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April 1, 2025
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Podcast: How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think With Kemena Brooks

Podcast: Kemena Brooks on Reinvesting in Disinvested Communities

Kemena Brooks is senior director of real estate development for The Community Builders. She has some strong opinions about how to address social determinants of health in Chicago and her native Charlotte, North Carolina. Listen to our podcast interview with Brooks for 4sight Health’s How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think series.

Profile: How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think: 10 Questions with Kemena Brooks

Read the interview with Kemena Brooks in our latest installment of 4sight Health’s How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think series.

Read the companion Q&A piece here.

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About the Author

David Burda

David Burda began covering healthcare in 1983 and hasn’t stopped since. Dave writes this monthly column “Burda on Healthcare,” contributes weekly blog posts, manages our weekly newsletter 4sight Friday, and hosts our weekly Roundup podcast. Dave believes that healthcare is a business like any other business, and customers — patients — are king. If you do what’s right for patients, good business results will follow.

Dave’s personnel experiences with the healthcare system both as a patient and family caregiver have shaped his point of view. It’s also been shaped by covering the industry for 40 years as a reporter and editor. He worked at Modern Healthcare for 25 years, the last 11 as editor.

Prior to Modern Healthcare, he did stints at the American Medical Record Association (now AHIMA) and the American Hospital Association. After Modern Healthcare, he wrote a monthly column for Twin Cities Business explaining healthcare trends to a business audience, and he developed and executed content marketing plans for leading healthcare corporations as the editorial director for healthcare strategies at MSP Communications.

When he’s not reading and writing about healthcare, Dave spends his time riding the trails of DuPage County, IL, on his bike, tending his vegetable garden and daydreaming about being a lobster fisherman in Maine. He lives in Wheaton, IL, with his lovely wife of 40 years and his three children, none of whom want to be journalists or lobster fishermen.

Recent Posts

Consumerism
Healthcare: It’s Just Business
We like to say here at 4sight Health that healthcare is an industry no different from any other… Read More
By April 2, 2025
Outcomes
How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think: 10 Questions with Kemena Brooks
Welcome to the latest installment of 4sight Health’s series, How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think. Our interview series profiles healthcare… Read More
By April 1, 2025
System Dynamics
The Unstoppable Force of Hospital Beds and Hospital Employment
A hospital bed capacity study published last month in JAMA Network Open caused an industry kerfuffle. It argued… Read More
By March 26, 2025