WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: November 3, 2011 Featuring: Rick Foster, MD, Senior Vice President of Quality and Patient Safety, South Carolina Hospital Association Kate B. Hilton, Director, Organizing for Health; Principal in Practice for Leading Change at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University Landis Landon, President, Immaculate Merchant Services; Resident, Columbia, South Carolina In August 2011, a very different sort of town hall meeting was held in Columbia, South Carolina. About 90 people who shared the zip code 29203 sat down to talk about the health issues they faced. The list was long: lack of dental care, colon cancer, breast cancer, diabetes, heart disease, stroke, mental illness, low birth weight babies, and more. Any one of these issues is worthy of attention; indeed, in most parts of the US, you can find initiatives trying to either prevent or reduce the burden of specific diseases that affect specific individuals. But what if the approach was more comprehensive and more widespread