Lyft Business, today announced a partnership with Banner Health, one of the largest nonprofit health systems in the country to offer ride sharing for patients. Patients at Banner Health’s 28 hospitals, 46 urgent care sites and hundreds of centers, clinics and specialty care locations, will now be able to use Lyft to easily get to and from important medical appointments. In addition, Lyft and Banner will work toward creating innovative programs that could help increase access to health care.
Today, 3.6 million Americans can’t get the care they need because they don’t have the transportation to or from their doctors’ office. This can lead to consequences like emergency room visits and expensive hospital stays, and cost millions of dollars annually in inefficiency and lost time.
Earlier this year, Lyft made a commitment to reduce the healthcare transportation gap by fifty percent. Today’s partnership with Banner Health is yet another step in achieving this goal.
“Finding best in class partners to support us in our focus on customer experience is a key part of our strategy,” said Scott Nordlund, chief strategy & growth officer at Banner Health. “We have an $8 billion health and healthcare enterprise focusing on our mission to make healthcare easier so life can be better. Lyft will be an important piece of what helps us better serve our populations.”
Lyft Business serves thousands of health care organizations, touching millions of patients’ lives:
– Lyft partners with many organizations in the NEMT space to improve accessibility for communities in need of better transit options to health care appointments including Blue Cross Blue Shield, Ascension, Sutter, Circulation and Allscripts
– 9 out of the top 10 largest US health systems work with Lyft
– 10 of 10 brokers that manage Medicaid transportation are with Lyft
Based in Arizona, Banner Health is one of the largest nonprofit health care systems in the country. The system owns and operates 28 acute-care hospitals, Banner Health Network, Banner – University Medicine, academic and employed physician groups, long-term care centers, outpatient surgery centers and an array of other services; including Banner Urgent Care, family clinics, home care and hospice services, pharmacies and a nursing registry. Banner Health is in six states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada and Wyoming.
