President & CEO, Family Health Center of Worcester
Building institutions that can sustain their mission.
I'm Lou Brady. I lead Family Health Center of Worcester, and my work connects community health, institutional resilience, leadership, and innovation. Once a month I write about that work in The Storehouse, a free publication on Substack.
About
Meet Lou
I am the President & CEO of Family Health Center of Worcester. My work sits where community health, institutional resilience, leadership, and innovation meet.
Three subjects keep drawing me back: the civil rights roots of community health, the legacy of Dr. John W. Hatch, and the economic capacity institutions need to sustain equitable care.
I think of them as one question asked three ways. How does an institution keep its promise to a community over time? This site is a short introduction to that question. The longer conversation happens each month in The Storehouse.
Ideas
Three themes I keep returning to
These are the threads that run through my work and my writing.
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Strong institutions, lasting mission.
A mission lasts only as long as the institution that carries it. I am interested in institutional resilience, and in the economic capacity an organization needs to sustain equitable care year after year.
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Community health's roots and future.
Community health has civil rights roots. I return often to that history, and to Dr. John W. Hatch's legacy, for what they ask of the people leading this work now.
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Innovation grounded in people's lives.
A new idea earns my attention when it starts with how people actually live and what they need from the places that care for them. That is the test I try to apply to innovation.
Contact
Get in touch
I am glad to hear from people doing this work. LinkedIn and email are the best ways to reach me.