Working Healthcare

The truth reshaping America’s $5 trillion healthcare system. This show provides a front-row seat to the policies, powerhouses and forces. Candid conversations no one else is telling with the most fascinating healthcare leaders, every week hosted by trailblazer Meredith Hirsh. You can’t fix what you don’t understand. Watch full video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@WorkingHealthcare Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/workinghealthcarepodcast Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/workinghealthcare TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@workinghealthcarepod Meredith LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meredith

Working Healthcare is a health podcast hosted by Meredith Hirsh, with 117 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Meredith Hirsh hosts Working Healthcare, a health show with 117 episodes published.

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  Ep. 116 - Workflow Secrets and a Patient Roadmap: How Allen Cooper Wants to Fix Healthcare

  Aug 18, 20261 hour

  A hospital runs on more than white coats and exam rooms. It runs on hidden workflows, clunky communication and quiet decisions that either protect patients or push them into delays and frustration. In this episode of Working Healthcare, host Meredith Hirsh sits down with Allen Cooper, founder and CEO of ReadyLit, Inc., to explore how smarter operations can heal the system behind the scenes. Allen enters healthcare as a builder, not a clinician. He looks at outdated processes, fax-driven communication and scattered data and sees an opportunity to modernize back offices so nurses, schedulers and administrators spend less time chasing paperwork and more time supporting care. He explains why leaner, more thoughtful workflows matter in a world where hospitals stay short staffed and demand keeps rising. Then Meredith hands him a “magic wand” and asks for one big change. Allen does not talk about a new app or a flashy device. He calls for better education for patients so they understand where to go, when to go and how to avoid costly trips to crowded emergency departments. Clear guidance, honest transparency and practical navigation tools could help families find the best value care instead of guessing in the dark. If you worry about broken processes, overwhelmed staff and patients who feel lost in the maze, press play. Allen Cooper shows how fixing hidden workflows and teaching patients to navigate care can push American healthcare toward a more efficient, humane future. Contact Allen: LinkedIn: @allen-c00per Contact Meredith: Website: meredithhirsh.com Instagram: @workinghealthcare Facebook: WorkingHealthcare LinkedIn: @meredithfhirsh YouTube: @WorkingHealthcare

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  Ep. 115 - Rural Hospitals Are Vanishing — Tom Campanella Explains Why It Matters

  Aug 11, 20261h 4m

  Tom Campanella steps into Working Healthcare with a lifetime of battle-tested stories from the front lines of policy, payers and patients. He grew up in the inner city, walked into Cleveland City Council in his 20s and decided politics was not for him, yet he still craved real impact. He carried his law degree, CPA license and master’s in economics into healthcare and never looked back, trading campaign slogans for spreadsheets, contracts and community fights over access. Inside Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Ohio he watched managed care rise, hospital “golden years” collapse and payers gradually become the villain in every physician lounge. Tom shares with host Meredith Hirsh why rural hospital closures should keep city dwellers up at night, how lobbying dollars mute small-town voices and why our blindness to power structures guarantee higher bills and weaker care. He exposes the structural flaws from the 1970s that still affect today’s premiums and deductibles. He also shares the joy of shaping future physicians, hosting a call-in radio show about healthcare history and helping families recognize the pattern hidden behind their medical statements. Tom does not rant; he connects dots and names the players. If you want to understand what really happens when your local hospital shuts down, why your premiums spike every year or how we might finally tilt American healthcare back toward people instead of profit, you will not want to miss this conversation. Press play on this episode of Working Healthcare and hear Tom Campanella pull back the curtain on the system you live in every single day. Contact Thomas: LinkedIn: @thomascampanella Contact Meredith: Website: meredithhirsh.com Instagram: @workinghealthcare Facebook: WorkingHealthcare LinkedIn: @meredithfhirsh YouTube: @WorkingHealthcare

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  Ep. 114 - From Castro’s Cuba to Florida’s First Health Secretary: Dr. Ana Viamonte Ros Fights for the Invisible Patient

