Join your peers for an interactive roundtable on how employers can apply precision health strategies to deliver more inclusive, effective benefits. Dr. Washington will kick off with insights on measuring whole-person health and designing care solutions that truly meet employees where they are. From there, the conversation will open up for attendees to share challenges, successes, and practical ideas for closing care gaps and improving outcomes across all employee populations.
Discussion topics include:
- What questions to ask when designing benefits to support all employee populations
- How to apply precision health principles in benefit design and selection to better serve the diverse needs of their workforce.
- How to use data and measurement to tailor approaches and reduce care gaps among underserved groups.
Transcription:
Vindell Washington (00:10):
Thanks everybody. I'm always impressed whenever we're in Vegas and people show up to any of the conferences, so I'm very happy about that. So the crack marketing team, I gave a little bit of this speech a month or so ago, and they came to me and they said, "Washington, that speech was good and it was original." And then they said, "The problem is the original stuff wasn't very good and the good stuff we've all heard before." So what I'm going to try to do is rewind a little bit, give it another swing. I'm going to spend just a little bit of time, I would say, sort of in the preamble, give you a little bit about the direction I'm coming from, but most of this is really about you. So we'll move relatively quickly into a session where we'll ask you to work in your tables on a few ideas and principles that we can sort of bring to light with a little bit of a report out afterwards.
(00:58):
And I think that's probably the best afternoon, after-dinner kind of activity for a group. And so I think the interactive piece is a little better. So for me personally, one of the things I'll just underscore is my perspective on things. The introduction did say that I was privileged to lead our Health Equity Center of Excellence, and so I have some principles we'll come back to. But in general, our approach here is to say that we're really about meeting the individual where they are. And we've decided specifically in the way we've structured it, not to have health equity as a side activity, but to really say we're talking about principles integrated into our daily activity as a company and the work that we do, not so much that it is an entity that sits off to the side. So I really am focused on the clinical quality effort and I make sure that it's broad enough to cover all the populations that we serve.
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And generally what we bring to the market is a set of solutions around chronic disease management and the clinical perspective, but also a platform that supports all kinds of evidence generation and answers that folks want who are providing care to those who are most in need. So that's our framework. From a company perspective, I'll say that the solutions—we're an Alphabet company that comes out of Google as a parent in 2015—so the solutions are largely technical, but I do lead a team that has doctors, nurses, pharmacists, other folks that provide direct care, but that care is augmented by the digital solution. And most of what we'll try to talk about today in terms of precision health is how we use that data to get down to an end of one or to an individual approach that's really aimed at helping folks in that way.
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So I have a little bit of an intro that I'll go through in terms of the construct and the concepts that we'd like to cover. I'll make that really short, I promise. Then we'll pivot to really three framework questions that I'll ask you to help me engage in, and we'll do some readouts after that. That's this one around defining needs, the design aspect (and I'll share one of our examples that we're most proud of as a company), and the third one is really on the getting buy-in in companies that you're working with and how do you measure that you've made any progress or any real success over the course of time. Many of you in this room don't need this as a primer or as a reset, but I'll start this as a grounding exercise. It's basically to point out two things. One is even with the advances that we're making—and I'm super proud of what's going on in the house of medicine with things around CAR T therapy and monoclonal antibody therapy and curing things we never thought about curing before.
(03:29):
If you look at the sort of core of chronic disease, and this is really cardiometabolic disease as a driver, it is not getting better year over year. The percentages are worsening. And in particular, there are some segments of groups that are particularly having trouble in this timeframe. I've highlighted two in particular here. I've talked about rural adults and I've talked about marginalized racial and ethnic groups that have multiples on the chronic disease sort of burden. But you all know in your companies you need each and every one of those folks to contribute, each and every one of those folks to participate and drive value for your company. So this represents a problem and these are not single source data points I'm trying to provide here. Some of these are from CDC reports, the World Health Organization. Almost anyone who takes the time to measure comes up with a conclusion that we're in some trouble in this space.
