Health Policy Essentials

About Health Policy Essentials

Your podcast for stories and policies at the heart of essential hospitals.

Publisher

America's Essential Hospitals

Category

government · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

5 Sept 2023

Latest episode

25 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

18 of 20 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Curing Sickle Cell Disease: One Patient's Journey at Jefferson Health

   Host Dr. Anya Sharma interviews patient Bunting MacCauley about his transformative journey to a cure for Sickle Cell Disease at Jefferson Health.

2. 

   3 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Fighting for Essential Hospitals: A Conversation with Board Chair Katrina Keefer

   Board Chair Katrina Keefer, president and CEO of DCH Health System, discusses the threats facing essential hospitals and this critical moment in the industry.

3. 

   5 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Food as Medicine: An Essential Ingredient at Boston Medical Center

   Dr. Jane Smith, Chief of Medicine, discusses how Boston Medical Center integrates food as medicine through its innovative rooftop farm, food pantry, and teaching kitchen to improve patient health.

Inside a recent episode

Curing Sickle Cell Disease: One Patient's Journey at Jefferson Health

Published 25 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And in approximately 5 to 10% of the time, they reject the donor stem cells. So we're pretty careful not to say or utter the word cure earlier on until, you know, a certain time lapsed where the odds of graft rejection becomes very, very low. That makes sense. Now, Bunting, since the transplant, how has your life been? For me, it's been an opportunity to actually reshape in how I think and operate now. One of the things that I tell my friends and I'll tell anybody is that might be taken for granted is actually the ability to go shovel snow and come back and not feel any pain. And it is something that for me last, this past winter was the first time I've ever done it and experienced it or just experiencing a changing of temperatures without any pain, even Myself and my brother jokes because he called me. […]

Who has been a guest on Health Policy Essentials

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Bunting MacCauley
• Katrina Keefer
• David Levine
• Donna Lynne
• Paula Chatterjee

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.2 / 5

5 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 16 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

2

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77