Dr. Dan Morhaim and I provide an episode of our series from Defining Health Equity we call, “Dr. Dan from Inside the ER.” Dr. Dan is virtually (6) guests in one – 40 years of front-line clinical experience, including as an emergency room physician – cannot get more frontline than that, healthcare entrepreneur, a former 24-year state legislator, author, national speaker, and professor.

In this episode we provide data around clinical outcomes demonstrating what happens when the "bottom line" supercedes clinical care. Be sure to "fact-check" us as is our policy to cite the data, not the "opinions:"

• The plundering of America's Hospitals - When hospitals sold off their land, investors got rich patients paid the price, Business Insider, Bethany McLean, March 11, 2024
• January 30, 2023, Salve Lucrum: The Existential Threat of Greed in US Health Care Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, JAMA. 2023;329(8):629-630. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.0846
• Pocketing Money Meant for Kids: Private Equity in Autism Services CEPR – Center for Economic and Policy Research, July, 2023 Batt, Applebaum, and Nguyn
• Batt Research Shows Private Equity Profiting Off Autism, Cornell University, ILR School, Jul 26, 2023
• Study: Private Equity Hospital Takeovers Tied to Increases in Patient Falls, Infections, CEPR – Center for Economic and Policy Research, July, 2023 Batt, Applebaum, and Nguyn
• Changes in Hospital Adverse Events and Patient Outcomes Associated With Private Equity Acquisition, December 26, 2023,
• Pooling health insurance could save Maryland millions, By Dan Morhaim, Baltimore Sun, 3/15/2024

Enjoy the episode and learn more about Dr. Dan via https://www.thebetterend.com/ and danmorhaim@gmail.com.

David Chernov is a healthcare leader with over 30 years of experience, a founding member, and the former Executive Director of a multi-health system coalition. In this capacity, he was directly responsible for spearheading the funding, development, and execution of organizational policies to support multiple grants funded by federal and state agencies including the CDC, HRSA, and the state of Maryland.

Contact or comments (+/-) about this podcast to David Chernov at dchernov@maconsultingco.com, text 301-788-2237, or visit our website at defininghealthequity.buzzsprout.com

Dr. Howard Haft is an expert on the two topics discussed in this episode - Primary Care and Public Health. More importantly and what makes this conversation so compelling is that Dr. Haft did not spend his entire career in state government – not that that is bad of course…but Dr. Haft actually started his career in primary care, and in fact, was the CEO of a medical group – so, and here is what is important - Dr. Haft has lived experience in both areas we are about to discuss today.

Bonus material - Dr. Haft's latest publication - Considerations for Statewide Advanced Primary Care Programs

Be sure to continue to fact-check our show and keep your comments coming!
Measles Cases and Outbreaks https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html

Improving COVID-19 Outcomes for Medicare Beneficiaries: APublic Health–Supported Advanced Primary Care Paradigm

HRSA, State of the Primary Care Workforce, November 2023

David Chernov is a healthcare leader with over 30 years of experience, a founding member, and the former Executive Director of a multi-health system coalition. In this capacity, he was directly responsible for spearheading the funding, development, and execution of organizational policies to support multiple grants funded by federal and state agencies including the CDC, HRSA, and the state of Maryland.

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If you or anybody you know is suffering from mental illness contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline - just dial 988 or click here

We hear a great deal about depression today, but what is the real impact to our society? Hear from a patient and medical student managing this disease who has dedicated her life to answer this question.

Bruny Kenou graduated from Duke University in 2020 with a Distinction in Neuroscience and minors in Psychology and Chemistry. At the the NIH Molecular Neuroimaging lab Bruny worked with radiotracers to investigate novel therapeutics for neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases. Bruny's lived experience with mental illness has made her an advocate for fighting stigma and increasing access to adequate mental health care for marginalized populations.

Bruny also helped create a peer-to-peer mental health support program called DukeLine, and since graduating she volunteers as a Data Analyst for Lean On Me, a non-profit peer mental health support organization. Bruny currently serves as an advisor to one of the largest Mental Health Advocacy Organizations in the US, the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and can be reached at brunykenou@gmail.com.

Rick Chapman brings decades of health economics and outcomes research expertise to his role as Chief Science Officer for The Innovation and Value Initiative (IVI). Prior to his role at IVI, Rich was Director of Health Economics at the Institute for Clinical and Economic Review, where he led the development of economic evaluations that accompanied rigorous reviews of clinical evidence. Rick holds a Ph.D. in health policy with a concentration in decision sciences from Harvard University. He also holds an MS in health policy and management from the Harvard School of Public Health. Rick can be reached at rick.chapman@thevalueinitiative.org. Learn more about The Innovation and Value Initiative here.

Learn more about the economic burden of adults with major depressive order and the article cited in the podcast here

David Chernov is a healthcare leader with over 30 years of experience, a founding member, and the former Executive Director of a multi-health system coalition. In this capacity, he was directly responsible for spearheading the funding, development, and execution of organizational policies to support multiple grants funded by federal and state agencies including the CDC, HRSA, and the state of Maryland.