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And I also don't need to remind you and our current system of healthcare coverage that many of you bear the brunt of this problem, that the cost and the dollars that are spent particularly on the chronic disease, fall on employers to carry largely. Now, if you think about the way the healthcare dollar is split up, I will attest to the point that governmental payers pay for a large bit of care delivery in the system, but companies also pay their taxes to support that, and it's a big dollar amount. So I mentioned before some of the sort of cutting-edge therapies, and it is true that now we have monoclonal antibody disease treatments that cost a million dollars a year. That is very true, but the proportion of the population that affects is relatively small. The reason it's such an outsized problem is really based in this fact that so many people are susceptible to these chronic diseases that are based on increased weight that lead to diabetes and other sequelae from that increased weight.
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And even now we are coming up with more and more great solutions. Those solutions like GLP ones are still very, very expensive for employers to cover. So one of the things that we talk about pretty broadly is how do you get to the right benefits design? How do you actually spur the right behaviors from individuals? How do you align what's good for the individual with what's good for the company? And often those things do have a large amount of overlap in terms of people being able to contribute and live their best lives. That's an important concept for us. And one of the things that we're really pushing forward here for your consideration is this concept of precision health. So what do we mean by precision health? It's to really take a step back and say it is not just a single lab value that determines what treatment you should receive.
(06:20):
It's a lot of elements about you, a lot of elements about your health that actually determine what it is that is likely to be successful in your life in these spaces. The one thing I'll point out to you, one of my favorite examples is around acute myelogenous leukemia. So it's a disease process that is a tough disease for anyone to carry as a diagnosis. The survival rate at five years is somewhere around 40%. The more and more we dig into that disease, the more and more refining it's like breast cancer, that it's not a single disease. And the more we dig into those sub-elements, where you live, the air you breathe, the nutrition, you have access to, have outsized predictions in people's survival rate at the five-year mark. So the point of this is there is no one-size-fits-all solution in this space.
(07:10):
Having a targeted approach and an end of one approach is super important. So understanding and identifying these unique characteristics about individuals, the ones that show themselves to be important in terms of their outcome and how folks are able to live their best life is a critical element. I think what that means too, in terms of how you're thinking about benefits design and what health plans do and supportive employers and what employers do in their own sponsored plans, is to say you have to have elements that are able to meet your members and your employees where they are. And what that often means is more nuance in the design that comes forward. And I would say the benefit we have thinking about these things in this element is that we have the technology and tools to do that kind of end of one work. I would say and say all the time in our workplace, if we were not in this age of machine learning, not in this age of data science, not in this age of high computed low cost, we would not be able to do the kinds of things that we think are necessary.
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So in our framework, this better care from us from a delivery perspective is dependent on this data and the data structure that's available and allows us to do things that we would've not been able to do in the past. And so I want to cover one other item and then we'll move our way into sort of the questions. So anytime I've had an opportunity to talk to people about advances in artificial intelligence, the great things that are happening in data science, it becomes very clear to me very quickly that we're on the cutting edge of a lot of important elements, but that also means the cutting edge sometimes cuts in the right direction, sometimes cuts in the wrong direction. So we have a point of view, I'll share with you on how this approach should be taken. My plea would be even though we know that there's some problems with the way others and across the entire ecosystem are deploying some of these artificial intelligence tools, our point on this is that done correctly, we think there's a great upside in this work to be done, and we know that there are elements that could go off track. And as a person who's really leading our health equity efforts, I'm particularly determined to make sure that we don't increase the disparities exist in health outcomes, but we have a focus that allows us to deliver really better care for all in this space.
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So how do we do that? I'll end with a couple of frameworks on the principles that we think are particularly important and we'll get to the audience participation part of this. And so one of the things that we think about a lot and dig into deeply is this thing about design and designing with people that we're trying to serve as opposed to for the people we're trying to serve. So for us, that ends up as focus groups, not necessarily focus groups for two hours, but design groups that we keep for 12 weeks at a time.
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I think the corollary, particularly when it comes to things like benefits design, is you really have to be talking to and really in close contact with those you're trying to serve again, because we're confident that there's not a one-size-fits-all framework. The second is it's not just enough to look at what CMS is measuring this moment in time or maybe a CDC report out for what's measured in time. The sort of concept of a broader measurement around how people are living their lives, how their perspective of their health, this movement over the past decade for patient-reported outcomes we think is actually critical and important as we think about really what's going on in health and delivery. And then the last thing, you don't really change or address things that you don't measure. So what is the robust measurement structure or framework that you have in place to make sure that you're getting to your desired outcomes when you go forward in this space?
