Improving Public Health Goal of New Initiative
Watch Service '>Kenneth Robinson , former Tennessee commissioner of health.“My role in this is as a facilitator,” Luttrell said. “I look across the horizon and I see holes in our health care delivery system. Now I’m in the process of pulling in advisers who can better define what the holes are and how we can fill them.”
Healthy Memphis Common Table, a nonprofit, regional health care network of more than 200 community health organizations, will administer the project, and a Healthy Memphis Common Table employee will serve as director.
“They have a track record of working across platforms, with the business community, insurers, multiple hospitals, and over 200 community-based organizations that are stakeholders in health,” Robinson said. “Building upon their work will allow the (Healthy Memphis) Common Table to be an honest broker, a neutral party. They’re the logical intermediary for this kind of cross-sector, whole-community health improvement collaborative.”


