Join the Pathways to Population Health (P2PH) Movement by taking the PULSE survey! P2PH is a collaborative led by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s 100 Million Healthier Lives, which includes health systems and key networks (including Stakeholder Health) and is designed to help health care organizations make progress in their work […]
Doug Easterling is a Professor in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy at Wake Forest School of Medicine, and served as department chair from 2005-2015. His research and consulting focus on community-based approaches to improving health and quality of life, with a special emphasis on the work of foundations. Over the […]
By Teresa Cutts The inaugural See2See Road Trip conducted by Stakeholder Health ended Wednesday, at the waters of beautiful Wrightsville Beach of Wilmington, NC. This odyssey started on the other coast of San Diego, by another great body of water. We learned that what appears as two oceans is really one, just as we saw […]
By Jim Cochrane CitySquare: a riffed mix between a metal-clad warehouse and a retro architect’s office building, and a potent center of activities for the homeless of Dallas. No mere warehouse or office, it’s a fabulous mix of services, facilities and people that reaches far beyond what anyone can see. “We fight the causes and […]
By Gary Gunderson Thanksgiving is dense with ambiguity on the Mississippi Delta. Hard not to be thankful walking around The Delta Health Center and its ground made sacred by the work of John Hatch and Jack Geiger in Mound Bayou. And of the generations of freed slaves who plowed […]
“Winnie the Bago” or “Jaba the Bago,” it’s well worth taking the trip! By Teresa Cutts Our fantasy of “hours of thoughtful conversations and discernment on the road” was precluded by being in a noisy RV (which we nicknamed variously “Winnie the Bago” or “Jaba the Bago” depending on our level of grumpiness) […]
By Jim Cochrane with Gary Gunderson This trip began amid the historic California fires and will end in the still sandy flood plains of Wilmington, still wet from the unprecedented hurricane. Stakeholder Health includes the Adventist hospital in Paradise where friends and relatives friends who have lost everything. Jerry Winslow, Stakeholder Health Chair, shared an […]
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. — Ecclesiastes 1:9 By Jeremy Moseley As I reflect on my time visiting with forward-thinking communities, people, and community health programs in San Diego, Loma Linda, Phoenix, and Tucson, I […]
By Teresa Cutts Elvis Presley’s iconic hit “Love Me Tender” comes to mind when I think of Three Precious Miracles, a small, but mighty, grassroots organization started by Elisia and Tecumseh Manuel in Sacaton, Arizona. The lyrics of “Love me tender. Love me true. Never let me go,” reminds of the mission of this family, […]
By Jim Cochrane Things take time to gestate, and there is no guarantee they will make it. They will need good earth and water to grow well and strong. This is one way of seeing the work of Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC), whose newly appointed Clinical Director, Elias Burboa […]
