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Health System Strengthening
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Epilogue

Note of success

Roughly a year after our visit to Chicago, David Ansell wrote an email to Binta Beard, Head of US Social Impact and President of the Novartis US Foundation, detailing how the Novartis-sponsored E3 project has helped Rush to broaden its reach in the city to improve cardiovascular health.

Dear Binta,

I hope this note finds you well.

I wanted to inform you, on behalf of our team, that Rush has launched a Chicago-wide project to expand the learnings of the Novartis-sponsored E3 project to 107 clinics in 27 Chicago zip codes with higher than national heart disease mortality rates.

We have named this project Live Healthy Chicago and are partnering with many other institutions and insurers.

We have been informed that Live Healthy Chicago has been selected to receive a very competitive federal award, one of only two regions in the United States to be so awarded to test novel population health CVD risk reduction strategies.

I would not be exaggerating to say that the Novartis support to the E3 project helped us develop the insights to write a competitive and innovative proposal.

Sincerely yours,

David Ansell

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