Topic: Jefferson Hospital

The Citizen Recommends: Walk to Stamp out Parkinson’s
How a small nonprofit with a big mission to raise funds for research and patient support turned inward to ensure it was serving the most vulnerable — Parkinsonians of color
By Lauren McCutcheon
The Doctor Will See You in the Barbershop
Jefferson Health CEO Steve Klasko is rethinking the very delivery of medicine, taking on the racial health gap, trying to get our eds and meds to focus on equity...and still deejaying
By Larry Platt
Business for Good: Ctrl M Health
36 million Americans suffer from migraines, missing a total of 113 million work days a year—but only 4 percent receive specialist care. One local tech startup is on a mission to bring comprehensive relief to everyone
By Courtney DuChene
The TikTok Doc
Austin Chiang, self-professed “medical mythbuster,” is changing the way people get their (correct, research-based) health information … and absolutely killing it on social media.
By Christine Speer Lejeune
Building A Health Assurance System
In an excerpt from their book, Unhealthcare, Jefferson CEO Stephen Klasko and a Silicon Valley disruptor offer innovative ideas to reinvent health care
By Stephen Klasko and Hemant Taneja with Kevin Maney
WATCH: Health care disparity in the age of Covid-19
The most recent online Citizen event explored the deplorable state of racial inequality in health care, and what we can do about it
By Jessica Blatt Press
The Citizen Recommends: Health care disparities in the age of Covid-19
At next week’s virtual town hall Jefferson CEO Stephen Klasko and Ala Stanford from Black Doctors Covid-19 Consortium will unpack a harsh reality of the pandemic—and everyday: Black patients are dying at a higher rate
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
The Citizen Recommends: Tangles in Time
A partnership between Jefferson and Theatre of Witness produced a play that turns art into medicine
By Jessica Blatt Press