August 27, 2025 • 30 mins
Jared A. Langkilde is a passionate and effective advocate for the role of philanthropy in transforming
healthcare. He joined HonorHealth Foundation as president and CEO in 2018, leading the organization with a laser focus on its mission for finding cures, saving lives and transforming healthcare.
healthcare. He joined HonorHealth Foundation as president and CEO in 2018, leading the organization with a laser focus on its mission for finding cures, saving lives and transforming healthcare.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to CEOs. You should know I am your host,
Rich Barrow, and welcome CEO Jared A. I'm going to
say this right Lane Kylete Lane Kylede, Lane Kylede, do
it for me, Lane Kildee, Lang Kilde. I wasn't even close.
You were very close MBA CFRE. What does CFRE mean?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Certified Fundraising Executive. It's an international credential.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So not only are you like the CEO, but you
are the head hauncho of fundraising for Honor Health, which
I think is amazing, the Honor Health Foundation. And you've
been in the valley for how long?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
More years than I can count a junior high high school.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Oh yeah, so you're you are a official Phoenician. So
you have survived more than one hundred more than one
one hundred and eighteen degree day.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, let me tell you what. The weather can be
quite motivating. When it hit one hundred and twenty two
degrees for the first time, I was in my late
teenage years, push a lawnmower at an apartment complex cost
day lass bombs, and I realized I could be pushing
an ink pen in an air condition office, making twice
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as much as pushing this lawnmower. It was a great
motivator to go to college.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Sure, I think, well, I used to clean grocery stores,
so you know, all the mopping the floors, the posing
out to meet department and all that. It is one
of those things that you want to get good at
so that the time goes faster. But you know, you
learn so many skills from that that you can carry
over to your your real life, don't you think? Yeah, yeah,
and then you get to back pains and the aches
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and maybe but I can mop the floor like nobody's business. Still. Really,
if you have a mayonnaise spill on the floor, I'm
the guy you want to call. I'm going to be
able to get that up.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'm going to put you on speed out Ridge because
I came up on Aisle three going on all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Of all the things in your bio. Before we get started,
I want to kind of talk to you about this
because I believe this, this describes what you are better
than almost any sentence that I could think of, says
Jared is a passionate and effective advocate for the role
of philanthropy in transforming healthcare, which I think sets up
this interview. In what is happening at on our Health
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on our Health Foundation nicely, I think it kind of
sets up whole your whole story, and I wonder if
you might want to go into why you feel like
something like Honor Health maybe even has a responsibility to
give back a little bit to the community. Let's maybe
start there and kind of how you got it going.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, well, like everything, you know where we're at, and
we do what we do in large measure because of
those who've gone before us. It's been said we stand
on the shoulders of giants, right, and on our Health
did not come about all of a sudden. There was
a lot of work and sacrifice by many people before
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I showed up to do it. And so we had
a great platform, a great foundation from which to springboard
and really dramatically increase the impact of philanthropy on delivering
health care in our valley. There's there aren't very many
jobs out there that I'm aware of that you get
to put your whole heart into and at the time
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and the era in which we as a species exist today.
So Honor Health is an organization and I love the
name that is set up to honor your health versus
honor a disease and think of a healthcare system. That's
a great way of putting it right. Yeah, trying to
really honor your health. And that's we'll talk about this later,
but you know, that's one of the reasons why we're
doing blue zones to help you live a healthy lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I know that this is true that you you definitely
walk the walk because I know how well you take
care of your employees. In fact, I learned about honor
health because of the physical therapy place that I went to,
Anatomy Optimized, which I know sets up on our health
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to treat the employees that are dealing with patients that
you are probably trying to, you know, lift heavy patients
in the wheelchairs and get them out of beds and
they tweak themselves too. And you guys take care of
your employees and have them get free physical therapy a
couple times a week. And I know my friends that
work there just love what you do. So I know
that you guys walk the walk of being healthy and
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taking care of your people, not just the people that
come to the hospital or are come through on our health,
but the people that work there too, which I think
is quite admirable.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Well, that's very kind of you to say. I can
tell you the nurses, the doctors, the staff, the janitorial crew,
everybody has a key role to play in delivering the
best of healthcare. It's not easy to perform at the
top of your license and to personalize care for every
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individual that walks in the door. But you had asked
a question about nonprofit status giving back to the community
Honor Health's role and I'm happy to tell you Rich
that Honor Health stands out amongst healthcare systems in a
variety of ways, but I would start with one. It's
focus on personalization of care for you. Not you as
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a class, or you as a group, or you as
a number, but really you as an individual. That's found
in our I Care values, with I standing for Innovation, collaboration, accountability,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Because it are you've been thinking, are there I care? Respect? Okay?
And an empathy okay? I had to finish that, yep, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
But together, it's like each individual has a role to
play to care for you, right and from a we
are a nonprofit hospital, but we're focused on quality of care,
being able to provide the latest and greatest care for you. Yeah,
instead of just a number, and it shows up in
our numbers. We have a very generous community that supports
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the work that we do. We raise over fifty sixty
million dollars a year on average to help support innovation
in programs to help patients pay their bills that can't
afford them. I don't know of another healthcare system that
really has a sign up in the emergency department that says,
if you can't afford to pay for your care, we've
got you covered. But Congress granted a number of hospitals
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nonprofit status years ago, and almost every year they call
executives of the hospitals up to Capitol Hill and they
rake them over the calls, telling them they're not investing
enough back into their communities for what they would have
been paying in taxes. But because they're no longer paying taxes,
they're making contributions back into their community.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And Congress isn't.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Happy generally with the level of investment that hospitals are
making back into their community. I'm happy to report that
Honor Health is one of a very select group that
not only meets that standard, but of one of a
very very select group that far exceeds stat standard. How
do you do that as a nonprofit and still innovate,
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because you're very innovative with with healthcare too. Yeah, the
margins and healthcare are are very small, are they really?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, it's not astronomical so profitable.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You've got kind of three players, we call them the
three piece, Right, You've got the pharmaceuticals, You've got the providers,
the healthcare systems themselves, and then you've got the insurance companies.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, insurance companies don't seem like they're operating the small
margin of profit. To the pharmaceutical companies.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
They do much better than the providers do. And we
don't get to determine the rates that we get paid.
