Earlier this year, U.S. News & World Report and the Aetna Foundation collaborated to launch the Healthiest Communities rankings. The program received significant national and local attention and has helped empower citizens, health care leaders and officials to make decisions about policies and practices that can improve health outcomes for all.

The Healthiest Communities rankings have become a cornerstone of the Aetna Foundation’s mission of building healthy communities, and the collaboration with U.S. News & World Report continued at their annual “Healthcare of Tomorrow” conference in Washington, D.C. The conference unites the nation’s top health care leaders – me....