Entrepreneur Of The Year Celebrates Ambitious
Entrepreneurs Who are Shaping the Future
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., April 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Ernst & Young
LLP (EY US) today announced that Hugh
Lytle, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Equality Health, a
value-based care leader in U.S. healthcare, was named an
Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2024 Pacific Southwest Award
finalist. Now in its 38th year, Entrepreneur Of The Year is
the preeminent competitive business award for audacious leaders who
disrupt markets, revolutionize sectors and have a transformational
impact on lives. Over the past four decades, the program has
recognized the daring entrepreneurs with big ideas and bold actions
that reshape our world.
Lytle was selected as finalists by an independent panel of
judges. The candidates were evaluated based on their demonstration
of building long-term value through entrepreneurial spirit,
purpose, growth and impact, among other core contributions and
attributes.
Recognized for his "healthcare rebel" entrepreneurial spirit,
Lytle founded Equality Health in 2015 to address health
inequities in America, especially in underserved communities, and
to drive the change from fee for service to value-based care in the
U.S. health system. Value-based care is an enhanced care delivery
approach that shifts the focus from the quantity of services
rendered to quality care, resulting in enhanced patient experiences
and improved health outcomes at a reduced cost. Lytle has
created a company with a distinct Medicaid-first model to enable
independent primary care providers – a crucial resource in the U.S.
health system – to be successful in value-based care.
Lytle is in good company. See the full list of the Entrepreneur
Of The Year® 2024 Pacific Southwest Award finalist at
this EY news release.
Entrepreneur Of The Year honors many different types of business
leaders for their ingenuity, courage and entrepreneurial spirit.
The program celebrates original founders who bootstrapped their
business from inception or who raised outside capital to grow their
company; transformational CEOs who infused innovation into an
existing organization to catapult its trajectory; and
multigenerational family business leaders who reimagined a legacy
business model to fortify it for the future.
Regional award winners will be announced on June 7th during a special
celebration and will become lifetime members of an esteemed
community of Entrepreneur Of The Year alumni from around the
world. The winners will then be considered by the National
judges for the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Awards, which will
be presented in November at the annual Strategic Growth
Forum®, one of the nation's most prestigious gatherings
of high-growth, market-leading companies.
In addition to Entrepreneur Of The Year, EY US supports other
entrepreneurs through the EY Entrepreneurial Winning
Women™ program and the EY Entrepreneurs Access Network to
help connect women founders and Black and Hispanic/Latino
entrepreneurs, respectively, with the resources, network and access
needed to unlock their full potential.
Sponsors
Founded and produced by Ernst & Young
LLP, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards include presenting
sponsors PNC Bank, Cresa, Marsh USA, SAP and the Ewing Marion Kauffman
Foundation. In the Pacific Southwest, sponsors also include
platinum sponsors: Marsh McLennan Agency and Vaco; gold sponsors:
Cooley (San Diego market) and
Stradling (Orange County market)
and silver sponsors: Big Picture and DLA Piper (Arizona market).
Founded in 1986, Entrepreneur Of The Year® has
celebrated more than 11,000 ambitious visionaries who are leading
successful, dynamic businesses in the US, and it has since expanded
to nearly 80 countries and territories globally.
The US program consists of 17 regional programs whose panels of
independent judges select the regional award winners every
June. Those winners compete for national recognition at
the Strategic Growth Forum® in November where
National finalists and award winners are announced. The
overall National winner represents the US at the World
Entrepreneur Of The Year® competition. Visit
ey.com/us/eoy.
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About Equality Health
Equality Health is a
technology-enabled primary care platform that leverages the proven
capabilities of value-based payment models to transform healthcare
for diverse and often marginalized populations. From predictive
modeling to advanced care-tracking tools, participating PCPs can
streamline value-based administration. Equality Health's care model
is Medicaid-first in design, partnering with over 3,200 PCPs and
over 750,000 lives across Arizona,
Texas, Tennessee, Louisiana and Virginia. Equality Health partners with
practices to close care gaps, optimize performance, increase
compliance, and improve profitability. Members engage with holistic
and personalized programs delivered through the lens of social and
cultural needs. Equality Health is revolutionizing how care is
delivered by establishing critical linkages with payers, providers,
members, and community resources.
For more information about Equality Health, visit
equalityhealth.com or follow @EqualityHealth on Facebook,
@EqualityHealth on Twitter, and @EqualityHealth on LinkedIn.
Media Contact:
Mardi
Larson, Amendola Communications for Equality
Health, mlarson@acmarketingpr.com
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