Restoring Humanity to Healthcare with Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle: Rebuilding Primary Care from the Ground Up

Welcome back to Relocalizing Health, the podcast uncovering how communities can take back healthcare from profit-driven systems and put people first. In today’s episode, host Dave Chase sits down with Dr. Rushika Fernandopulle, co-founder of Iora Health and current co-founder of Liza Health, to discuss the next frontier in primary care innovation. With heartfelt stories from the frontlines, Dr. Fernandopulle exposes the perils of fragmented, transactional medicine, where patients are overwhel...

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While Washington argues and Wall Street profits, a quiet transformation is reshaping healthcare: one community at a time.Relocalizing Health takes you inside this movement with Dave Chase, founder of Health Rosetta, as he talks with the people leading healthcare's ground-up transformation. Their approach? Keep care local, rebuild trust, and redirect healthcare wasted spending into something that actually serves people.You'll hear real-world stories from employers, clinicians, and civic leaders who are designing health plans and ecosystems that work, and strengthening their local economies in the process.Featured guests include:- Public sector leaders who've redesigned employee health benefits to free up millions for essential services.- Physicians who've left corporate systems to practice relationship-based care.- Manufacturing executives using healthcare as a competitive advantage - not a cost burden.- Civic leaders helping communities reclaim control of their healthcare destiny.If you care about your community's future and want to see what's actually working in healthcare transformation, this show offers a clear-eyed look at proven models and how to implement them.