Community investments help foster the social and physical environments that support communities’ long-term health. In this first episode in a series, Doug Brown, CEO of UMass Memorial Community Hospitals and chief administrative officer of UMass Memorial Health, and Lillian Montoya, president and CEO of CHRISTUS St. Vincent Health, discuss how their health systems are investing in their communities to address affordable housing, food insecurity and other needs to improve the health of individuals and communities. Listen here, and learn more on AHA’s Community Investment Conversations page.

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