b'Its a hard time in health care, perhaps the most difficult time weve ever known. And yet, Im incredibly optimistic about our ability to make a trailblazing difference for our communities. Ive never seen a more powerful combination of strengths than what we have going for us at Cone Health. Our outstanding care providers and team members, many of them leaders in their areas, bring more to the table than their expertise. They bring a deep level of caring. Research that sheds light on important issues. And, especially important, the desire to learn from our patients.This is what it takes for our communities to become healthier places to live. Cone Health is approaching health care challenges not just from a deep well of knowledge and experience, but from a place of empathy, data-informed thinking and humility. We should approach how we care for every community member in this way, especially in our most disadvantaged communities, where we are tackling issues of equity. How do we act on our promise to be equitable? Its an interesting question, not only because equity is at the forefront of many conversations right nowbut because at the very core of equity work is the desire to understand. Cone Health has been on an equity journey for many years. We are driven to learn what people need to be healthy. When we discover patterns of poor health and we arm our empathetic scientists with data that shows neighbors in one community are having a different outcome than neighbors in another community, we investigate and we create solutions. Many examples come to mind. In a well-known case from 2017, one of our clinicians noticed a high rate of asthma in residents living in the same apartment complex. Cone Health went beyond treatment of the disease to elimination of the mold at the source, partnering with the right community organizations to address living conditions and help residents learn to advocate for their own well-being.o2 o3 o6An inspiringTransformingThe numbers momentumoutcomes A message from theCase studies, updates Good news in givingPhilanthropy team and dataPictured above, cover and pages 12-13: Cone Health and Arts Greensboro chose a socially-engaged project bCone Health Philanthropyfor their signature art in the MedCenter for Womena quilt-based composition titled Gathering.'