b'A NEW WAY FORWARDHOW CONE HEALTH COULD TRANSFORM AMERICAN HEALTH CARE BY PRIORITIZING PREVENTION AND WELLNESSAND BECOMING PART OF RISANT HEALTHMore than a decade ago, Cone Health physicians and leaders set out to do what some might consider the impossible: shift health care in a new direction, one that unburdens patients, providers and even entire health systems and communities from the challengesof rising costs and diminishing health. If it sounds daunting, its because it is. Yet the ideas behind the shift are surprisingly simple. Streamline the patient journey. Focus on wellness rather than sickness. Prevent disease from recurring or from even taking root. These are some of the pillars of whats known as value-based care. You might hear CEO Mary Jo Cagle, MD, refer to it as proactive wellness care.Although the ideas themselves are not new, whats significant is that Cone Health is willing to take on this charge. Cone Health providers share a deep calling to move health care in this direction, away from a cumbersome national system built around getting reimbursed by insurance companies for the number of services a provider bills. Cone Healths intimacy with the communityour desire to know our community members, to listen to them and to join with others to servebrings about positive outcomes. Telehealth clinics in public schools are the perfect example (page 24). Community health workers embedded in neighborhoods are another (page 18). Cone Health donors like Mike Weaver (the Weaver Foundation) and Board of Trustees Chair Mae Douglas made significant investments in these important community-based initiatives.Cone Healths progress as one of the nations earlyPennsylvania, being the firstwill also bring leaders of the value-based care model is why Kaisercritical technology, data and capital to projects Permanente tapped our local health system to becomebenefiting the Piedmont Triad region and positively part of Risant Health, a movement to accelerate theimpacting community members right here at home. adoption of a health-focused outcomes and access care model in communities across the country andCone Health was ahead of its time in introducing bring about better health for millions of Americans.a care model focused on health outcomes and access into our community when nobody else was This opportunity to be just the second system toeven talking about it or doing it, Mae Douglas become part of Risant HealthGeisinger in Danville,says. As chair of the Cone Health Board of8Cone Health Philanthropy'