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August 29, 2024

Podcast: How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think with Rebeckah Orton 8/29/24

Rebeckah Orton on Being a Medicaid Recipient Treating Medicaid Recipients

Rebeckah Orton not only is a nurse and a doula who treats Medicaid recipients, she’s a Medicaid recipient herself. Being a doula doesn’t pay much. But it has taught her important lessons about health disparities and equity in patient care.

In this podcast, she talks about being on both sides of the table.

You can also read How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think: 10 Questions with Rebeckah Orton, where she talks to 4sight Health’s David Burda about her experience in both labs and delivery rooms.

4sight Health originally published the podcast and Q&A in April 2023.

Read more Healthcare Revolutionaries profiles on 4sighthealth.com.

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Profile: How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think: 10 Questions with Rebeckah Orton

 

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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.

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