Value Based Outdoor Healthcare℠ Promoting Structural Reform "Redefining What Health Means" -Purpose Driven
“We are not just treating symptoms — we are rebuilding health systems. Outdoor Healthcare stands for every individual’s right to heal in freedom, in community, and in connection with nature.”
1. Structural and Policy-Level Change
Shift from disease treatment to health creation: Redesign incentives and funding (including insurance reimbursement) around prevention, population health, and environmental determinants of health.
Integrate value-based and outdoor/community health models: Support new care pathways that address mental, social, and physical well-being together.
Regulate equity: Require outcome equity metrics (race, gender, geography, income) as part of hospital and insurer performance.
2. Care Delivery and Integration
End siloed care: Create interoperable systems where behavioral, physical, and social care providers share data and accountability.
Build community partnerships: Health care organizations must collaborate with local schools, parks, social services, and faith or cultural groups.
Humanize clinical environments: Incorporate trauma-informed, shame-sensitive, and nature-based design into clinical settings.
3. Workforce and Culture
Re-train professionals: Emphasize emotional intelligence, cultural humility, ecological literacy, and collaborative decision-making.
Protect frontline workers: Fair pay, mental health support, and manageable caseloads must become non-negotiable.
Flatten hierarchies: Physicians, nurses, social workers, and peer specialists should be equally respected as part of a care team.
4. Research, Data, and Innovation
Measure what matters: Move beyond short-term clinical metrics to long-term functional, relational, and community health outcomes.
Open science and biobank ethics: Ensure transparency, consent, and community benefit in research.
Invest in real-world, nature-based, and digital health studies rather than purely pharmacological trials.
5. Values and Governance
Rebuild trust: Shift from profit-driven to purpose-driven governance with community members on boards.
Acknowledge historical harm: Address institutional oppression, colonization, and medical trauma through truth-telling and reparative action.
Embed sustainability: Health systems must lead on climate action, green infrastructure, and socio-environmental justice.