That's set at a federal level.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And with the insurance company.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
But we do get all the regulations imposed on us,
and so our margins are generally sometimes they're negative. Sometimes
they're as high as three percent.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Oh really, yeah, that low? That low, That is actually
surprising for me to hear.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, So a couple of years ago, maybe two three
years ago, I would say, nearly seventy percent of all
healthcare systems in the country lost money, and so it
manifests in things like this. Recently, there was a regulation
that came out that said, Hey, if you're going to
provide cancer care infusion chairs for people that are having
cancer treatments, you must provide a chair with one hundred
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and fifty square feet of space around that chair for
what or we take away your license. Because when you're
going through these kind of therapies, they can compromise the
immune system and increase your infection rates, so social distancing.
They want the chairs further apart well. To do that,
you either have to remodel everything or destroy your building
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and rebuild it chairs. So how do you You don't
have the margins, you didn't build it into your budget,
and now you've got to do this. Philanthropy is oftentimes
the answer right to be able to do these things,
and so we're very grateful that we have a generous
community that's willing to step in and help do these things.
On our Health has been able to provide world class
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care in a number of service lines. The Bob Bove
Neuroscience Institute is a prime example of that. There's not
another facility like that in the world that completely flips
the model designed by the physicians who entered the neurology
space because of personal life events. They found a mother
or a grandmother or a family member that was suffering
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when they were children from a neurological disease, and they
grew up wanting to cure that because of the love
that they had for that family member. So they're in
this space now as professionals. Some of these neurophysicians and
neuroscientists are kind of approaching the end of their career
and they're like, I had a dream and I want
to deliver that dream. And so what they've done at
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the Bobbove Neuroscience Institute at Honor Health at our Osborne campus.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Is they completely fit the model.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Imagine getting diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer's right now, all
of a sudden, you have a sequence of appointments you
have to get with a host of specialists, and you
don't know which one you have to see first, which
one you have to see second, what's the order, how long,
how much time of the day you can You don't
even know how to drive yourself to the location. So
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now it's impacting your family and your friends. Right our
physician sciences said, well, this is all wrong. Let's put
the patient at the center let's put and then wrap
around the rehab, the research, the treatments, the physicians, everything,
and now we'll have the physician or the patient and
the family come and we will sequence all of their
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care for them.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Well, that's going to be a relief, you know, because
you don't know what to do. You don't know what
to do unless you've been through it before, and even
then probably.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And it's always changing, so it's complicated. So our goal
is to really put the physician and so now they
do everything there from training the next generation of physicians,
conducting cutting edge research, to treating patients to rehab. They've
even found that what we eat matters and that sound
that sounds Yeah, that sounds silly.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, aren't they calling it like diabetes type three Alzheimer's
in a lot of cases, Yeah, there was a lot
of sugar and in functional medicine that that you can
actually take back the symptoms a tad or maybe reverse
them quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So how do you do that when you're you know,
you're at in a space where you're probably buying highly
processed foods and eating them and you're just doing yourself
with disservice, and there's there can be quality of life there, right,
If you're if you do all the right things and
you're trying to you're paying for really good health care.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Let's let's add on to that.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And so we have now teaching kitchens to teach people
again that is different, how to cook and eat healthy foods.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Do we build for that? Can we build for that?
You're I gotta build for that? But is it the
right thing to do?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yes, So they'll even open up these spaces for members
of the community to be able to come in and
and remember how to cook any healthy vegetables so that
we can preserve our health and enjoy our well being
instead of waiting until something goes cat.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Well you are you are literally honoring the health of
your patient. When you do that. It's not just a
cool sounding name, right right, and the innovation that's innovation
right there. Talk to me a little bit about you
touched on it before I wrote it down to make
sure it didn't get away from us. Let's talk about
what blue zones are and what they mean through honor.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah, so blue zones has an interesting history, but it
was really kind of promoted by National Geographic But basically
they've identified a handful of locations around the world where
people live the longest and the healthiest lives.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So they're not they don't have heart disease, they don't
have cancer, they don't have but there's something about the
community in which they live in that makes it a
blue zone where there's not a you know, there's not
like a a cancer cell or you know, a bunch
of people dying of our dementia for example.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, heart disease, and you know the number one killer
of Americans is heart disease.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And so.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
They looked at these things and they studied everything about
these environments and they found some commonalities and they've been
able to identify what can be done in communities to
dramatically improve the health and well being of the population
that lives in those areas so that we could all
live long and healthy lives. And so Honor Health is
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an anchor sponsor along with the City of Scottsdale and
even Goodwill and Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Arizona and
others to put together the dollars to help the City
of Scottsdale become a certified blue zone. So that's even
working with the restaurant industry and what's on the menu
and how it's priced, and working with the city on
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the planning and zoning of sidewalks and the ease of
people to use bicycles and maybe not their cars all
the time, and what you're going to choose to eat,
and how much exercise you're going to get. All of
these and the social connections that are necessari They found
those social connections were really really important. Especially as we
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get older, they become more important. There's just so many
story on hills, walking hills. I heard that was a
big part of Italy, big part of it. We've put
in some more hills in Scottsdale. Yeah, there's we got
to camel back here one.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, I'll give you that. So give me some of
the things besides just diet. You kind of touched on community,
but having a sense of purpose, Right, that's a thing
in blue zones where if you have a garden or
a family that you're picking picking vegetables for and you're older,
that gives you a sense of purpose too. Right. Yeah,
that's one of those things. What are some of the
other things.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Well, I'll talk to that in just a minute, but
I think it's important to understand a little bit of
the context as to why this is important to Honor Health,
to the leadership of Honor Health. Todd Laporte, the CEO
of the hospital, will tell you a story about one
day suffering a heart attack in the parking lot of
a home depot in the middle of the summer here
in Arizona, and he kind of had enough strength to
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open the door and kind of hang out the door,
and that was going to be yet, but thank goodness,
coming out of the home depot happened to be a physician.