  Aug 4, 20261h 9m

  A little girl watches her parents practice medicine in Cuba, emigrates to Miami and grows into a fifth generation physician who refuses to accept a health care system that treats some patients as second class. Today, Dr. Ana Viamonte Ros teaches future doctors, leads care for people experiencing homelessness and still walks into every clinic with one powerful question: Who feels invisible here and why. In this new episode of Working Healthcare, guest Ana of Camillus Health and Florida International University and host Meredith Hirsh move from Medicaid to board rooms to shelter clinics and back again, revealing how “coverage” often fails to equal access and how subtle bias creeps into exam rooms, hospital corridors and payer policies. Ana explains her “platinum rule” for patient care, the moral costs of first class–coach medicine, and the quiet courage it takes to demand dignity for patients who sleep in shelters, under bridges or in crowded apartments. If you teach, train or lead in health care and you want a raw, hopeful conversation about fairness, legacy and what it really means to serve every patient with respect, press play and share this episode with a colleague who still believes medicine can do better. Contact Ana: LinkedIn: @ana-viamonte-ros Contact Meredith: Website: meredithhirsh.com Instagram: @workinghealthcare Facebook: WorkingHealthcare LinkedIn: @meredithfhirsh YouTube: @WorkingHealthcare

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  Ep. 113 - Ali Kaufman Is Tackling Youth Mental Health and Redefining Healthcare Boundaries - Re-release

  Jul 28, 20261h 3m

  When the healthcare system fails kids, classrooms quietly turn into the new emergency rooms. In this re-release of a foundational episode, of Working Healthcare, Meredith Hirsh sits down with Ali Kaufman, founder and CEO of Space of Mind, to explore how education, mental health and family systems collide and how a school can transform into a healing environment instead of another pressure cooker. Ali shares her journey from a Brandeis student who considers the rabbinate to a young woman who survives trauma, confronts undiagnosed ADHD and learns to treat her “busy brain” as a superpower rather than a flaw. She describes early work in cluttered kitchens, chaotic bedrooms and executive boardrooms, where she coaches families and CEOs through disorganization, anxiety and breakdown in communication. Meredith guides the conversation into the heart of Space of Mind, where Ali designs mental health-centered learning spaces that feel safe, flexible and creative instead of institutional. Ali explains how she trains educators to think like coaches, honors different processing styles and builds routines that support executive function without crushing individuality. Together they dissect moral injury in schools, the national shortage of child psychiatrists and the reality that many kids now operate in a constant PTSD mode. Ali argues that schools must accept every student as they are, listen more deeply and measure success with simple but radical questions like, “Does your child get out of bed happy?” Meredith and Ali connect the dots between physician burnout, student distress and the erosion of critical thinking in an era of instant answers and digital shortcuts. They offer parents and clinicians practical insight on how to nurture purpose, curiosity and psychological safety even when traditional supports disappear. If you care about the kids who slip through the cracks between healthcare and education, listen in to this episode of Working Healthcare and share it with a parent, teacher or clinician who wants school to heal rather than harm. Contact Ali: Linked In: @alikaufman Website: findspaceofmind.com Contact Meredith: Website: meredithhirsh.com Instagram: @workinghealthcare Facebook: WorkingHealthcare LinkedIn: @meredithfhirsh YouTube: @WorkingHealthcare

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  Ep. 112 - Justin Hand Unveils Insights on Healthcare's Private Equity Landscape - Re-release

  Jul 21, 20261h 1m

  Physician burnout rises, administrative burdens pile up and private equity money floods into healthcare, but most doctors still ask one urgent question: “What are my real options?” In this re-release of a foundational episode of Working Healthcare, Meredith Hirsh sits down with Justin Hand, founder and managing director of Westcove Partners, to map those options with clear, pragmatic detail and a sharp eye for legacy. Justin opens with the staggering scale of global healthcare private equity and explains why low- and middle-market practices draw such intense investor interest. He breaks down platform practices, bolt-ons and strategic acquirers, then shows how each path reshapes a physician’s autonomy, income and succession plan. Meredith pushes on the real-world pressure points, from ASC decisions and hospital affiliations to growing physician and administrator burnout, and Justin responds with candid stories from more than 90 healthcare transactions. Together they explore “income repair,” MSO structures and equity rollover, translating finance jargon into concrete examples that matter to clinic owners who juggle payroll and patient care every day. Justin contrasts physician-owned success stories with groups that seek private equity partners to resolve friction, expand recruiting or survive in markets dominated by MA plans and hospital systems. The conversation returns again to legacy, as Meredith and Justin weigh the value of independence against the reality of shrinking margins and the responsibility to keep practices open for patients and staff. If you lead a medical practice or advise one and you want a clear, narrative guide through private equity, MSOs and succession planning in today’s healthcare economy, listen in to this episode of Working Healthcare and share it with a colleague who wrestles with the same decisions. Contact Justin: LinkedIn: @justinhand Contact Meredith: Website: meredithhirsh.com Instagram: @workinghealthcare Facebook: WorkingHealthcare LinkedIn: @meredithfhirsh YouTube: @WorkingHealthcare

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