David Zaas, President and CEO of Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Nine years ago, I was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. My 13 year old son became my bone marrow donor.
What followed was more than treatment. It was a lesson in what access to care really means.
Access to outstanding physicians. Access to clinical research. Access to a team that treated me as a person, not a diagnosis. Access to the support that makes recovery possible.
I was fortunate. Not everyone has those same opportunities.
That experience shaped how I think about access. To me, access is not a community initiative or a metric. It is a quality standard. If patients cannot get the care they need, when and where they need it, then everything we do inside our hospitals and clinics cannot fully reach them.
At Duke University Health System and Duke University School of Medicine, we are building toward that standard. Care closer to where people live. Virtual options that meet patients where they are. Pathways that connect people to the expertise they need when they need it.
The goal is simple: every patient deserves the same standard of care we would want for our own family.
That is what motivates me every day.”
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