Some medical professionals that saw what was going on and
came over and helped Todd, and he ended up getting
taken to the hospital. He's there surrounded by his wife
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and his daughters. He'll tell you that a little family
feud kind of ensued. Everyone's feeling guilty about why did
this happen to dad, you know, sudden, unexpected And his
daughter turned to him and said, are you you know,
are you going to be okay? And you really don't
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know when some of these circumstances, and you know, people
feeling guilty about did I cause this for my husband
or my father? Because of how of our lifestyle And
so he's committed to living a healthier lifestyle and making
those right choices and wants to encourage and support our
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community as a whole to do so. It's we get
all the things we shouldn't do in our faces all
day long, whether that's sitting on a device on not
getting up and walking on a regular basis, or eating
processed foods instead of eating enough vegetables and fruits and
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nuts and other things. And so he feels an obligation
and has been able to encourage the entire organization to
embrace our name, our namesake of honoring your health and
really encouraging a lot of these diseases, even heart disease,
can be reverse.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
By lifestyle changes.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of focus,
but it's a team sport. We all can't do it
by ourselves. It takes surrounding ourselves with good people with
good habits and helping others acquire those good habits as well.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
And we can. We're going to make a difference.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
This was Fort Worth, Texas, used to have one of
the highest heart disease rates in the country. They really
they were on the list of all at stake of
one of the least healthy cities in America.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You throw that in there with QESO, what are you
supposed to do? Yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
But they've become Blue Zone certified and now they're in
like the top fifty healthiest cities in America. So it
can be done. And it isn't you know. It's all encompassing,
and it takes everyone working together, including our philanthropic community,
and and it will change and we'll all be better
for it if we if we really zoom out in
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a big, big way and look at the entire existence
of the human species. Today is the most exciting day
in our species existence to be involved in healthcare, because
of innovation, because of technology, because of our understanding of
how the body works. This is the time. And I'm
convinced Rich that one hundred years, three hundred years from now,
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whoever is here on planet Earth is going to look
back to our day and say that is the time
that the trajectory of the human species began to change,
that we all began to live not only longer.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Lives, but healthier lives.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
There are common conversations taking place in the medical field
and scientific and technology fields about immortality, right because oftentimes
the technologists just view aging as a technology problem to
be solved. We understand things now that we didn't understand before.
The technologies kind of exist. There are people that are
reversing their biological age. They're getting younger with every passing age.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Crazy to watch it.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah, And and to have an organization that I think
is sufficiently nimble and agile in this unique era is
imperative for where I want to seek out my care. Right,
it's the place that I want to go because this
place could have the latest and greatest in technology that
would save my life. There's the trenbectomy procedure in the
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neurosciences now that was pioneered in Georgia, of all places,
the stroke capital of the world, with a lot of
grant dollars and federal funding and other things. It's a
it's a technology that, as it rolled out, was able
to in essence, go up through your growing all the
way up to your brain with a micro vacuum cleaner.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I'm simplifying. I hope it's really micro, because that doesn't
sound isn't unpleasant.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
But you know what a stroke looks like, the drewer phase,
the paralysis, the loss speech, right, Well, imagine this that
they can go in there with the technology making sure
that the blood vessel is still intact post the clot,
because if we remove the clot and blood starts to flow,
the patient would bleed out and die.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
So, within one hour after a stroke, the trobectomy procedure
became available and they could go up there and literally
vacuum away that clot and remove it instantly restoring blood flow.
But to watch in front of your face the droopiness
go away.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That will happen right there. Live.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
That procedure did so well, and the technology got so good,
and we now have it on our health that within
twenty four hours now after a stroke, you can reverse
virtually all the symptoms of a stroke. Wow, it's nothing
short of miraculous. Well, it really is, and that is
available today. Not every healthcare system has that technology, right,
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but that's available. And that's what I'm talking about, the
unique era when we live in because that used to
be almost a prison sentence.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
You had a human being stuck inside a body, right,
you know. I remember my mom saying that she which
my mother. She's passed away now many years, but her
father had a stroke in front of her when she
was about fifteen and into passing away, and she sort
of lived in fear of what a stroke could do
to a person. And I know, just to like a
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lot of us now, we're like, oh my gosh, we
don't want to have Alzheimer's, to be a prisoner of
your own brain. And it sounds like their strides to
maybe you could now start making choices in your life
that could prevent that and stave that off for your
whole life. So, as you say, living in the blue zone,
which I think is great. Now we only have a
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few minutes left, but I do want to talk about
some of the philanthropic things you do, and for somebody
who's listening, Jared, how they can get involved in the
philanthropic things that you do. How do they make themselves
known to you and honor health where they can they
can jump in the community and start being a builder
of the blue zones. Yeah, Well, to.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Wrap up what we just talked about, because I think
there's a lot of some people will be shocked by
what I just shared, right, But the reality is there's
incredible physician medical talent available today that has the ability
to and the technology to do things that many people
hadn't even imagined were possible.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I didn't even though that was possible.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Now, Honor Health is also a partnering with Arizona State
University and their medical school and advanced medical engineering technologies. Right,
so these up and coming medical talent individuals will come
not only with the medical skills and the people skills,
but with the engineering skills. So think of the possibility
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of you're needing a new heart instead of transplanting, maybe
we three D print one using your own DNA. Maybe
you need a new liver, a new kidney, a new larnix,
those things. There are healthcare systems today that are three
D printing these things on demand just for you, for
your DNA creating that's coming, that's coming, And so having
a medical talent pool available in our own community is
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very significant and philanthropy can help expedite all of this
stuff to ensure that it's available for us right here
in Arizona. We have all kinds of funding priorities all