(10:46):
And the last thing I'll say about this, and this is what I would say to you when you're looking at any folks who are in this space of delivering technology-supported care, is that health tech can be a pretty perilous space. What I mean by that is it's very easy on the technical side to deliver the toy and not the tool. It's very easy to be enamored by the solution that's being brought. I mean, you have lots of smart engineers. I tell people all the time, I practiced medicine for 25 years. When I was on the medicine side, someone said there's no one that's more proud of the work that they've done than a neurosurgeon. I've found one other group Google engineers. In that framework, we're talking about people who are very smart, very oriented toward the thing they do particularly well. But this is absolutely a team sport that the solutions we bring together, the AI agents, we put forward, the measurement frameworks have to solve real problems and work in concert.
(11:47):
And we're particularly proud of the group of doctors, nurses, pharmacists, others that are at the bedside and our patient user groups who help us design the solutions that come out. And it's not just what the smartest engineer behind a PC can deliver to folks. Okay. So we're going to pivot. I appreciate you allowing me to go through that section of the talk, but we really want to pivot a bit here and get some input from you as you're thinking through those concepts we're trying to lay out. So the real one that we'll start with is this idea about you and defining these elements and your company what groups may be underserved by the offerings that you have today from a benefits perspective or support perspective? And then if you're using any data to sort of close these gaps. And I think what we were planning on, I think that there are some groups of two or three. I would encourage you if you're in a group of less than three, maybe join your neighbors for this part of the exercise. And what I'd like to do maybe is start with just a tiny bit of intro, like a minute or two to introduce yourself, five minutes to sort of discuss the questions themselves. And we'll do a little bit of a readout after that. Does that work for folks?
(13:08):
Good. Okay. Sounds like a lot of good conversation. I hate to be the guy who breaks up the party. Hello? Yeah. I hate to be the guy that breaks up the party, but I do want to hear that I've heard a lot of good conversation as I was sort of wandering around. So maybe what we'll do is maybe just start with the back table, work our way, kind of a serpentine kind of thing. And given the time constraints, maybe a minute, minute and a half or so as we go around the tables and just your overall output, and don't have to do all three, but one of the questions that maybe you think the group might benefit from. So did you guys decide on a spokesperson? Don't worry, they'll get to talk on the next one if they don't talk on this. Great.
Audience Member Kelsey Peterson (14:10):
Oh man, the microphone is so exciting. So we didn't get to all three questions. We were having too much fun actually talking about the first two, but we basically kind of rounded around specifically some eligibility issues that are difficult to overcome when you might have a really great comprehensive plan, but if you can't keep people on the plan all the time, how can we benefit people? But then also creating different plan tiers that can get the people that need it into high deductible plans, but also having a tier that covers people that are at a higher medical need, expecting to go to the doctor and how important it is to educate your employees on their HSA so that they are taking advantage of the high deductible so that if they have to pay the high deductible, there's a benefit on the other side.
Vindell Washington (14:59):
Super good program design. And that's really kind of at the heart of some of these questions, but I was remiss, name and your institution.
Audience Member Kelsey Peterson (15:08):
Oh, my name's Kelsey Peterson. I'm the Benefits Manager for American Seafood Group in Seattle, Washington. We're a commercial fishing company, hence my eligibility problems.
Vindell Washington (15:18):
For sure. Thank you, Kelsey. Okay, how about this table here?
Audience Member Stacey (15:23):
I think I'm probably the spokesperson. I'm Stacey. I lead the Global Benefits Services Team at Income Payments. Thank you. And we also primarily discussed the first two topics. And so I think that from our perspective, we're trying to still identify what the needs are for our very diverse workforce and the needs are constantly changing. We just recently acquired a warehouse group, whereas the majority of our other employees are in technology. And so relatively highly paid, I would say 45 in terms of the age group. And so this other warehouse group provides a very different type of demographic, a very different employee or customer for our teams. And so trying to determine what are those barriers to healthcare and how do we meet them. And actually while you were speaking, I was thinking about one of the things that we've recently done because the majority of the folks down in the warehouse actually speak Spanish and they don't really understand the process for taking or needing leave. And that falls under my umbrella as well. And so we've put together a package on "Here's what you need to do when an employee comes to you, manager, and says, 'I need to take a leave of absence'" because there's that communication barrier there. And so just trying to get them to the right team so that they can find all the resources that are really available to them.
