Relocalizing Health with Dave Chase
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.
Episodes
39 episodes
Neighborhoods as Patients
Welcome to Relocalizing Health. In this episode, Dave Chase explores the powerful connection between neighborhood cohesion and health with guest Seth Kaplan, author of Fragile Neighborhoods. Over recent decades, American commu...
How Employer Cooperatives Are Fixing America's Healthcare Cost Crisis
Welcome to Relocalizing Health, where we explore the transformative power of community-driven healthcare reforms. In today’s episode, guest Lee Lewis and host Dave Chase challenge long-held beliefs about healthcare being an uncontrollable cost ...
What Advisors, Employers, and Community Leaders Will Actually Find in This Book
This episode is for the person who has been following this series and wants to know what is actually inside Relocalizing Health before they read it, and what they will walk away able to do differently.Dave Chase addresses three specific ...
The Employers Who Cracked the Code, And Why Their Stories Are in the Book
This episode walks through the Rosie Award winners and the case studies that make up the appendix of Relocalizing Health — the documented proof that the model described in this book is not theoretical.Dave Chase walks through what the Ro...
What Relocalizing Health Actually Means
When people hear the phrase relocalizing health, a lot of them assume it is a slogan, a policy proposal, or someone's political talking point. This episode explains what it actually means.Dave Chase defines it plainly: treating your comm...
Why I Spent Ten Years Writing This Book: Relocalizing Health Taking Back Healthcare. Rebuilding Communities.
The short version is that a close friend died from a preventable medical error and left behind a ten-year-old daughter. That is where this started.But the longer version, the one Dave tells in this episode, is about what that loss made h...
Case Study: A Secretary Died Avoiding a $1,500 Deductible. Wisconsin Built Something So It Would Never Happen Again.
In 2011, Patrick Blackholder was the CFO and COO at Rice Lake Area School District in northwest Wisconsin. Facing a mandated budget cut, he built a $1,500 deductible into the health plan. It seemed reasonable. It seemed responsible.A sec...
Case Study: The Poorest County in Ohio Kept $450 Million Home and Changed Everything
Ashtabula County, Ohio. One of the poorest counties in the state. A medical desert. One primary care doctor for every 3,500 residents against a national average of one per 1,300. At least 30,000 people living in medical debt. And $1.4 billion f...
How Can Community-Driven Healthcare Transform Costs and Outcomes?
Welcome to Relocalizing Health! In this episode, Dave Chase sits down with Claire Brockbank, a trailblazer in transforming healthcare costs and outcomes through community-driven strategies. From helping Colorado’s mountain towns slash exorbitan...
Case Study: The Clinic That Started in an Accounting Office and Saved $570 Million - Rosen Hotels, Orlando
Rosen Hotels & Resorts is a family hospitality company in Orlando, Florida, built by Harris Rosen, the son of immigrants who grew up on New York's Lower East Side. During the oil crisis in the 1970s, he bought a bankrupt Quality Inn on Inte...
Case Study: From the Worst Health Outcomes in America to the Best System in the World: The Nuka Story
In the late 1990s, the Alaska Native Medical Center was a tuberculosis sanatorium turned healthcare facility where elders described themselves not as people, but as numbers. One elder remembered it clearly: "I was number 24601. My newborn daugh...
Case Study: A Secretary Died Avoiding a $1,500 Deductible. Wisconsin Built Something So It Would Never Happen Again.
In 2011, Patrick Blackholder was the CFO and COO at Rice Lake Area School District in northwest Wisconsin. Facing a mandated budget cut, he built a $1,500 deductible into the health plan. It seemed reasonable. It seemed responsible.A sec...
What If Communities Were the Key to Better Birth Outcomes?
Welcome to another episode of Relocalizing Health! This week, Dave Chase sits down with Allison Duncan, founder of Anau Health and architect of transformative maternal health models, to explore why the current U.S. maternity system is failing w...
Case Study: How a Screen Manufacturing in Alabama Cracked Healthcare Before Anyone Was Watching
Welcome to a special series within Relocalizing Health as we count down to RosettaFest in Nashville, July 29 to 31. Each one of these is a quick look inside the book and the communities that inspired it. Real places, real numbers, real people w...
Redesigning Health and Wealth in Our Communities
Welcome to Relocalizing Health. In today’s episode, host Dave Chase sits down with Kevin Bayuk, a partner at Lift Economy and a pioneer in redefining how communities can thrive by redesigning local systems. With over 20 years of experi...
Trust, Compassion, and Results: The Rosen Way to Better Healthcare
Welcome to Relocalizing Health, the podcast about taking back healthcare and rebuilding communities. In today’s episode, host Dave Chase sits down with Kenneth Aldridge, the long-time clinical leader at Rosen Medical Center in Orlando, Florida....
Cancer Survivorship and the Push for Collective Patient Power
Welcome to another episode of Relocalizing Health, the show about reclaiming healthcare and strengthening our communities. I’m your host, Dave Chase, author of Relocalizing Health: Taking Back Healthcare, Rebuilding Communities
From Farm Lights to Healthcare Heights: How Cooperatives Solve America's Toughest Challenges
Welcome to another episode of Relocalizing Health, where host Dave Chase draws a bold parallel between America’s rural electrification revolution and the grassroots transformation happening in healthcare today. In this episode, Dave Chase unpac...
How Plainfield Eliminated Deductibles, Cut Payroll Costs & Invested Savings Back Into Its Own People
Welcome to Relocalizing Health. In this episode, we shine a light on Plainfield, Indiana, a town just west of Indianapolis, where public sector employees like police officers, firefighters, and public works staff were once priced out of their o...
How a Food Bank Beat Rising Health Costs to Deliver Thriving Coverage for 170 Staff
Welcome to Relocalizing Health. In this episode, we take you behind the scenes at Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida, where an organization fighting hunger is revolutionizing health benefits for its employees. Join Dave Chase as he sit...
How Spooner Physical Therapy Relocalized Health Plans and Reduced Costs for Employers and Employees
Welcome to Relocalizing Health with Dave Chase. In this episode, we explore what happens when a clinical leader takes health care into their own hands for both their patients and their employees. We'll meet Tim Spooner, a physical ther...
How Primary Care and Community Agency Can Transform Healthcare from Extraction to Empowerment
On this episode of Relocalizing Health, host Dave Chase sits down with family physician and author Michael Fine, a leading voice in healthcare reform and the driving force behind Primary Care for All Americans. Together, they unpack the provoca...
Building Affordable Local Health Plans with HealthyPath in Rural Ohio
Welcome to Relocalizing Health, the podcast that dives deep into how communities across America are reclaiming their healthcare from corporate control and building systems focused on people over profit. In this episode, we welcome Michael Norma...
How Wisconsin Employers Are Transforming Healthcare Through Cooperative Action
Welcome to Relocalizing Health, where we explore how communities are reclaiming control over healthcare and rebuilding systems that truly serve people. In this episode, host Dave Chase welcomes Patrick Blackaller, the driving force behind the E...
How Alaska Native Communities Transformed Healthcare Through Community Ownership and Engagement
On this episode of Relocalizing Health, host Dave Chase is joined by April Kyle, president and CEO of Southcentral Foundation in Alaska, for a deep dive into one of America’s most remarkable healthcare transformations. Together, they explore ho...