a change organization
Integral Leaders in Health is a public-benefit corporation (PBC) created by healthcare leaders to address South Carolina’s Medical Care Crisis.
We are not advocates or consultants. We are impact brokers creating the blueprint for a medical care system whose primary purpose is patient well-being and physician autonomy. ILH accomplishes this by bringing together like-minded partners to advance new projects, programs and strategies focused on two critical areas: medical care reform and physician realignment.
If you find that the medical care environment seems to get more difficult to navigate, you are not alone; it no longer places patient well-being as its top priority. It’s increasingly depersonalized, corporatized and characterized by doctor-patient burnout. We are committed to changing that.
our leaders
Our roster of seasoned professionals collectively have over 150 years of experience in healthcare, communications and government affairs. Our team has achieved actionable change before in S.C., and we couple those proven successes with fresh new perspectives we have gained through our work together.
Spence Taylor, M.D.
| Founder & Chief Executive Officer |
Jeff Powell
| President |
Cortney Easterling
| Chief of Staff & Director of Communications |
UNBALANCED –
The Evolving Medical Care Crisis
“For decades we have heard that the US healthcare system is in crisis — a Public Healthcare Crisis where population disease burden, poverty, and other social determinants of health have policy makers and healthcare administrators scrambling for solutions.
“However, we would like to suggest that there is another crisis looming — a crisis that threatens the basic foundation of medicine where patient well-being is no longer the primary objective: the Medical Care Crisis…”
Published in October 2023 and written by Spence M. Taylor, M.D. and Jerry Youkey, M.D. (ILH CEO and Director of Physician and Practice Relations, respectively) — “This book is written from the perspective of South Carolina physicians who have experienced the changes in US medical care firsthand over the past 30 years. We believe the examples we use from our state are applicable to all of America.”
Read more about the book’s premise and the motivation for writing it here.