over the map. If someone's interested in funding education, medical
education scholarships, we do that. We're one of the few
healthcare systems and the only one in Arizona that has
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a forensic nursing program. So if you're a victim of rape,
domestic violence, human trafficking, sex trafficking, instead of going to
the emergency department and waiting in line to be seen
after one of the most debilitating and degrading experiences anyone
could have in life. We need manage unbranded locations throughout
the value in partnership with police and fire, and we
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staff them twenty four to seven. I didn't know that
so that victims of those crimes can get immediate personalized
care vice a medical professional that's trained in collecting forensic
evidence so that it can withstand chris scrutiny in a
ward of law and put the perpetrators behind bars. That's
a service we offer to the community. Another way that
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we give back right our legacy is oftentimes with the
John C. Lincoln system, which got it start with the
food bank and then ultimately early childhood education programs.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Our early childhood education.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Program for working poor, homeless and others. Services can be
offered on a sliding scale. Is because ultimately John and
hell and Lincoln when they came here, found a lot
of hungry people. People were coming here to clear out
their lungs for tuberculosis and whatnot, and they decided to
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start up a soup kitchen, a food kitchen, a food bank,
and they realized that when people came for food, they
also had healthcare challenges.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And so.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
John was an incredible entrepreneur and said, well, let's start
up a hospital. So they did, and today, you know,
we still offer that food bank. We still offer those
childhood services because oftentimes the people coming for food in
order to help them go from where they're at to
a place that they need to go for a greater
self reliance, they run into some problems, things like I
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have an adult grandparent or parent to take care of
that has demential Alzheimer's and I can't afford adult daycare, so.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I can't get a job.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
We will take on that parent or grandparent for you
and watch them for you so that you can get
a job. The next major obstacle is I've got an
infant or a child, and I can't afford childcare my
whole You know, if I get a job, it all
just goes to childcare. It doesn't make any sense. Will
take on the child care for you. Our child care
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facility as the highest learning outcomes of any early childhood
education program in the state. Of Arizona. So we just
don't do it on the chievement. You try to do
it well and write. So those are all programs that
people can medical research. You want to help find a
cure for pancreatic cancer, we have some of the top
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physician talent in the world for pancreatic cancer right here.
We offer custom treatments for almost any type of cancer.
If you want to push the envelope, so to speak,
on your treatments and maybe help the generation that follows.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
There's some newer cutting edge type of LA.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I mean, we've got immunal therapies being developed at our
research institute with Mark Slater, where they can get FDA
approval in less than ten days for a first in
human clinical trial just for you, for just your type
of cancer based on your DNA. Right, So what that
does Oftentimes.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You wasn't You're light years ahead of everybody else. You
wouldn't see this in the past.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
You would hear rumors about somebody got cured from an
incurable cancer. Okay, doesn't happen in every case, but I
am telling you on a more consistent regular basis, we
are seeing people become cured from incurable cancers. By becoming
hyper personalized in their treatments.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I guess that's what it's going to take too, right, Yeah,
you can't just say well you have this, go over this,
then that's the treatment. A one size fits all. It's
not the answer. It's not the answer. So we're starting
up a genetics and precision medicine. We've got all kinds
of technologies that we're developing, and we have an innovation
lab in partnership with CDW where we're taking all these
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emerging technologies from around the world and testing them in
our innovation lab to verify that they do what they
say they're going to do, so that we can improve
your care and help you live the healthiest version of yourself.
So things like in the near future, you could very
well have a light bulb in your hospital room that
would take your blood pressure for you, so that you
don't have a nurse coming in at two am to
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take your blood pressure, but it would only take that
blood pressure for you. It would put it in an
electronic medical record system at the same time, so that
you can enjoy your sleep more completely, because that's when
the healing occurs typically is in the sleep. Right, is
there a website that you send people to who want
to Maybe you want to get checked out, maybe have
a family memory that needs something you don't know where
to start, or maybe you want to be involved in
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the philanthropic arm of what on Earth does? Is there
somewhere you send people.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
So anyone can google Honor Health or go put in
your browser Onorhealth dot com. Right if you want to
engage with us philanthropically, it's Honor Health Foundation dot org.
You can also call us at four eight zero five
eight seven five thousand. Check out our website. We accept
gifts of real estate, we accept cryptocurrency, we accept stock,
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cash checks, credit cards. You know, we really want to
allow donors this community to give in a way that
works best for them, again, trying to make that experience
personalized and make them help them feel the impact of
their gift because every dollar that gives gifted, every penny
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of every dollar goes to an intended cost.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
We don't charge any fees for all the.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Philanthropy that comes through us, and we're in a credit
to charity with the Better Business Bureau. Candidate has given
us their highest seal of approval, their Platinum status. We've
we've been decorated and recognized a number of times by
the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy as one of the top
performing healthcare foundations in the country.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And that is no.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Small feat due to the quality of medical talented on
our health and the generosity of this community. Well, Jared,
I think it comes from the top down, and you
are a great ambassador in your heart shows through what
you do. I can tell that you are not just
a guy with a job. You're a guy with a
mission and that is that is clear to see. So
thank you so much for spending some time with us.
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I know you're a very busy guy. It was hard
to get you tracked down to get this happening, but
I'm happy that we're putting it on the radio across
all of our radio stations. And I think you're a
fabulous human being. And let's see a good, you know,
ageless version of you for a long time. All right,
you got it now, if we can just how to
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regrow my hair, I'd be happy.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Right, next round of research. We'll take care of that
stroke first here next, Thank you, Rich, Thanks a bunch
Welcome to CEOs. You should know I am your host,
Rich Barrow, and welcome CEO Jared A. I'm going to
say this right Lane Kylete Lane Kylede, Lane Kylede, do
it for me, Lane Kildee, Lang Kilde. I wasn't even close.