Vindell Washington (17:05):
Yeah, really that framework of saying this is a group who may have different needs, what are those needs really at the heart of the... Yes.
Audience Member Angela Hudgens (17:19):
Hi, Angela Hudgens. I'm the CHRO of Keystone Cooperative. We're an agricultural cooperative based in Indianapolis. We've spent a lot of time around question two. We feel like most of our population is underserved. We're pretty rural, predominantly male, don't believe in primary care. Things typically get caught late stage, low utilization on preventative care services. And then we talked a little bit about three, we have good data from our broker, so we feel like we know the gaps. It's just figuring out how to close them. Yeah.
Vindell Washington (18:02):
Yeah. Great. Great answer. Appreciate that. How about this group? Yeah, perfect. Yeah.
Audience Member Kelly Henderson (18:12):
Hi, I am Kelly Henderson and I lead Total Rewards for Aflac. We're based in Columbus, Georgia, and one of the things that we're working through now is our employee population. So we have a large group of employees that are onsite and that's what we historically were. And then with some acquisitions and also with the pandemic, we've kind of changed how we recruit. So we now have employees in all 50 states. We've purchased some businesses that were all remote. So now we have to think about how our benefits are offered for those onsite versus remote and making sure that we're equitable there. So we use a lot of data like y'all do from your broker on the remote population versus onsite. But we do things like have an onsite care center that they can go get treatment. So then do we do virtual care for those remote? Just making sure that those groups aren't forgotten.
Vindell Washington (19:06):
Appreciate that. Thank you.
Audience Member Ba (19:13):
I'm Ba and I'm from Milwaukee. I am in the investment industry, so the firm is called Artisan Partners. And I was just sharing with the group that the way we see benefits that we do is we want to be distraction-free. So our plan is actually just one health plan for everyone, no matter, I think it's okay whether you're like a PM or you are a support staff, everybody gets the same benefits. Also, we also try to be, well not try, but we equalize everybody by covering deductibles fully with the HSA, so that again, no distractions. And then we talked a little bit about how to make it equal, where if a PM was to call and say, "I want this kind of surgery covered," because we're self-funded, how do we make sure that we cater to them and then support staff and to make sure that we're not saying no to the support staff, but we're saying yes to this PM. So that's kind of finding the balance, but it does help that because we see all of the data and we can really, when we're putting or implementing a new coverage or any kind of benefit, we can really have the support and the data to back it up and say, "This is why we're doing this."
Vindell Washington (20:47):
That's great. Thank you, Ba. I think there is a theme that's coming through that does sort of align on the precision health side, sort of identification and making sure that you're measuring. And then a lot of the solutions I think are great solutions as we've heard people talk about ways to increase access, et cetera. So I, I'm going to call an Audible and I think what I want to do as we sort of go, I had one more slide here about the co-design. I won't spend much time on it. I think we would, I want to make sure we have enough time to hear from you. This is just to underscore this idea of really the people who know what they need are the folks that you're trying to serve. So this is back to serving your members, your employees with an ear to the ground.
(21:29):
But it sounds like a lot of the solutions you've talked about have come from some of those conversations. But what I want to do in this last, so we'll combine the last two questions into one and I'll ask you to focus on two items for this next one. The first question here, I think people would love to hear about what's worked, what's worked in your institution. And then the second one is this idea about business case. So just take the first question from the design piece, what's been working, and then the second question from this, in terms of the business case, we'll have five minutes of your discussion, five minutes of the readout, and it'll take us pretty close to our closeout time.
(22:15):
Okay guys, let's do our final readouts. I'm super excited for this part. As I'm wandering around, I got podcasts going on over here. I got newsletters, I got all kinds of solutions that I think you'll be interested in hearing as people have been talking about what works for them. So I'll start with the first question on what's worked for you, and then I'd be shocked if there's no one in here who hasn't had to try to make a business case for this work. And so if you want to share any of those stories, it doesn't have to be the same person at the table, but anyone who's had to do either of those things, I'd love to hear from you. So let's start in the back again. Actually, we'll do a reversal flip. Oh.
(23:01):
How about in the back over here?
Audience Member 6 (23:10):
Am I answering the first question or the...
Vindell Washington (23:13):
Either.
