Author: Dorron Blumberg

Healthcare providers and healthcare systems have common fundamental goals – improving clinical and health outcomes, expanding and facilitating access to all healthcare services across the full continuum of care, and optimizing cost and efficiency. The ability to achieve these goals, however, is severely constrained by a range of critical challenges.

For more than a decade, we have all heard the predictions of a dire shortage of physicians in critical care areas. Currently, Florida ranks 42nd out of the 50 states for Graduate Medical Education (GME) spots per 100,000 people. The impact for South Florida is potentially significant, since we know physicians very often end up practicing where they were residents.

This Fall, I went on a business-led Palm Beach County leadership trip to Charlotte, North Carolina to see why the city’s stellar growth in attracting a high amount of talent has left out much of its own population. The Chetty research study revealed a tale of two cities in which certain zip codes ranked dead last in economic mobility; certain social determinants must improve to lessen inequities.