You were very close MBA CFRE. What does CFRE mean?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Certified Fundraising Executive. It's an international credential.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
So not only are you like the CEO, but you
are the head hauncho of fundraising for Honor Health, which
I think is amazing, the Honor Health Foundation. And you've
been in the valley for how long?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
More years than I can count a junior high high school.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
Oh yeah, so you're you are a official Phoenician. So
you have survived more than one hundred more than one
one hundred and eighteen degree day.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Well, let me tell you what. The weather can be
quite motivating. When it hit one hundred and twenty two
degrees for the first time, I was in my late
teenage years, push a lawnmower at an apartment complex cost
day lass bombs, and I realized I could be pushing
an ink pen in an air condition office, making twice
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as much as pushing this lawnmower. It was a great
motivator to go to college.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Sure, I think, well, I used to clean grocery stores,
so you know, all the mopping the floors, the posing
out to meet department and all that. It is one
of those things that you want to get good at
so that the time goes faster. But you know, you
learn so many skills from that that you can carry
over to your your real life, don't you think? Yeah, yeah,
and then you get to back pains and the aches
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and maybe but I can mop the floor like nobody's business. Still. Really,
if you have a mayonnaise spill on the floor, I'm
the guy you want to call. I'm going to be
able to get that up.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
I'm going to put you on speed out Ridge because
I came up on Aisle three going on all the time.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Of all the things in your bio. Before we get started,
I want to kind of talk to you about this
because I believe this, this describes what you are better
than almost any sentence that I could think of, says
Jared is a passionate and effective advocate for the role
of philanthropy in transforming healthcare, which I think sets up
this interview. In what is happening at on our Health
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on our Health Foundation nicely, I think it kind of
sets up whole your whole story, and I wonder if
you might want to go into why you feel like
something like Honor Health maybe even has a responsibility to
give back a little bit to the community. Let's maybe
start there and kind of how you got it going.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, well, like everything, you know where we're at, and
we do what we do in large measure because of
those who've gone before us. It's been said we stand
on the shoulders of giants, right, and on our Health
did not come about all of a sudden. There was
a lot of work and sacrifice by many people before
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I showed up to do it. And so we had
a great platform, a great foundation from which to springboard
and really dramatically increase the impact of philanthropy on delivering
health care in our valley. There's there aren't very many
jobs out there that I'm aware of that you get
to put your whole heart into and at the time
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and the era in which we as a species exist today.
So Honor Health is an organization and I love the
name that is set up to honor your health versus
honor a disease and think of a healthcare system. That's
a great way of putting it right. Yeah, trying to
really honor your health. And that's we'll talk about this later,
but you know, that's one of the reasons why we're
doing blue zones to help you live a healthy lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
I know that this is true that you you definitely
walk the walk because I know how well you take
care of your employees. In fact, I learned about honor
health because of the physical therapy place that I went to,
Anatomy Optimized, which I know sets up on our health
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to treat the employees that are dealing with patients that
you are probably trying to, you know, lift heavy patients
in the wheelchairs and get them out of beds and
they tweak themselves too. And you guys take care of
your employees and have them get free physical therapy a
couple times a week. And I know my friends that
work there just love what you do. So I know
that you guys walk the walk of being healthy and
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taking care of your people, not just the people that
come to the hospital or are come through on our health,
but the people that work there too, which I think
is quite admirable.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Well, that's very kind of you to say. I can
tell you the nurses, the doctors, the staff, the janitorial crew,
everybody has a key role to play in delivering the
best of healthcare. It's not easy to perform at the
top of your license and to personalize care for every
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individual that walks in the door. But you had asked
a question about nonprofit status giving back to the community
Honor Health's role and I'm happy to tell you Rich
that Honor Health stands out amongst healthcare systems in a
variety of ways, but I would start with one. It's
focus on personalization of care for you. Not you as
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a class, or you as a group, or you as
a number, but really you as an individual. That's found
in our I Care values, with I standing for Innovation, collaboration, accountability,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Because it are you've been thinking, are there I care? Respect? Okay?
And an empathy okay? I had to finish that, yep, okay.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
But together, it's like each individual has a role to
play to care for you, right and from a we
are a nonprofit hospital, but we're focused on quality of care,
being able to provide the latest and greatest care for you. Yeah,
instead of just a number, and it shows up in
our numbers. We have a very generous community that supports
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the work that we do. We raise over fifty sixty
million dollars a year on average to help support innovation
in programs to help patients pay their bills that can't
afford them. I don't know of another healthcare system that
really has a sign up in the emergency department that says,
if you can't afford to pay for your care, we've
got you covered. But Congress granted a number of hospitals
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nonprofit status years ago, and almost every year they call
executives of the hospitals up to Capitol Hill and they
rake them over the calls, telling them they're not investing
enough back into their communities for what they would have
been paying in taxes. But because they're no longer paying taxes,
they're making contributions back into their community.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
And Congress isn't.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Happy generally with the level of investment that hospitals are
making back into their community. I'm happy to report that
Honor Health is one of a very select group that
not only meets that standard, but of one of a
very very select group that far exceeds stat standard. How
do you do that as a nonprofit and still innovate,
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because you're very innovative with with healthcare too. Yeah, the
margins and healthcare are are very small, are they really?
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, it's not astronomical so profitable.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
You've got kind of three players, we call them the
three piece, Right, You've got the pharmaceuticals, You've got the providers,
the healthcare systems themselves, and then you've got the insurance companies.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Well, insurance companies don't seem like they're operating the small
margin of profit. To the pharmaceutical companies.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
They do much better than the providers do. And we
don't get to determine the rates that we get paid.