Audience Member 6 (23:14):
Okay.
Vindell Washington (23:14):
Dealer choice.
Audience Member Ba (23:16):
With business cases, I do a lot of onboarding at our firm and I always tell new hires, "We're not the norm." So I was like, we do some, they're kind of extreme, but one of the recent cases that we had to, I guess we have a benefits committee and our medical provider, our UMR, was trying to get us on this pre-authorization list to add more to our list, and we brought it to the committee. We were like, here's the data, here's how much we have to pay in fees. And they were asking questions, and we can't disclose who's getting what types of treatments, but essentially they backed up and they said, "Just pay the fee. It's like $10,000, pay the fee a month because we don't want to make any disruptions. We don't want to get calls from anybody." And in that way, it was pretty easy to make a case because of, I guess the fear of getting someone mad or a certain group mad, which at the end benefited everybody else in the firm because we're now just paying. So it wasn't too hard, but we definitely had to have some of those, the data behind it and really make a case like this might impact and disrupt some groups of people. And they were pretty quick to tell us to just pay the money.
Vindell Washington (24:41):
Data, data is king, it sounds like, I don't know if this is cheating, but I'll do it.
Audience Member 7 (24:56):
So when we talked about health equity and what has worked, we talked a lot about what hasn't worked as a table. So we haven't really had a lot of experience in designing and deploying and being able to measure it. But what we did see, what worked in thinking through thoughtful benefit design was incentivizing employees. And so we talked a little bit about programs that have worked well, has had equitable skin in the game for employees that performed and measuring the value was done by some third-party organizations, like some platform organizations with my health plans to measure the impact and value. And then from a business case perspective, we talked a little bit about this. ROI is a little bit more challenging. So we talked about how it was really around employee surveys and engagement and really tracking what the demand there is for these types of programs. That was our discussion.
Vindell Washington (25:56):
Very good. Thank you for that. Thank you.
Audience Member 8 (26:08):
Even though I wasn't here for the discussion, I've been tapped to be the speaker for the group.
Vindell Washington (26:13):
That's what they always say, never leave, you'll be volunteered.
Audience Member Stacey (26:16):
That's right. That's right. So I would say since about 2019, we have seen some incredibly sick employees, primarily some spouses, but primarily young individuals who have been facing some really just horrific diagnoses. And so trying to put different measures in place, one of which we already spoke about was our wellness plan to try to just build that culture of wellness. But we've also partnered with USI, who is our broker, who introduced us to the Samaritan Fund. If you guys aren't familiar with Samaritan Fund, I would highly recommend that you look into them. They are a nonprofit organization and have angel investors who oftentimes have individuals that they are family members, friends that have been touched with different diseases, and so they donate funds. And the intention is that these individuals who apply for Samaritan Fund who are high-cost claimants, they move off of your medical plan.
(27:32):
They go on to an individual health plan through the private exchange, and in exchange for having all of their medical bills paid for, they are able to share their data with the group at Samaritan Fund. So all of that data is being pulled together. They're looking at different treatment options and trying to really assist these individuals who have horrible conditions. And so it's honestly a win-win for everyone because the individual, again, is getting up to 100% of their medical bills paid for. They know in advance that their doctors and their treatments are going to be covered, and the medical plan is no longer having to cover the high cost, the exorbitant costs for that member. And in exchange, our organization pays a fee to Samaritan Fund. So it truly is, just in my opinion, groundbreaking type organization that has really been able to help a lot of our employees. I think we had almost 30 members in total move off of our plan last year as a result of this, and it mitigated a potential of, I think it came to about $3.4 million in projected claims.
Vindell Washington (28:59):
Wow. Fascinating solution.
Audience Member Stacey (29:01):
Yeah. Really is.
Vindell Washington (29:02):
Capture that. We'll talk about that at the close. Wrap up. Anyone at this table have any trouble making the argument for this effort in your companies? No. No. The question, what has worked? What has not worked? I haven't moved tables. Haven't moved tables. I've just changed questions asking about the business case at this table or anyone at your table. I know you left and got, but anyone or the business case, a program aiming to reduce inequities in your populations you're serving?
