Healthcare’s role in creating healthy communities through increasing access to quality care, research, and grantmaking is being complemented by a higher impact approach; hospitals and integrated health systems are increasingly stepping outside of their walls to address the social, economic, and environmental conditions that contribute to poor health outcomes, shortened lives, and higher costs in the first place. Can hospitals and health systems heal America’s communities? This paper, written by Tyler Norris, Vice President of Total Health Partnerships at Kaiser Permanente, and Ted Howard, President and co-founder of The Democracy Collaborative, illuminates the possibilities and explores how “all in for mission” is the emerging healthcare model.