That's set at a federal level.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
And with the insurance company.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
But we do get all the regulations imposed on us,
and so our margins are generally sometimes they're negative. Sometimes
they're as high as three percent.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Oh really, yeah, that low? That low, That is actually
surprising for me to hear.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, So a couple of years ago, maybe two three
years ago, I would say, nearly seventy percent of all
healthcare systems in the country lost money, and so it
manifests in things like this. Recently, there was a regulation
that came out that said, Hey, if you're going to
provide cancer care infusion chairs for people that are having
cancer treatments, you must provide a chair with one hundred
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and fifty square feet of space around that chair for
what or we take away your license. Because when you're
going through these kind of therapies, they can compromise the
immune system and increase your infection rates, so social distancing.
They want the chairs further apart well. To do that,
you either have to remodel everything or destroy your building
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and rebuild it chairs. So how do you You don't
have the margins, you didn't build it into your budget,
and now you've got to do this. Philanthropy is oftentimes
the answer right to be able to do these things,
and so we're very grateful that we have a generous
community that's willing to step in and help do these things.
On our Health has been able to provide world class
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care in a number of service lines. The Bob Bove
Neuroscience Institute is a prime example of that. There's not
another facility like that in the world that completely flips
the model designed by the physicians who entered the neurology
space because of personal life events. They found a mother
or a grandmother or a family member that was suffering
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when they were children from a neurological disease, and they
grew up wanting to cure that because of the love
that they had for that family member. So they're in
this space now as professionals. Some of these neurophysicians and
neuroscientists are kind of approaching the end of their career
and they're like, I had a dream and I want
to deliver that dream. And so what they've done at
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the Bobbove Neuroscience Institute at Honor Health at our Osborne campus.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Is they completely fit the model.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Imagine getting diagnosed with dementia or Alzheimer's right now, all
of a sudden, you have a sequence of appointments you
have to get with a host of specialists, and you
don't know which one you have to see first, which
one you have to see second, what's the order, how long,
how much time of the day you can You don't
even know how to drive yourself to the location. So
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now it's impacting your family and your friends. Right our
physician sciences said, well, this is all wrong. Let's put
the patient at the center let's put and then wrap
around the rehab, the research, the treatments, the physicians, everything,
and now we'll have the physician or the patient and
the family come and we will sequence all of their
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care for them.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Well, that's going to be a relief, you know, because
you don't know what to do. You don't know what
to do unless you've been through it before, and even
then probably.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
And it's always changing, so it's complicated. So our goal
is to really put the physician and so now they
do everything there from training the next generation of physicians,
conducting cutting edge research, to treating patients to rehab. They've
even found that what we eat matters and that sound
that sounds Yeah, that sounds silly.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Yeah, aren't they calling it like diabetes type three Alzheimer's
in a lot of cases, Yeah, there was a lot
of sugar and in functional medicine that that you can
actually take back the symptoms a tad or maybe reverse
them quite a bit.
Speaker 2 (11:17):
So how do you do that when you're you know,
you're at in a space where you're probably buying highly
processed foods and eating them and you're just doing yourself
with disservice, and there's there can be quality of life there, right,
If you're if you do all the right things and
you're trying to you're paying for really good health care.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Let's let's add on to that.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
And so we have now teaching kitchens to teach people
again that is different, how to cook and eat healthy foods.
Speaker 1 (11:48):
Do we build for that? Can we build for that?
You're I gotta build for that? But is it the
right thing to do?
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Yes, So they'll even open up these spaces for members
of the community to be able to come in and
and remember how to cook any healthy vegetables so that
we can preserve our health and enjoy our well being
instead of waiting until something goes cat.
Speaker 1 (12:08):
Well you are you are literally honoring the health of
your patient. When you do that. It's not just a
cool sounding name, right right, and the innovation that's innovation
right there. Talk to me a little bit about you
touched on it before I wrote it down to make
sure it didn't get away from us. Let's talk about
what blue zones are and what they mean through honor.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
Yeah, so blue zones has an interesting history, but it
was really kind of promoted by National Geographic But basically
they've identified a handful of locations around the world where
people live the longest and the healthiest lives.
Speaker 1 (12:48):
So they're not they don't have heart disease, they don't
have cancer, they don't have but there's something about the
community in which they live in that makes it a
blue zone where there's not a you know, there's not
like a a cancer cell or you know, a bunch
of people dying of our dementia for example.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
Yeah, heart disease, and you know the number one killer
of Americans is heart disease.
Speaker 1 (13:12):
And so.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
They looked at these things and they studied everything about
these environments and they found some commonalities and they've been
able to identify what can be done in communities to
dramatically improve the health and well being of the population
that lives in those areas so that we could all
live long and healthy lives. And so Honor Health is
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an anchor sponsor along with the City of Scottsdale and
even Goodwill and Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Arizona and
others to put together the dollars to help the City
of Scottsdale become a certified blue zone. So that's even
working with the restaurant industry and what's on the menu
and how it's priced, and working with the city on
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the planning and zoning of sidewalks and the ease of
people to use bicycles and maybe not their cars all
the time, and what you're going to choose to eat,
and how much exercise you're going to get. All of
these and the social connections that are necessari They found
those social connections were really really important. Especially as we
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get older, they become more important. There's just so many
story on hills, walking hills. I heard that was a
big part of Italy, big part of it. We've put
in some more hills in Scottsdale. Yeah, there's we got
to camel back here one.
Speaker 1 (14:31):
Yeah, I'll give you that. So give me some of
the things besides just diet. You kind of touched on community,
but having a sense of purpose, Right, that's a thing
in blue zones where if you have a garden or
a family that you're picking picking vegetables for and you're older,
that gives you a sense of purpose too. Right. Yeah,
that's one of those things. What are some of the
other things.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
Well, I'll talk to that in just a minute, but
I think it's important to understand a little bit of
the context as to why this is important to Honor Health,
to the leadership of Honor Health. Todd Laporte, the CEO
of the hospital, will tell you a story about one
day suffering a heart attack in the parking lot of
a home depot in the middle of the summer here
in Arizona, and he kind of had enough strength to
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open the door and kind of hang out the door,
and that was going to be yet, but thank goodness,
coming out of the home depot happened to be a physician.
