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Dr. David Kendrick of MyHealth Access Network Helps Launch the Route 66 Accountable Health Community

Aired on Monday, September 11th.

On this installment of ST Medical Monday, our guest is Dr. David Kendrick, CEO of the locally based nonprofit, MyHealth Access Network. This network, serving more than 2 million clients throughout Greater Tulsa, works to link health care providers and their patients in a digitally-driven data network aimed at improving the health of patients, reducing inefficiency and waste, and coordinating care more effectively. As Dr. Kendrick tells us today, MyHealth Access Network has recently received a $4.5 million federal grant to establish the Route 66 Accountable Health Community. This far-ranging "community" will soon -- with funds provided by the grant -- enable 14 different "navigators" (i.e., health care advocates / managers / facilitators) in both the OKC and Tulsa areas to help Medicare and Medicaid patients more directly, more immediately, and in more fundamental or basic ways. As Dr. Kendrick recently told KWGS News in this regard: "We hope to uncover the need that exists [among these patients], and then to also provide a program of navigation services to enable [the patients and their] families to get where they need to go.... If they don't have enough food to eat, or transportation, or access to a safe living environment, for example, they're not really going to be able to focus on getting their diabetes under control."

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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