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Reimagine Healthcare

Reimagine Healthcare

By: Noah Volz
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Clear Thinking About Healthcare—Right Here at Home

What does a healthcare system designed for Southern Oregon actually look like when you step back from headlines and focus on real decisions?

Reimagine Healthcare: Southern Oregon is a short-form podcast produced by a local nonprofit focused on helping families, professionals, employers, and community leaders better understand how healthcare works—and how to navigate it more effectively.

In these weekly conversations, we sit down with local clinicians, healthcare operators, business owners, and community leaders to explore how healthcare decisions are made in the Rogue Valley, the Klamath Basin, and across Southern Oregon.

No hot takes. No political noise. Just practical insight rooted in local experience.

What We Explore

Each episode examines healthcare through a decision-making lens, including:

Local Access & Rural Healthcare How geography, workforce shortages, and infrastructure shape care options—and what actually improves access in rural communities.

Healthcare Costs & Tradeoffs What drives healthcare costs locally, where dollars flow, and how families and employers can think more clearly about value.

Systems, Incentives, and Ownership How governance, incentives, and organizational structure influence outcomes long before care is delivered.

Community-Led Solutions What’s working in Southern Oregon—and why locally informed approaches often outperform one-size-fits-all models.

Who This Podcast Is For

This podcast is designed for people who:

  • Make healthcare decisions for themselves, their families, or their teams
  • Care about long-term community health and resilience
  • Want clarity—not outrage—about a complex system

If you live, work, or lead in Southern Oregon, this conversation is for you.

Why We Do This

Reimagine Healthcare is a Southern Oregon nonprofit dedicated to education, clarity, and informed decision-making around healthcare.

We believe better systems begin with better understanding—and that local communities are best equipped to shape their own health futures when they have the right information.

Stay Connected

📬 Get the Weekly Brief Our podcast conversations often expand into deeper insights in The Reimagine Healthcare Brief, our free weekly newsletter.

🔗 Learn more or subscribe: reimagine-healthcare.org

🤝 Support the Mission If you value thoughtful, local healthcare education, consider supporting our work.

Your support helps keep these conversations grounded, independent, and accessible to our community.

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Episodes
  • Southern Oregon Healthcare: Why Physician-Owned Healthcare is Outperforming Big Pharma & Private Equity
    Jan 25 2026

    In most of America, healthcare is becoming a "numbers game" played by New York investment firms and distant corporate boards. But in the Rogue Valley, AllCare Health is proving that a different ownership model isn't just possible—it’s more effective.

    In this episode, host Noah Volz breaks down the "Fourth Model" of healthcare: the Physician-Owned Benefit Company. You’ll discover why a healthcare organization would hire a former mayor to be their "Director of Housing" and how investing in motel conversions and teacher housing is actually a calculated medical intervention.

    In this episode, you’ll learn:

    • The 4 Models of Ownership: Why for-profit, private equity, and large nonprofits operate differently than physician-owned groups.
    • The B-Corp Advantage: How AllCare scored nearly triple the median benchmark for social and environmental accountability.
    • The "Housing First" ROI: Why spending $35,000 on housing can save hundreds of thousands in emergency room "cycling."
    • Preventive Infrastructure: How modular construction and cooperative home parks are solving the "zip code destiny" problem.
    • The Case for Independent Medicine: Why AllCare supports—rather than buys—local specialists to keep rural medicine alive.

    Whether you are a patient tired of being treated like a billing code or a provider looking for a way out of corporate medicine, this episode offers a practical look at a system that treats the community as the primary stakeholder.

    Resources mentioned:

    • AllCare Health (allcarehealth.com)
    • B-Lab Impact Assessment
    • "Finding Home: A True Story of Life Outside" by Julie Akins
    • Oregon Health Authority: Coordinated Care Organizations (CCO)

    Keywords

    #PhysicianOwnership #BCorp #AllCareHealth #HousingFirst #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth #HealthcareReform #RogueValley #RuralHealth #MedicalEconomics #NoahVolz #ReimagineHealthcare

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