12_How Bethesda, Inc. is transforming healthcare, one grant at a time with Jill Miller Healthcare Plus Podcast

This week Quint talks to Jill Miller, president of Bethesda Inc., a Cincinnati, Ohio-based organization devoted to transforming health and healthcare. Their focus is on vulnerable populations, the ones likely to be left behind and disproportionately impacted by events like the COVID-19 pandemic. 
In this podcast, you’ll get an insider’s view as to how they effectively utilize grants to leverage assets, promote collaboration, and drive innovation with healthcare partners in various communities. They aren’t looking for quick fixes, but high-impact projects. Jill talks about their decision to invest in multi-year, multi-million-dollar projects, because they know it takes a while to get programs off the ground.   
Bethesda doesn’t just focus on healthcare delivery; they have a real interest in the social determinants of health. According to Jill, around 20 percent of your health equation is tied to healthcare delivery. The other 80 percent is tied to pieces like genetics and behaviors. But at least 50 percent is tied to those social determinants of health, where you work, live, play, learn. They know that in order to transform healthcare, they can’t just focus on what goes on inside the hospital walls; they really have to look at issues beyond that and work in partnership with the community.
Jill shares about their latest focus: integrating behavioral health into primary care. Experts say that a behavioral health crisis is on the heels of this pandemic—and they’re doing all they can to prepare for it and alleviate it.