Some medical professionals that saw what was going on and
came over and helped Todd, and he ended up getting
taken to the hospital. He's there surrounded by his wife
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and his daughters. He'll tell you that a little family
feud kind of ensued. Everyone's feeling guilty about why did
this happen to dad, you know, sudden, unexpected And his
daughter turned to him and said, are you you know,
are you going to be okay? And you really don't
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know when some of these circumstances, and you know, people
feeling guilty about did I cause this for my husband
or my father? Because of how of our lifestyle And
so he's committed to living a healthier lifestyle and making
those right choices and wants to encourage and support our
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community as a whole to do so. It's we get
all the things we shouldn't do in our faces all
day long, whether that's sitting on a device on not
getting up and walking on a regular basis, or eating
processed foods instead of eating enough vegetables and fruits and
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nuts and other things. And so he feels an obligation
and has been able to encourage the entire organization to
embrace our name, our namesake of honoring your health and
really encouraging a lot of these diseases, even heart disease,
can be reverse.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
By lifestyle changes.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of focus,
but it's a team sport. We all can't do it
by ourselves. It takes surrounding ourselves with good people with
good habits and helping others acquire those good habits as well.
Speaker 1 (17:16):
And we can. We're going to make a difference.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
This was Fort Worth, Texas, used to have one of
the highest heart disease rates in the country. They really
they were on the list of all at stake of
one of the least healthy cities in America.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
You throw that in there with QESO, what are you
supposed to do? Yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 2 (17:35):
But they've become Blue Zone certified and now they're in
like the top fifty healthiest cities in America. So it
can be done. And it isn't you know. It's all encompassing,
and it takes everyone working together, including our philanthropic community,
and and it will change and we'll all be better
for it if we if we really zoom out in
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a big, big way and look at the entire existence
of the human species. Today is the most exciting day
in our species existence to be involved in healthcare, because
of innovation, because of technology, because of our understanding of
how the body works. This is the time. And I'm
convinced Rich that one hundred years, three hundred years from now,
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whoever is here on planet Earth is going to look
back to our day and say that is the time
that the trajectory of the human species began to change,
that we all began to live not only longer.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
Lives, but healthier lives.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
There are common conversations taking place in the medical field
and scientific and technology fields about immortality, right because oftentimes
the technologists just view aging as a technology problem to
be solved. We understand things now that we didn't understand before.
The technologies kind of exist. There are people that are
reversing their biological age. They're getting younger with every passing age.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Crazy to watch it.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Yeah, And and to have an organization that I think
is sufficiently nimble and agile in this unique era is
imperative for where I want to seek out my care. Right,
it's the place that I want to go because this
place could have the latest and greatest in technology that
would save my life. There's the trenbectomy procedure in the
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neurosciences now that was pioneered in Georgia, of all places,
the stroke capital of the world, with a lot of
grant dollars and federal funding and other things. It's a
it's a technology that, as it rolled out, was able
to in essence, go up through your growing all the
way up to your brain with a micro vacuum cleaner.
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I'm simplifying. I hope it's really micro, because that doesn't
sound isn't unpleasant.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
But you know what a stroke looks like, the drewer phase,
the paralysis, the loss speech, right, Well, imagine this that
they can go in there with the technology making sure
that the blood vessel is still intact post the clot,
because if we remove the clot and blood starts to flow,
the patient would bleed out and die.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Right.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
So, within one hour after a stroke, the trobectomy procedure
became available and they could go up there and literally
vacuum away that clot and remove it instantly restoring blood flow.
But to watch in front of your face the droopiness
go away.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
That will happen right there. Live.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
That procedure did so well, and the technology got so good,
and we now have it on our health that within
twenty four hours now after a stroke, you can reverse
virtually all the symptoms of a stroke. Wow, it's nothing
short of miraculous. Well, it really is, and that is
available today. Not every healthcare system has that technology, right,
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but that's available. And that's what I'm talking about, the
unique era when we live in because that used to
be almost a prison sentence.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
You had a human being stuck inside a body, right,
you know. I remember my mom saying that she which
my mother. She's passed away now many years, but her
father had a stroke in front of her when she
was about fifteen and into passing away, and she sort
of lived in fear of what a stroke could do
to a person. And I know, just to like a
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lot of us now, we're like, oh my gosh, we
don't want to have Alzheimer's, to be a prisoner of
your own brain. And it sounds like their strides to
maybe you could now start making choices in your life
that could prevent that and stave that off for your
whole life. So, as you say, living in the blue zone,
which I think is great. Now we only have a
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few minutes left, but I do want to talk about
some of the philanthropic things you do, and for somebody
who's listening, Jared, how they can get involved in the
philanthropic things that you do. How do they make themselves
known to you and honor health where they can they
can jump in the community and start being a builder
of the blue zones. Yeah, Well, to.
Speaker 2 (21:57):
Wrap up what we just talked about, because I think
there's a lot of some people will be shocked by
what I just shared, right, But the reality is there's
incredible physician medical talent available today that has the ability
to and the technology to do things that many people
hadn't even imagined were possible.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
I didn't even though that was possible.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Now, Honor Health is also a partnering with Arizona State
University and their medical school and advanced medical engineering technologies. Right,
so these up and coming medical talent individuals will come
not only with the medical skills and the people skills,
but with the engineering skills. So think of the possibility
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of you're needing a new heart instead of transplanting, maybe
we three D print one using your own DNA. Maybe
you need a new liver, a new kidney, a new larnix,
those things. There are healthcare systems today that are three
D printing these things on demand just for you, for
your DNA creating that's coming, that's coming, And so having
a medical talent pool available in our own community is
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very significant and philanthropy can help expedite all of this
stuff to ensure that it's available for us right here
in Arizona. We have all kinds of funding priorities all
over the map. If someone's interested in funding education, medical
education scholarships, we do that. We're one of the few
healthcare systems and the only one in Arizona that has
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a forensic nursing program. So if you're a victim of rape,
domestic violence, human trafficking, sex trafficking, instead of going to
the emergency department and waiting in line to be seen
after one of the most debilitating and degrading experiences anyone
could have in life. We need manage unbranded locations throughout
the value in partnership with police and fire, and we
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staff them twenty four to seven. I didn't know that
so that victims of those crimes can get immediate personalized
care vice a medical professional that's trained in collecting forensic
evidence so that it can withstand chris scrutiny in a
ward of law and put the perpetrators behind bars. That's
a service we offer to the community. Another way that
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we give back right our legacy is oftentimes with the
John C. Lincoln system, which got it start with the
food bank and then ultimately early childhood education programs.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Our early childhood education.
