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Podcast: Creating a New Healthcare
Episode: Episode #147: Addressing the crisis of rural healthcare in America – with Dr. Jennifer Schneider, CEO & Co-founder of Homeward Health
Description: Friends,
Let’s start with a statistic. I suspect that many of you consider rural healthcare a somewhat esoteric or niche market. Let’s correct that misconception right up front. There are over 60 million Americans who live in rural settings and they tend to be older and have more medical conditions than the general population. Just for comparison’s sake, there are 30 million Americans with diabetes – that’s half the number who live in rural America. Point being, the topic we’re talking about in this episode addresses about one fifth of all Americans and according to this week’s...