Our Not-for-Profit Culture Encourages Collaboration
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Calvin Allen Minnesota is ahead of other states on health care because we are a nonprofit system. This allows us to be collaborative, progressive on health care and open to change. |
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Julie Brunner We have a willingness to collaborate. There is consensus that the problem is too big to ignore. To have a community solution, the community must lead the effort—not government. An honest independent broker is needed to bring all the stakeholders together and keep everyone at the table until we agree on how to deliver affordable quality health care for all Minnesotans. |
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Frank Cerra, MD The collaborative culture of Minnesota supports one of the greatest strengths of its public research University—the opportunity to learn from and alongside a wide range of expertise. With schools of pharmacy, nursing, dentistry, medicine, public health, and veterinary medicine alongside IT, the Carlson School of Management, agriculture, our students and faculty can apply many perspectives to the single challenge of improving health for our families and communities. That’s the great benefit of collaboration—innovation resulting from many disciplines approaching the same problem. |
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Sandra Davis Health systems are serious about owning the health of our state; they need to be allowed to compete less and be more collaborative in developing care-delivery models that provide value to the consumers. They also need to move to cultures of performance while keeping their focus on healing and prevention. |
