Interview with Stephen Ezeji-Okoye, MD (Part 3)
In Part 1 and Part 2 of our conversation, we heard from Stephen Ezeji-Okoye, MD (Chief Medical Officer of Crossover) about his experience at the VA and his first year at Crossover. We now turn our focus to learning about Stephen’s leadership role in helping Crossover respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. We discuss how the […]
Interview with Stephen Ezeji-Okoye, MD (Part 2)
In Part 1 of our interview with Stephen Ezeji-Okoye, MD (Chief Medical Officer of Crossover) he shares his experience practicing at the Veteran’s Administration, and how the introduction of data and systems for the population changed care for the individual. In this post, he relates how this is influencing his thinking while leading Crossover’s clinical
Pandemic Primary Care
Clearly, the routine services that used to fill our days (annual physical exams, wellness checks, condition management appointments, or even routine acute care visits) now seem so inconsequential as we face the progression of COVID-19. (and, at the request of health authorities, we have called our members to cancel all such “non-essential” care services)
Running Into the Fire
It has been an unprecedented several weeks in our country. We all watched with unease the scenes from China, and then with concern as it spread to Europe. nd now it is the United States’ turn to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak en masse. So much has been written about what to expect, what we […]
The Black Swan – Bad Omen or Bountiful Opportunity?
Earlier this week, I was in Philadelphia pitching to a client on a national expansion plan. The markets were in the longest bull run in history, and while observers will always tell you they end, most press was celebrating the achievement and predicting its continuation. Employment was at a high point, interest rates were not […]
Interview with Joe Ennesser, Part 2 – Intergalactic
This is a followup interview to our original where Joe described how Culture is Everything. In this second interview Joe describes his take on Crossover values, our mission and the power of our team. He also shares a few of his passions outside of healthcare – never a dull moment! How is the Crossover CSoH […]
Interview with Joe Ennesser, Part 1 – Culture is Everything
We spoke with Joe Ennesser, who joined Crossover Health last summer to lead up our Operations. Scaling what we do, managing our transformation to a digital first company and formalizing procedures is all part of his role at Crossover, but it’s his views on experience and managing growing teams that are really compelling. What’s your […]
The Spark that Lit the Fire
When I started our Crossover Health journey ten years ago, one of the forces driving me was the decline of great primary care. It may initially seem a bit odd for an emergency medicine physician to feel this way, but it was really driven by self preservation. In emergency medicine, we are acutely aware of […]
#GameOn: Emerging from the Radio Silence
Peeps – sorry for the radio silence! Funny, even that term seems so archaic now. Its been more than 8 years since I have consistently written on this blog. I finally decided that the sabbatical should end and a new chapter should begin. I have always found writing as my most effective way to distill […]
Day 65: Proof is in the Passion – Crossover Explained
Passion Tonight I attended an awesome charity event called Savannah’s Organic Ranch. Savannah was a beautiful girl stricken with cancer whose last wish was to pass along her love of organic farming. The spark that was her life and encapsulated in her last wish has fueled a community wide passion for spreading representative organic “ranches”