Southern Oregon’s provider shortage is not just a recruitment problem. It is a structural problem — shaped by healthcare costs, housing costs, wildfire insurance risk, burnout, and the lack of a community-level mechanism to act collectively.

In the last episode, we mapped the problem. Jackson and Josephine counties have fewer primary care providers than they need, behavioral health waits can stretch for months, and existing tools like loan repayment and rural incentives help at the margins without changing the underlying cost-of-living environment.

In this episode of Reimagine Healthcare, Noah Volz introduces a model that could point toward a more structural solution: Peak Health Alliance.

Peak Health Alliance began in Summit County, Colorado — a healthy, affluent ski-region community that had b ...