Community: Downtown Chattanooga Rotary Club Meeting with Craig Worland of Southeast Primary Care Partners

Yesterday we had the privilege of returning to the Chattanooga Rotary Club after our week long hibernation in the East Tennessee snow. No knock on our speaker but I think many of us where just happy to have someone else watching the kids for a couple hours.

Low and behold we had a treat in store for us. Everyone knows Dave Worland who heads Governor Bill Lee’s Office of Faith Based Initiatives but our speaker today was his son Craig Worland of Southeast Primary Care Partners who spoke at length about challenges facing the US healthcare system.

Craig is a US Marine Corp veteran having served overseas and is currently COO of the largest primary care company in the State of Georgia.

His message was simply brilliant; your economic model should line up with being a good human being. That is truly a novel concept.

The belief at Southeast Primary Care Partners is that their revenue should come from the longterm health of their patients and not from referral fees or billed services.

If these primary care providers have skin in the game, it will improve life expectancy and lower the astronomical healthcare costs facing Americans which is close to double that of other first world countries. Healthcare costs are the leading cause of bankruptcies nationwide and an estimated 760-935 BILLION dollars are wasted each year.

Finding the right doctor in the right system is hard for those of us who have had loved ones in need. If we can simplify Pan’s Labyrinth of Healthcare, we can make Tennessee a better place for everyone to live with a better quality of life.

Y’all go be Tennesseans this week and see what your great state has to offer!