What if the thing keeping your grandmother out of the hospital isn’t a new drug, but a circle of chairs and a story about sharing lunch?

Behavioral health is tangled up in a striking share of hospital stays. Scott cites data that nearly a third involve a mental health or substance use condition, and “altered mental status” is one of the most common reasons older adults get admitted. On this episode of The Disrupted Podcast, Your Health founder and Chief Disruption Officer Scott Middleton walks Jamie Preston through a model he calls “therapy in a box.” It’s a facilitated group session that turns a weekly gathering into early detection, real connection and a billable encounter.

In this episode:

• Why senior living facilities keep asking for bingo, and what Your Health can offer instead
• How a chaplain’s take on the feeding of the 5,000 becomes a lesson in gratitude and generosity
• Using AI dictation to identify each speaker and document every resident’s participation
• Bringing a nurse practitioner, physician or psych NP into the room by phone or video each week
• Why a missed session should trigger a knock on the door, not a note in the chart

If you lead a care team, run a community or care for someone aging in place, this conversation will change what you think an “activity” can do. Press play, then go disrupt something.

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Healthcare has been cut into pieces, with a specialist here and a hospital there, and nobody holding the whole patient. Scott Middleton says the same problem shows up inside our own teams.

In Part 2 of this conversation, host Jamie Preston and Scott Middleton, owner and Chief Disruption Officer of Your Health, move from hiring philosophy to the frontline care team. Scott explains why clinical teams lean heavily toward C and S personalities, what that meant when Your Health launched hospice, and why the people who coordinate the team need a different wiring altogether.

In this episode:

• Why a hospice launch stalled when the care team was built for a different job
• How Medicare’s care management and care coordination codes put the provider at the center of the patient’s care
• Why a primary care provider often can’t see their own patient in the hospital, and why that makes no sense
• “What does a care manager do?” “Scheduling!” Why that answer is the problem
• A nurse practitioner who bought EKG strips with her own money, and the D and I behind that decision
• Scoring a whole team’s DISC mix, and why talent acquisition and engagement leaders should be DISC certified

If you lead a care team or have ever renamed a role and wondered why nothing changed, this one’s for you.

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We hire the people we like. And we like the people who are like us. That’s exactly the problem.

In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, host Jamie Preston sits down with Scott Middleton, owner and Chief Disruption Officer of Your Health, to talk about putting the right people in the right seats. Scott explains why Your Health has an unwritten rule against hiring your own direct reports, and Jamie breaks down what happens when a team is built from a single DISC personality type.

In this episode:

• Why leaders should let others hire their direct reports, and what bias that rule protects against
• What an all-D, all-I, all-S, or all-C team looks like in practice, and why each one stalls
• Why your real team is four or five people, not twenty
• “You’ll never get fired for arguing with me”: building a circle that will call you out
• How to read the clues behind someone’s personality, and why a blunt C often gets mistaken for a D
• The cost of pigeonholing people by their job title

If you’re hiring right now or wondering why your team keeps hitting the same wall, start here. Part 2 takes these ideas straight into the care team.

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