Episode 118: Improving Health in Healthy Communities with Rick Brush of Wellville

Rick is CEO of Wellville, a 10-year initiative founded by angel investor Esther Dyson to improve health and financial outcomes in five U.S. communities. In addition to overseeing the national project, Rick leads the Wellville effort in North Hartford, CT, working with Community Solutions and a multi-sector collaborative focused on achieving the Neighborhood Triple Aim: improved population health, wellbeing, and investment. Rick is also founder & CEO of Collective Health, which developed the Health Impact Bond, a pay-for-success financing model that leverages future health care cost savings to generate upfront investment in prevention. Before turning entrepreneur, Rick spent nearly a decade at the health insurer Cigna, where he was Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer for the national employer segment and launched the company's Communities of Health venture. Prior to that, Rick was a corporate strategist at Ford Credit, Bank One and KPMG. Rick graduated from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and lives with his wife and two children in Simsbury, CT.

Websites: Wellville.net, Collectivehealth.net

Twitter: @WayToWellville, @collectivehlth

Facebook: facebook.com/waytowellville

To reach Rick: rick@hiccup.co; LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/rrbrush

You can find out more at wellville.net or on twitter @waytowellville.