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w w w . i n s i g h t o n b u s i n e s s . c o m A u g u s t 2 0 17 • I NSIGH T | 21 WE'VE BEEN ACCOMPLISHING our mission at edaCare, which is to improve the health of the community where we serve, so to be able to leave at this point in time is really joyful. e bittersweet part will come when I start to think about the people I won't get to see all the time. What's always been on my mind is, "How do we keep people healthy?" As a family practice physician, that's how I was trained. We've had the best primary care performance in the Wisconsin Collaborative for Healthcare Quality. We've got 95 on- site clinics for employers. We've done a lot of community health improvement work with CHAT, our Community Health Action Team, which brings people together to study important issues. It has resulted in community ownership of problems — for example, Voices of Men on domestic violence, the Weight of the Fox Valley on obesity, what it's like to be black in the Fox Cities, and now we are looking at end-of-life issues. When you bring people together to work on community problems, then you're actually doing preventive medicine. You are creating a healthier, more loving community — which is good for business. I've got two thoughts on the Affordable Care Act. e logical part of me would say that Dean Gruner on nurturing a healthy community U P F R O N T FACE T I M E P H O T O G R A P H B Y B I L L K A P I N S K I / I M A G E S T U D I O S , F O R I N S I G H T Dr. Dean Gruner recently retired as president and CEO of edaCare, the largest employer in Northeast Wisconsin. As a family physician for almost 40 years, he says the highlight of his career was delivering babies. Gruner also led Touchpoint Health Plan for 17 years. He sat down with Insight Executive Editor Margaret LeBrun to talk about the current and future status of health care. [continued ] »