What is required to put a nurse and community health worker in place in communities throughout the US? Elizabeth Tracey reports

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Primary healthcare delivered right where you are. Sounds like a fantasy, doesn’t it? Not if health insurers can see the benefits and choose to work together to fund this program, called Neighborhood Nursing, the brainchild of Sarah Szanton, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Nursing.

Szanton: What it will take to really be a success will be for the insurers to work together in one way or another. We think of the insurers as that being somebody else's money but the insurers are all of us. It's the taxpayers for Medicaid, it's the people we've all been paying into Medicare, when we work and then we pay into our health insurance through payroll deductions. So some people are uninsured and of course we're trying to get them insured as well but we have such a reactive system where hospitals get paid when something bad happens.  :32

Szanton says some states already have systems that reward preventive health care and Neighborhood Nursing is a logical extension of that. At Johns Hopkins, I’m Elizabeth Tracey.