How Do You Help Patients Who Show Up in the ER 100 Times a Year?

Some patients’ lives are so complicated by trauma, poverty and other social problems that routine conditions like diabetes and asthma regularly turn into $10,000 hospital visits. America’s health care leaders have spent years trying to help this small but costly group of patients. What have they learned?

Guests: Jeff Brenner, MD, CEO, The Jewish Board Arthur Brown, Client, Camden Coalition Amy Finkelstein, PhD, Professor of Economics, MIT; Co-Scientific Director, J-PAL North America Allison Hamblin, MSPH, President and CEO, Center for Health Care Strategies Paula Lantz, PhD, Professor of Health Policy, University of Michigan Larry Moore, Client, Camden Coalition Kathleen Noonan, JD, President and CEO, Camden Coalition Dottie Scott, Community Health Worker, Camden Coalition Brian Thompson, Housing Coordinator, Camden Coalition Leslie Walker, Senior Producer/Reporter, Tradeoffs

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