From Crisis Care to Connected Care: Why Community Health Workers Are the Missing Link in Value-Based Medicine

For most of my career, I’ve watched patients fall into a predictable cycle: they crash into the ER, stabilize for a few days, get discharged with a stack of instructions—and then, within weeks, end up right back where they started. It’s a cycle built not on medical necessity but on structural neglect, poor coordination, and a system that pays for crises…