less than traditional health care delivery. It’s about getting health care right.
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In the latest episode of Getting Health Care Right, a podcast brought to you by TriHealth and the Cincinnati Business Courier, Jill Miller, president and CEO of bi3, is joined by Dr. Meredith Smith, executive director of Cradle Cincinnati. The two recently co-wrote a book called “Infant Mortality and Other Wicked Problems,” which details how Cincinnati organizations joined forces to tackle the city’s high infant mortality rate. “I don't think everybody knows that a community's i...
Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. In the Greater Cincinnati area, about 91% of parents view their child’s mental health as good, very good or excellent. But 39% of area youth responded that they feel anxious all or most of the time. The findings were gathered from fall 2023 through spring 2024 as part the Greater Cincinnati Youth Mental Well-Being assessment by Hopeful Empowered Youth (HEY!), a bi3-funded initiative. bi3 se...
Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Joseph Bailey, a TriHealth pediatrician, says he has seen an uptick in children and teens experiencing mental health challenges. Anecdotally, Bailey says he refers three to five patients to a mental health specialist each day. In the latest episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast, Bailey and Dr. Gabrielle Paul, a TriHealth child a...
Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Paula Berryman, a TriHealth patient who was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2020, describes her cancer journey as “90% emotional and spiritual and 10% physical.” In the latest episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast, Berryman and Stacey Reese, clinical manager of TriHealth’s Psychosocial Oncology Program, discuss the free behavioral health service offered to TriHealth cancer pati...
Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Women experiencing menopause are a fast-growing U.S. workforce demographic, but the topic of women’s health is often stigmatized. In the latest episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast, Dr. Betsy LeRoy, a TriHealth OB-GYN, and her patient, Dr. Kristen DeMarco, a TriHealth pediatrician, discuss the symptoms of menopause and the conversations that need to be had in the workplace to en...
Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. TriHealth patient Patti Needham felt “miserable” before her primary care physician connected her with two TriHealth programs as part of their value-based care model. Under this model, Needham’s providers collaborated to ensure she received high quality care in managing diabetes and weight loss. In the latest episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast, Needham discusses her health care...
Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Precision medicine involves a highly individualized approach to health care, whether it’s prevention, diagnosis or treatment. The fact that technology has evolved to such a point makes for an exciting time in medicine, according to Courtney Rice, director of precision medicine and genetic counselor with TriHealth, on the latest episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast. “The first Hu...
Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Many college campuses across the country have partnered with a local health care organization to provide student health services, according to Jean Griffin, dean of students at Xavier University. But Xavier’s partnership with TriHealth is different, she says in this episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast. It’s more multifaceted —and Terri Hanlon-Bremer, EVP and COO of TriHealth, ...
Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Improving behavioral health in the Cincinnati community is not a task to be undertaken lightly, according to Jill Miller, president and CEO of Bethesda Inc. and bi3, in the latest episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast. “This is not an issue we can solve in a year or three years. This is going to take decades-long commitment and work,” says Miller. Miller discusses barriers ...
Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. TriHealth patient Drew Abbott felt his blood pressure rising when he was closing a high-stress business deal. When he put on the blood pressure cuff at home that evening, he knew he had a serious issue: his blood pressure measured over 200. “My PCP made some changes to my medication, but this did not seem to fix the problem,” Abbott says in the latest episode of Getting Health Care Righ...
Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Pulmonary embolism kills more patients than HIV, breast cancer and motor vehicle accidents combined, according TriHealth’s Dr. Chris Hayner, a specialist in critical care and pulmonology, in the latest episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast. “It’s a fairly prominent problem, and for probably 40 years, we really only had two forms of treatment — either to...
Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. The uptick in celebrations around the holiday season can also mean an uptick in stressors for many — and a resulting uptick in employee assistance program (EAP) use, according to Diane Pipes, LISW-S, manager of well-being services for TriHealth, on this episode of Getting Health Care Right. Pipes says it’s a good idea to help employees pre-plan for high-stress incidents. “How ...
Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Humans are hardwired to want to belong to groups. Many organizations have widened their inclusivity efforts to prioritize a sense of belonging for employees at every level. At TriHealth, this work may be using a newer name (“belonging”), but it is tied to the health system’s value system and has been part of its leaders’ commitment to the community since the mid-1990s, according to Mark...
Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. On-site health care services can offer many benefits to Cincinnati-area employers, including convenience, cost savings and enhanced employee benefit offerings. “It’s a win-win for an employee to be able to seek care in real time during work hours in a convenient location,” says Dr. Malia Harper, medical director for TriHealth, in this episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast.&nb...
Never miss an episode of Off the Record. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Cooler temperatures mean the respiratory virus season is not far behind. But the incidence of COVID-19 may not be as dramatic as years past, according to Dr. Stephen Blatt, TriHealth medical director for infectious diseases, on the first episode in Getting Health Care Right’s second season. “We’re evolving into an endemic period so that over 95% of the people in the country are at ...
Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine has partnered with TriHealth for decades, but last year, the organizations came together as part of a “conversation that was a long time coming,” according to Andy Blankemeyer, CEO at Beacon, in this episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast. “We are now co-invested in surgery centers across Cincinnati. Our existing surgery centers as well as TriHealth’s existing Evendale Hospital are now all part of a joint venture, and we have combine...
A heart failure diagnosis can be frightening for many patients. But TriHealth’s Advanced Heart Failure program is in the business of offering hope for that diagnosis, according to Dr. Sateesh Kesari, advanced heart failure transplant cardiologist with TriHealth, in this episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast. “The reality is, there’s a 50%, five-year mortality associated with that (diagnosis), similar to what we see with cancer,” says Kesari. “But there are a lot of great therapies ...
When Ohio House Bill 371 passed last year, insurance companies had to start paying for additional screenings beyond the traditional mammogram for patients with a higher risk of breast cancer. TriHealth patient Jenny Dermody called the additional imaging coverage “a huge blessing” in this episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast. She took advantage and got a 3D mammogram after her regular one last fall — and the team found lobular carcinoma. Dermody shares her story in this episode...
In the U.S., chronic pain is the most common symptom leading patients to their physicians, according to Dr. Sara Nashi, a TriHealth physician who specializes in pain management, in this podcast episode of Getting Health Care Right. “Actually, 25% of the population will have back pain in a given year, and up to 80% of the population will have low back pain during their lifetime,” Nashi says. In the episode, Nashi’s patient, Brenda White, shares her challenges with back pain in ...
There’s a connection between issues like race and ethnicity and how well chronic conditions are managed, according to Terri Hanlon-Bremer, COO of TriHealth, in this episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast. “When you look at typical chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and COPD, where people of color are not having the same outcomes as Caucasian (patients), we can actually pinpoint where we have those variances in our own organization,” Hanlon-Bremer says. “What t...



