Relocalizing Health with Dave Chase
Where local voices lead a national healthcare revolution.
A show hosted by Dave Chase spotlighting the real-world leaders — doctors, employers, and reformers — rebuilding American healthcare from the ground up. One town, one clinic, one breakthrough at a time.
Neighborhoods as Patients
Welcome to Relocalizing Health. In this episode, Dave Chase explores the powerful connection between neighborhood cohesion and health with guest Seth Kaplan, author of Fragile Neighborhoods. Over recent decades, American communities have suffered from declining local relationships, and with no meani...
How Employer Cooperatives Are Fixing America's Healthcare Cost Crisis
Welcome to Relocalizing Health, where we explore the transformative power of community-driven healthcare reforms. In today’s episode, guest Lee Lewis and host Dave Chase challenge long-held beliefs about healthcare being an uncontrollable cost and reveal how employers, by banding together in coopera...
What Advisors, Employers, and Community Leaders Will Actually Find in This Book
This episode is for the person who has been following this series and wants to know what is actually inside Relocalizing Health before they read it, and what they will walk away able to do differently. Dave Chase addresses three specific audiences directly. For advisors: the book is a field manual f...
The Employers Who Cracked the Code, And Why Their Stories Are in the Book
This episode walks through the Rosie Award winners and the case studies that make up the appendix of Relocalizing Health — the documented proof that the model described in this book is not theoretical. Dave Chase walks through what the Rosie Awards actually represent: employers and public sector org...
What Relocalizing Health Actually Means
When people hear the phrase relocalizing health, a lot of them assume it is a slogan, a policy proposal, or someone's political talking point. This episode explains what it actually means. Dave Chase defines it plainly: treating your community's healthcare dollars as a community resource instead of ...
Why I Spent Ten Years Writing This Book: Relocalizing Health Taking Back Healthcare. Rebuilding Communities.
The short version is that a close friend died from a preventable medical error and left behind a ten-year-old daughter. That is where this started. But the longer version, the one Dave tells in this episode, is about what that loss made him unable to stop noticing. How the system he had spent his ca...
Case Study: A Secretary Died Avoiding a $1,500 Deductible. Wisconsin Built Something So It Would Never Happen Again.
In 2011, Patrick Blackholder was the CFO and COO at Rice Lake Area School District in northwest Wisconsin. Facing a mandated budget cut, he built a $1,500 deductible into the health plan. It seemed reasonable. It seemed responsible. A secretary came to his office. Her husband was out of work. Bills ...
Case Study: The Poorest County in Ohio Kept $450 Million Home and Changed Everything
Ashtabula County, Ohio. One of the poorest counties in the state. A medical desert. One primary care doctor for every 3,500 residents against a national average of one per 1,300. At least 30,000 people living in medical debt. And $1.4 billion flowing through that county every year, with at least $45...
How Can Community-Driven Healthcare Transform Costs and Outcomes?
Welcome to Relocalizing Health! In this episode, Dave Chase sits down with Claire Brockbank, a trailblazer in transforming healthcare costs and outcomes through community-driven strategies. From helping Colorado’s mountain towns slash exorbitant insurance prices with Peak Health Alliance to leading ...
Case Study: The Clinic That Started in an Accounting Office and Saved $570 Million - Rosen Hotels, Orlando
Rosen Hotels & Resorts is a family hospitality company in Orlando, Florida, built by Harris Rosen, the son of immigrants who grew up on New York's Lower East Side. During the oil crisis in the 1970s, he bought a bankrupt Quality Inn on International Drive with a modest down payment and a lot of nerv...