MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS
Los Angeles Review of Books Blog (5/29/20)
How does pay-for-action US healthcare not just waste money, but impede public health — and even harm patients? How might applying best practices from industrial production actually make our hospitals more patient-friendly? LARB contributing editor Andy Fitch interviewed Dr. Lee to answer these questions and more.
MSNBC Morning Joe (5/26/20)
Dr. Lee joins Morning Joe to discuss the impact the coronavirus has had on the country's health care workers and how solutions highlighted in ‘The Long Fix’ can help create a more resilient healthcare system.
NPR’s On Point
“The Business Of Hospitals: Why So Many Health Care Workers Are Being Laid Off”
In this interview with host Meghna Chakrabarti, Dr. Lee and Vanderbilt University’s Professor Sayeh Nikpay examine what the coronavirus pandemic reveals about the business of running American hospitals (4/20/20).
Bloomberg Opinion
1.5 Million Unemployed Health-Care Workers Signal a Failed System
Fee-for-service has been a disaster for medical providers in the pandemic, and there is a better alternative. But will anybody switch? (Justin Fox, 5/20/20)
PUTTING PATIENTS FIRST
Lee's commitment to partnering with patients to co-design and co-produce health has garnered national recognition. Whether it's putting more compassion into care, challenging the trend towards "financial toxicity" for patients, or championing more transparency for patients to be better, more informed consumers of care, Lee's focus is on advancing the health of patients.
IMPROVE QUALITY & TACKLE COSTS
Healthcare needs to deliver more value to more people, which means improving the quality of care with better health outcomes and doing so at lower costs. Lee's leadership in driving value and demonstrating that higher quality of care costs less has sparked new thinking in how to create a better healthcare system in the U.S.
LEADERSHIP
For her engaging and innovative leadership approach to transformation of healthcare, Lee has been featured in the New York Times, Fortune, STAT News, Becker's Hospital Review, National Public Radio, Bloomberg Surveillance and more.