Rethinking the Mission of Health Care

Yesterday this post showed up on Tom Peters' blog. Memorial Health has opened a small walk-in clinic in a Wal-Mart in South Bend, IN. We are all familiar with the numerous issues in obtaining affordable health care in the U.S. It is just this sort of outside-the-box thinking about the way we provide health care service that is needed in this country.

If we look at the mission of the health care system, it does not take too much matter in the noggin to figure out that those without much of a voice in this country (minorities, the poor, the oppressed, etc.) are not being taken care of properly. The principles of servant-leadership call us to look for new answers; looks like Memorial Health may have found some. It may not be the panacea needed, but it is a start.

You can read more about their new program here. A menu of the services they offer can be found here.