Getting Health Care Right

In the latest episode of Getting Health Care Right, a podcast brought to you by TriHealth and the Cincinnati Business Courier, Jill Miller, president and CEO of bi3, is joined by Dr. Meredith Smith, executive director of Cradle Cincinnati.  The two recently co-wrote a book called “Infant Mortality and Other Wicked Problems,” which details how Cincinnati organizations joined forces to tackle the ci...

Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . In the Greater Cincinnati area, about 91% of parents view their child’s mental health as good, very good or excellent. But 39% of area youth responded that they feel anxious all or most of the time.  The findings were gathered from fall 2023 through spring 2024 as part the Greater Cincinnati Youth Me...

Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, Dr. Joseph Bailey, a TriHealth pediatrician, says he has seen an uptick in children and teens experiencing mental health challenges.  Anecdotally, Bailey says he refers three to five patients to a mental health specialist each day.  In the latest episode of t...

Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Paula Berryman, a TriHealth patient who was diagnosed with breast cancer in October 2020, describes her cancer journey as “90% emotional and spiritual and 10% physical.” In the latest episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast, Berryman and Stacey Reese, clinical manager of TriHealth’s Psychoso...

Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Women experiencing menopause are a fast-growing U.S. workforce demographic, but the topic of women’s health is often stigmatized.  In the latest episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast, Dr. Betsy LeRoy, a TriHealth OB-GYN, and her patient, Dr. Kristen DeMarco, a TriHealth pediatrician, discu...

Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . TriHealth patient Patti Needham felt “miserable” before her primary care physician connected her with two TriHealth programs as part of their value-based care model. Under this model, Needham’s providers collaborated to ensure she received high quality care in managing diabetes and weight loss.  In t...

Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Precision medicine involves a highly individualized approach to health care, whether it’s prevention, diagnosis or treatment. The fact that technology has evolved to such a point makes for an exciting time in medicine, according to Courtney Rice, director of precision medicine and genetic counselor w...

Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.   Many college campuses across the country have partnered with a local health care organization to provide student health services, according to Jean Griffin, dean of students at Xavier University. But Xavier’s partnership with TriHealth is different, she says in this episode of the Getting Health Car...

Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Improving behavioral health in the Cincinnati community is not a task to be undertaken lightly, according to Jill Miller, president and CEO of Bethesda Inc. and bi3, in the latest episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast. “This is not an issue we can solve in a year or three years. This is go...

Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. TriHealth patient Drew Abbott felt his blood pressure rising when he was closing a high-stress business deal. When he put on the blood pressure cuff at home that evening, he knew he had a serious issue: his blood pressure measured over 200 .  “My PCP made some changes to my medication, but this did no...

  Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.   Pulmonary embolism kills more patients than HIV, breast cancer and motor vehicle accidents combined, according TriHealth’s Dr. Chris Hayner, a specialist in critical care and pulmonology,  in the latest episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast.    “It’s a fairly prominent problem, and for...

Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify .   The uptick in celebrations around the holiday season can also mean an uptick in stressors for many — and a resulting uptick in employee assistance program (EAP) use, according to Diane Pipes, LISW-S, manager of well-being services for TriHealth, on this episode of Getting Health Care Right.    Pipe...

Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . Humans are hardwired to want to belong to groups. Many organizations have widened their inclusivity efforts to prioritize a sense of belonging for employees at every level.  At TriHealth, this work may be using a newer name (“belonging”), but it is tied to the health system’s value system and has bee...

Never miss an episode of Getting Health Care Right. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify . On-site health care services can offer many benefits to Cincinnati-area employers, including convenience, cost savings and enhanced employee benefit offerings.  “It’s a win-win for an employee to be able to seek care in real time during work hours in a convenient location,” says Dr. Malia Harper, med...

Never miss an episode of Off the Record. Subscribe today on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.   Cooler temperatures mean the respiratory virus season is not far behind. But the incidence of COVID-19  may not be as dramatic as years past, according to Dr. Stephen Blatt, TriHealth medical director for infectious diseases, on the first episode in Getting Health Care Right’s second season.    “We’re evolving...

Beacon Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine has partnered with TriHealth for decades, but last year, the organizations came together as part of a “conversation that was a long time coming,” according to Andy Blankemeyer, CEO at Beacon, in this episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast.  “We are now co-invested in surgery centers across Cincinnati. Our existing surgery centers as well as TriHe...

A heart failure diagnosis can be frightening for many patients. But TriHealth’s Advanced Heart Failure program is in the business of offering hope for that diagnosis, according to Dr. Sateesh Kesari, advanced heart failure transplant cardiologist with TriHealth, in this episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast. “The reality is, there’s a 50%, five-year mortality associated with that (diagn...

When Ohio House Bill 371 passed last year, insurance companies had to start paying for additional screenings beyond the traditional mammogram for patients with a higher risk of breast cancer. TriHealth patient Jenny Dermody called the additional imaging coverage “a huge blessing” in this episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast. She took advantage and got a 3D mammogram after her regular o...

In the U.S., chronic pain is the most common symptom leading patients to their physicians, according to Dr. Sara Nashi, a TriHealth physician who specializes in pain management, in this podcast episode of Getting Health Care Right.  “Actually, 25% of the population will have back pain in a given year, and up to 80% of the population will have low back pain during their lifetime,” Nashi says.  In t...

There’s a connection between issues like race and ethnicity and how well chronic conditions are managed, according to Terri Hanlon-Bremer, COO of TriHealth, in this episode of the Getting Health Care Right podcast.  “When you look at typical chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension and COPD, where people of color are not having the same outcomes as Caucasian (patients), we can actually pi...

As the fitness supervisor at TriHealth's Fitness and Health Pavilion, Amy Hilderbran knows not everyone looks forward to exercise — but she says she hasn't met someone yet who claims they don't feel better after working out.  “You might be a little bit sore. But emotionally and mentally, you feel better. The endorphins are firing, you’re able to move more fluidly. And that’s why we...

A diabetes diagnosis puts a patient at a critical juncture in their lives. It simply cannot be ignored. In the short term, uncontrolled diabetes can negatively impact mood, energy level and sleep quality, according to Dawn LaRochelle, certified diabetes care and education specialist and registered dietitian at TriHealth, in this episode of Getting Health Care Right. Longer term, the effects can be...

In December, TriHealth announced an affiliation with the top-ranked Cleveland Clinic Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute with the goal of building on its regionally leading heart and vascular program and delivering the highest quality of care possible to patients.  “TriHealth will continue to see its own patients, but we’ll be collaborating on optimizing patient care,” says Dr. Suma Thomas, v...

Major insurers are increasingly tying health care reimbursement to patient outcomes, provider performance and overall patient satisfaction — an approach to financing that is foundational to population health.    “The beauty of population health is, you get paid for achieving health outcomes, so (patients) get good value for the care received, and everybody benefits,” says TriHealth’s COO Terri Han...

Living independently can be challenging for individuals who have suffered a neurological injury, disease or disorder. Cincinnati-based InReturn has set a mission to enrich the lives of these individuals through job and learning opportunities. One particularly successful program stems from InReturn’s partnership with TriHealth Corporate Health and focuses on wellness education — the kind which goes...