Live at HLTH: Partnerships + Prevention = Value-Driven Care — featuring Katie Adamson of YMCA of the USA

The Beat

English - February 19, 2020 16:51 - 27 minutes - 25.8 MB
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Partnerships + Prevention = Value-Driven Care—featuring Katie Adamson of YMCA of the USA

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And as we make the shift from volume-based to value-driven care, the formal healthcare system needs to partner with community organizations like the YMCA to implement the prevention programs that will both save money and improve patient outcomes.

Katie Adamson is the Vice President of Health Partnerships and Policy at the YMCA of the USA, the national resource office for the nation’s 2,700 YMCAs. She is responsible for advancing healthy living legislative and advocacy strategies on the national, state and local levels as well as assisting with congressional, government and health partnerships. Before joining the Y, Katie spent several years as a managing director of public law and policy strategies at law firms in DC, drafting legislation and lobbying for a number of chronic disease and disability nonprofits.

On this episode of The Beat, recorded live at HLTH 2020, Katie joins Dr. Gulati to share her background in government and nonprofit fundraising, explaining how it informs her work at the Y around partnerships and health policy.

She weighs in on the Y’s partnerships with the CDC, UnitedHealth and the IHI to execute their childhood obesity and diabetes prevention initiatives, discussing why it’s a challenge for the Y to connect with the formal healthcare system. Listen in for Katie’s insight on the relationship between social connectedness and health and learn how the Y is working to sell prevention to the medical community.

Topics Covered

How Katie’s experience with childhood arthritis informs her workKatie’s background in government + raising money for nonprofitsThe YMCA’s 2,700 locations in 10K communities around the worldWhat the Y understands about the power of relationshipsThe Y’s potential role in the shift to value-driven careThe Y’s partnerships to tackle childhood obesity and prediabetesWhy it’s a challenge for the Y to connect with the healthcare systemThe concept of health detailing to sell prevention to doctorsThe potential for health innovators to test products at a local YHow Katie is inspired by Malcolm Gladwell and Rishi Manchanda

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