Speaker 2 (24:18):
Program for working poor, homeless and others. Services can be
offered on a sliding scale. Is because ultimately John and
hell and Lincoln when they came here, found a lot
of hungry people. People were coming here to clear out
their lungs for tuberculosis and whatnot, and they decided to
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start up a soup kitchen, a food kitchen, a food bank,
and they realized that when people came for food, they
also had healthcare challenges.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
And so.
Speaker 2 (24:49):
John was an incredible entrepreneur and said, well, let's start
up a hospital. So they did, and today, you know,
we still offer that food bank. We still offer those
childhood services because oftentimes the people coming for food in
order to help them go from where they're at to
a place that they need to go for a greater
self reliance, they run into some problems, things like I
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have an adult grandparent or parent to take care of
that has demential Alzheimer's and I can't afford adult daycare, so.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
I can't get a job.
Speaker 2 (25:19):
We will take on that parent or grandparent for you
and watch them for you so that you can get
a job. The next major obstacle is I've got an
infant or a child, and I can't afford childcare my
whole You know, if I get a job, it all
just goes to childcare. It doesn't make any sense. Will
take on the child care for you. Our child care
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facility as the highest learning outcomes of any early childhood
education program in the state. Of Arizona. So we just
don't do it on the chievement. You try to do
it well and write. So those are all programs that
people can medical research. You want to help find a
cure for pancreatic cancer, we have some of the top
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physician talent in the world for pancreatic cancer right here.
We offer custom treatments for almost any type of cancer.
If you want to push the envelope, so to speak,
on your treatments and maybe help the generation that follows.
Speaker 1 (26:17):
There's some newer cutting edge type of LA.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I mean, we've got immunal therapies being developed at our
research institute with Mark Slater, where they can get FDA
approval in less than ten days for a first in
human clinical trial just for you, for just your type
of cancer based on your DNA. Right, So what that
does Oftentimes.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
You wasn't You're light years ahead of everybody else. You
wouldn't see this in the past.
Speaker 2 (26:42):
You would hear rumors about somebody got cured from an
incurable cancer. Okay, doesn't happen in every case, but I
am telling you on a more consistent regular basis, we
are seeing people become cured from incurable cancers. By becoming
hyper personalized in their treatments.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
I guess that's what it's going to take too, right, Yeah,
you can't just say well you have this, go over this,
then that's the treatment. A one size fits all. It's
not the answer. It's not the answer. So we're starting
up a genetics and precision medicine. We've got all kinds
of technologies that we're developing, and we have an innovation
lab in partnership with CDW where we're taking all these
(27:21):
emerging technologies from around the world and testing them in
our innovation lab to verify that they do what they
say they're going to do, so that we can improve
your care and help you live the healthiest version of yourself.
So things like in the near future, you could very
well have a light bulb in your hospital room that
would take your blood pressure for you, so that you
don't have a nurse coming in at two am to
(27:43):
take your blood pressure, but it would only take that
blood pressure for you. It would put it in an
electronic medical record system at the same time, so that
you can enjoy your sleep more completely, because that's when
the healing occurs typically is in the sleep. Right, is
there a website that you send people to who want
to Maybe you want to get checked out, maybe have
a family memory that needs something you don't know where
to start, or maybe you want to be involved in
(28:04):
the philanthropic arm of what on Earth does? Is there
somewhere you send people.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
So anyone can google Honor Health or go put in
your browser Onorhealth dot com. Right if you want to
engage with us philanthropically, it's Honor Health Foundation dot org.
You can also call us at four eight zero five
eight seven five thousand. Check out our website. We accept
gifts of real estate, we accept cryptocurrency, we accept stock,
(28:32):
cash checks, credit cards. You know, we really want to
allow donors this community to give in a way that
works best for them, again, trying to make that experience
personalized and make them help them feel the impact of
their gift because every dollar that gives gifted, every penny
(28:53):
of every dollar goes to an intended cost.
Speaker 1 (28:55):
We don't charge any fees for all the.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
Philanthropy that comes through us, and we're in a credit
to charity with the Better Business Bureau. Candidate has given
us their highest seal of approval, their Platinum status. We've
we've been decorated and recognized a number of times by
the Association of Healthcare Philanthropy as one of the top
performing healthcare foundations in the country.
Speaker 1 (29:15):
And that is no.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Small feat due to the quality of medical talented on
our health and the generosity of this community. Well, Jared,
I think it comes from the top down, and you
are a great ambassador in your heart shows through what
you do. I can tell that you are not just
a guy with a job. You're a guy with a
mission and that is that is clear to see. So
thank you so much for spending some time with us.
(29:37):
I know you're a very busy guy. It was hard
to get you tracked down to get this happening, but
I'm happy that we're putting it on the radio across
all of our radio stations. And I think you're a
fabulous human being. And let's see a good, you know,
ageless version of you for a long time. All right,
you got it now, if we can just how to
(29:57):
regrow my hair, I'd be happy.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
Right, next round of research. We'll take care of that
stroke first here next, Thank you, Rich, Thanks a bunch
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