Relocalizing Health with Dave Chase

Welcome back to Relocalizing Health. In this episode, host Dave Chase sits down with Charles Marohn, founder of Strong Towns and renowned author, to explore what it truly means for a town to be "strong." Drawing analogies from the built environment and decades of on-the-ground civic work, Chuck shares how robust communities rely not just on fiscal sustainability or infrastructure, but on...

Welcome to another episode of Relocalizing Health. Today, we explore how something as simple as rethinking medical imaging can spark a transformation in employer-sponsored healthcare, creating real wins for employees, employers, and communities alike. Host Dave Chase is joined by Dr. Cristin A. Dickerson, a radiologist and founder of Green Imaging, whose innovative approach has brought bundled tra...

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 meaningful incentive to make neighborhoods better, both public and private institutions have unintentio...

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 cooperatives, are not just cutting expenses but improving care quality and outcomes. Drawing inspiration fr...

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 for building fiduciary-grade plans that hold up under scrutiny. It covers the contractual language th...

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 organizations evaluated on real Plan Grader scores and real reinvestment of savings through the Health...

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 an extractive expense that leaves town the moment it is spent. Most communities, healthcar...

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 career inside, building technology for health systems and working at the intersection of healthcare an...

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 had stacked up. She said plainly: I cannot afford $1,500. I will not use it. Two years later, she di...

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 $450 million of it being extracted out to distant corporations. This is the story of what happened when...

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 one of the largest union health funds in the nation at 32BJ, Claire Brockbank has proven that local...

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 nerve. By the early 90s he had built a real company. And like every other employer in America,...

In the late 1990s, the Alaska Native Medical Center was a tuberculosis sanatorium turned healthcare facility where elders described themselves not as people, but as numbers. One elder remembered it clearly: "I was number 24601. My newborn daughter was 24602. When my aunt passed, they gave her number to another baby." That was the system April Kyle grew up in. She avoided that hospital as...

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 had stacked up. She said plainly: I cannot afford $1,500. I will not use it. Two years later, she di...

Welcome to another episode of Relocalizing Health! This week, Dave Chase sits down with Allison Duncan, founder of Anau Health and architect of transformative maternal health models, to explore why the current U.S. maternity system is failing women by design and how we can radically improve it. From her eye-opening journey mapping world-class maternal care in Brazil to building community-driven so...

Welcome to a special series within Relocalizing Health as we count down to RosettaFest in Nashville, July 29 to 31. Each one of these is a quick look inside the book and the communities that inspired it. Real places, real numbers, real people who decided to stop waiting for someone else to fix healthcare and just built something better themselves. If you don't have your ticket to Nashville ye...

Welcome to Relocalizing Health . In today’s episode, host Dave Chase sits down with Kevin Bayuk, a partner at Lift Economy and a pioneer in redefining how communities can thrive by redesigning local systems. With over 20 years of experience questioning why wealth leaves local communities and how to rebuild systems that circulate, compound, and benefit all, Kevin Bayuk shares his journey from Silic...

Welcome to Relocalizing Health, the podcast about taking back healthcare and rebuilding communities. In today’s episode, host Dave Chase sits down with Kenneth Aldridge, the long-time clinical leader at Rosen Medical Center in Orlando, Florida. Together, they explore how Rosen Hotels has built the nation’s longest-running and most comprehensive employer-sponsored advanced primary care model, one t...

Welcome to another episode of Relocalizing Health , the show about reclaiming healthcare and strengthening our communities. I’m your host, Dave Chase, author of Relocalizing Health: Taking Back Healthcare, Rebuilding Communities . Today, we dive into the realities of being a patient in America, a system where too often, getting sick can mean financial ruin, emotional devastation, and feeling invis...

Welcome to another episode of Relocalizing Health, where host Dave Chase draws a bold parallel between America’s rural electrification revolution and the grassroots transformation happening in healthcare today. In this episode, Dave Chase unpacks the inspiring story of Iowa farmers who built miles of power lines before they even had a power source, showing how local ingenuity can spark nationwide...

Welcome to Relocalizing Health. In this episode, we shine a light on Plainfield, Indiana, a town just west of Indianapolis, where public sector employees like police officers, firefighters, and public works staff were once priced out of their own healthcare. Nate Thorne, assistant town manager, joins us to share how Plainfield broke free from years of rising premiums and shrinking paychecks, funda...

Welcome to Relocalizing Health. In this episode, we take you behind the scenes at Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, where an organization fighting hunger is revolutionizing health benefits for its employees. Join Dave Chase as he sits down with Amy Lein, Chief Human Resource Officer at Second Harvest, to uncover how this nonprofit broke away from the broken health insurance model, creat...

Welcome to Relocalizing Health with Dave Chase . In this episode, we explore what happens when a clinical leader takes health care into their own hands for both their patients and their employees. We'll meet Tim Spooner, a physical therapist who, in 1990, opened a single clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona with the conviction that the right care, at the right time, can transform lives. Thirty-five...

On this episode of Relocalizing Health, host Dave Chase sits down with family physician and author Michael Fine, a leading voice in healthcare reform and the driving force behind Primary Care for All Americans. Together, they unpack the provocative idea of medicine as a form of colonialism, exploring how corporate healthcare systems extract wealth from local communities and diminish their capacity...

Welcome to Relocalizing Health, the podcast that dives deep into how communities across America are reclaiming their healthcare from corporate control and building systems focused on people over profit. In this episode, we welcome Michael Norman, Chief Strategy Officer at Genesis Healthcare System in Zanesville, Ohio, and President of HealthyPath, a community-owned health plan product making a big...