Contact or comments (+/-) about this podcast to David Chernov at dchernov@maconsultingco.com, text 301-788-2237, or visit our website at defininghealthequity.buzzsprout.com

Dr. Fakunle opens his heart and vast personal experiences in this episode to discuss stressors within the "built" environment, societal manifestations of racism, and the use of arts and culture to strengthen health, equity, and ultimately, liberation. Among many affiliations, Dr. Fakunle is co-founder and CEO of DiscoverME/RecoverME, an organization that utilizes the African oral tradition to empower use of storytelling for healing and growth, serves as Executive Director of WombWork Productions, a Baltimore-based social change performing arts company, and serves as Chair of the Maryland Lynching Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the first state-level commission in the U.S. dedicated to chronicling and bringing justice to racial terror lynchings.

Find out more about David Olawuyi Fakunle, Ph.D. here, and be sure to watch this.

David Chernov is a healthcare leader with over 30 years of experience, a founding member, and the former Executive Director of a multi-health system coalition. In this capacity, he was directly responsible for spearheading the funding, development, and execution of organizational policies to support multiple grants funded by federal and state agencies including the CDC, HRSA, and the state of Maryland.

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"Iron deficiency: the most common malady on the planet. Once known as “iron-poor blood,” this condition is more serious and widespread than most people imagine. Its more advanced form – known as iron deficiency anemia – this condition affects approximately 50% of women overall and up to 90% of pregnant women, especially minority and poorer women."
Join us as we discuss this crisis and the implications for babies born to these women with Dr. Michael Auerbach, Hematologist-Oncologist, an internationally recognized researcher in the treatment of iron deficiency, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Georgetown University School of Medicine.
Learn more here:

David Chernov is a healthcare leader with over 30 years of experience, a founding member, and the former Executive Director of a multi-health system coalition. In this capacity, he was directly responsible for spearheading the funding, development, and execution of organizational policies to support multiple grants funded by federal and state agencies including the CDC, HRSA, and the state of Maryland.

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What are the "REAL" value and costs of healthcare? Is it only the cost of your physician visit, hospital stay, and/or prescriptions? And, who decided on these costs?
In this episode, we talk to Dr. Jason Spangler who has spent his life trying to answer these questions. Dr. Spangler's travels all over the world led him to lead a company studying just that. Spoiler alert - we find out from Dr. Spangler that the most important input to the "value equation" is missing - the patient - you! Better, Dr. Spangler and his team depend on hearing from you - our listeners, to share your experiences with the healthcare system to help Dr. Spangler's company learn more about the true "value" in our healthcare system to make a major "health equity" shift in the system to factor in all the "costs" of healthcare, especially in the communities in need and people of color in the US.
Feel free to reach out to Dr. Spangler at info@thevalueinitiative.org.

David Chernov is a healthcare leader with over 30 years of experience, a founding member, and the former Executive Director of a multi-health system coalition. In this capacity, he was directly responsible for spearheading the funding, development, and execution of organizational policies to support multiple grants funded by federal and state agencies including the CDC, HRSA, and the state of Maryland.

Contact or comments (+/-) about this podcast to David Chernov at dchernov@maconsultingco.com, text 301-788-2237, or visit our website at defininghealthequity.buzzsprout.com

We have been talking about the "epidemic" of drugs, its origin, and its disproportionate effect on health equity, especially in communities of color. In previous episodes with Dr. Dan Morhaim, we discussed the clinical and legislative issues - now in Part 1 of this discussion, we look at the law enforcement side of drugs with a former high-level DEA official. Is there another side to this story? You bet and get ready for Part 2 when we discuss how the worldwide drug distribution ships drugs all over the world, what "policing the police" looks like, and how Mr. Colder became the first African American to lead a police force in West Virginia.

Karl C. Colder is President Colder Allied Consulting, LLC, and can be reached at kc.coldersr@verizon.net.

David Chernov is a healthcare leader with over 30 years of experience, a founding member, and the former Executive Director of a multi-health system coalition. In this capacity, he was directly responsible for spearheading the funding, development, and execution of organizational policies to support multiple grants funded by federal and state agencies including the CDC, HRSA, and the state of Maryland.

Contact or comments (+/-) about this podcast to David Chernov at dchernov@maconsultingco.com, text 301-788-2237, or visit our website at defininghealthequity.buzzsprout.com

Dr. Dan Morhaim and I provide an episode of our new series from Defining Health Equity we call, “Dr. Dan from Inside the ER.” Dr. Dan is virtually (6) guests in one – 40 years of front-line clinical experience, including as an emergency room physician – cannot get more frontline than that, healthcare entrepreneur, a former 24-year state legislator, author, national speaker, and professor.

In PART 2 of this podcast we talk about the War on Drugs, specifically the link between the failed drug policies we discussed in Part 1 (episode 11) to crime and the "business" of drugs.

Enjoy the episode and learn more about Dr. Dan via https://www.thebetterend.com/ and danmorhaim@gmail.com.

David Chernov is a healthcare leader with over 30 years of experience, a founding member, and the former Executive Director of a multi-health system coalition. In this capacity, he was directly responsible for spearheading the funding, development, and execution of organizational policies to support multiple grants funded by federal and state agencies including the CDC, HRSA, and the state of Maryland.

Contact or comments (+/-) about this podcast to David Chernov at dchernov@maconsultingco.com, text 301-788-2237, or visit our website at defininghealthequity.buzzsprout.com