Audience Member Stacey (29:47):
I think that the intentional and strategic measures that we've put in place over the years have proven that we are able to mitigate high-cost claimants by ensuring that there's health equity, by ensuring that everyone is offered the same opportunities in terms of education for our wellness programming and providing resources and really communicating what those resources are so that people are aware of them and how to get that help that they need.
Vindell Washington (30:23):
Yeah, that's great. It seems like, so I'm trying to do the tally as we go. A few tables have talked about really data. If you collect the data and measure the data carefully, the use case, the business case in the data, if you actually, that's a great feedback. Yeah. Great. Okay. Two more tables. We'll go to the small but mighty table of three in the front. Yeah, that'd be great.
Audience Member Angela Hudgens (30:50):
So on the first question about what's worked, we've taken more of a stick approach rather than the carrot. We've started implementing wellness surcharges for those people that don't do their biometrics and participate in the different wellness events that we have. On the second question, we don't really have an issue with health equity. Our population pretty much looks about the same, so that's never really been an issue. But anytime that we want to bring a change to our overall plan, we definitely bring data with us. Our broker gives us really good data to bring in. So for example, we're going to start adding in advanced primary care in 2026, and we were able to get that approved pretty quickly because we had really good data to support how that would provide a good ROI.
Vindell Washington (31:51):
Super good. Thank you for that.
Audience Member Kelsey Peterson (31:56):
So what bring us...
Vindell Washington (31:57):
Home as they say.
Audience Member Kelsey Peterson (31:58):
What worked? I mean, I think there's a lot of what has worked and what hasn't worked, right? Things that we've tried and at one organization, education and things like that have worked a little bit better for me. But over here we've got people who've done a lot of education and they still can't get preventive care accomplished. And so that's really difficult. Specifically something that we've been trying is understanding what services, specific services our employee population needs. So I work with commercial fishermen, giant machines, running all the time, not a lot of time at home to do preventive care. So we increased our hearing aid benefit and hearing testing so that it was much easier for them to get hearing aids. We also made, once they did get home, all of their lab work was free. They don't have to do that anymore. All colonoscopies and breast exams are free no matter what age you are when you go to it, it doesn't matter if a doctor told you to or not.
(32:51):
And then of course, secondary breast exams for dense tissue and all, there's just no question if you get a mammogram, it's covered, just the end of the story. Same with colonoscopies and things like that. So those are things that have worked for us. I mean, business case is pretty easy. You just go to your CFO and you'd be like, "Hey, if this person has a heart attack, it costs this much money. And if they go and learn about it earlier, it's easy." I think all of those elements that I mentioned have a cost associated with them. But when we're looking at our larger claim dollar amounts, it's little things that employees really appreciate changing. Our vision hardware allowance from $300 to $500. Glasses are expensive and a little bit more is helpful. So maybe people use them more often, so they don't necessarily have a huge impact on the bottom line, but it's also about total employee wellness. And if you're really promoting your employees to live healthy lives, that's going to benefit you in ways that can't always be calculated monetarily, but kind of can because you're going to have people that are going to be staying on longer, you're going to have less overhead or less turnover, you're going to have less onboarding costs. All of those things are not, you can't specifically quantify them, but you can talk to people who are in those levels of your company that can do those kinds of things.
Vindell Washington (34:12):
Yeah, super good. I'll underscore just two quick things. This idea of soft cost, I think we all know they exist, and to your point, there's some folks in the org that have access to that data. I think data's come up a couple different times there. And the second one that resonates, I think, across what we do as a company as well, is you want to make the right thing the easy thing. And so all that list of attributes that makes it easier to get seen, takes away cost burdens for having tests done. I think that we find that over and over again as a theme. The other themes, I think around data as a driver, I think we can say that that was shared by several different tables here, measurement and talking with individuals. I love that theme as it's come through. And then this wellness plan, culture of wellness, cultural wellness.
(35:08):
What is the right thing to do? What do we do in this company? How do we act in this company? I think it's hard to underestimate that. I captured the ideas about the Samaritan Fund. We'll also sort of put a little synopsis at the end of the session, and then the communication piece. I know it didn't come out in this, but I promise you I did hear about podcasts as I walked around. Yes, the podcasts are in the back and other communication strategies, but again, about how do you make sure you connect with individuals. Sincere thanks for my part, for your participation and the great ideas that come through. Here is always an enriching environment when people bring their own expertise to these things. So I appreciate it. And again, thanks to you.