Game Changers - by Travis Lefever & Amanda Lefever (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

What if the best medicine isn't found inside a hospital--but outside, in your neighborhood?

Healthcare workers didn't choose their profession for the paperwork. They came to heal. Now, many are searching for a way back to that purpose.

Game Changers reveals a powerful solution already transforming lives: mobile healthcare. From city blocks to rural roads, a new model of medicine is emerging, with clinicians bringing care directly to patients, rebuilding trust, and closing access gaps once thought impossible to fix.

Travis and Amanda LeFever share their personal journey and introduce the pioneers who are changing healthcare by returning to its roots: neighbors caring for neighbors. This is a movement fueled by compassion and backed by a proven, scalable business model.

Whether you're a provider, policymaker, or community leader, this book shows how mobile health can reduce burnout, lower costs, improve outcomes, and restore dignity to care.

Key takeaways:

• Learn how mobile health reduces disparities in access
• Discover sustainable business models that power community care
• Find new ways to reignite your professional purpose
• Explore stories of servant leaders making real impact
• Understand why trust--not just treatment--is key to transformation

Game Changers is your roadmap to help heal people, and the system itself, by meeting patients where they are.

Review Quotes

"Travis and Amanda expose the critical gaps between facility-centric strategy and community health reality--then show you exactly how to close them. Your status quo will be challenged. As they put it: 'This book serves those who serve others.'"
-- Nido Qubein, PhD
President, High Point University

"Travis and Amanda bring a builder's practicality, a leader's vision, and a relentless focus on what actually works to a proven strategy for sustainable community health. The result: mission and margin in perfect balance."
-- Paul McGann, MD
Former Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)

"Travis and Amanda offer an essential guide to care without walls--one written from the heart. You'll see your patients in these pages. This book is required reading for mobile opioid treatment program providers."
-- Eric Morse, MD
Addiction and Sports Psychiatrist, Morse Clinics

"Travis and Amanda reframe employer health strategy in a way that finally makes sense. Game Changers answers the questions benefits leaders are asking: Why don't employees use the coverage we provide? How do we reduce costs while improving outcomes? Read this book."
-- Eric Beck
Senior Vice President, National Non-Profit Practice Leader, Marsh McLennan Agency

"Travis and Amanda bring implementation experience, policy fluency, and a relentless focus on outcomes to a proven framework for community health transformation. The result: a blueprint for scaling effective health programs across the country."
-- Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH
National Advisor, Manatt Health; former Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2023-2025); former Secretary, NC Dept of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS) (2017-2021); former Chief Operating Officer, CMS (2013-2017)

"As a former community health system CEO, I wish I'd had this book years ago. Travis and Amanda bring value creation from economically invisible populations to life in ways that make previous attempts feel academic by comparison. Keep it on your desk as you navigate network adequacy, community health access, and join the new momentum in building mobile healthcare infrastructure."
-- David B. Vliet
VlietHealth/Mobile Health Strategies: Guatemala; former CEO, LifeLong Medical Care; founding member, Advocates for Community Health

"This powerful, deeply personal journey - from losing a father to a preventable heart attack to confronting what it means to truly serve others--anchors a mission to improve healthcare delivery in our country. By turning grief into a blueprint for service, this book shows how mobile healthcare can reshape access, improve trust, and delivery quality healthcare to communities everywhere."
-- Mary Kathryn Fallon
Acting Director, The Family Van and Mobile Health Map, Harvard Medical School

"Travis and Amanda LeFever embody commitment to mission, determination, and an abiding belief in the inherent goodness of others. Travis frequently says, "I want more for you than I want from you." ...and he means it. The pages of this book tell the story of an extraordinary mission-driven organization with a transparent, vibrant, people-centered culture. As a life-long student of leadership behavior, I have tremendous respect for the healthcare leaders profiled in this book. Read Game Changers to learn more about how patients, providers, healthcare executives, and payers are benefitting immensely from the hard work, innovation, products, and services of the exceptional team at Mission Mobile Medical."
-- Dennis Wagner
Principal and Managing Director, Yes And Leadership, LLC; former senior executive at the CMS

"As a physician who began practicing medicine in a patient-centered medical system in post-Soviet Ukraine, I enthusiastically endorse this important manuscript which reimagines and maps out necessary efficiencies and practicalities to be implemented in a future patient-centered healthcare system which are unaccounted for within the current hospital-centered medical system in the USA."
-- Andrew (Andriy) Batchinsky, MD
Founding Program Director and Senior Scientist, Autonomous Reanimation and Evacuation (AREVA) Research Institute and the Basil A. Pruitt, Jr. Innovation Center, The Geneva Foundation; Professor, Director of Department of Translational Medicine, University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine, San Antonio, Texas; Professor of Surgery and Medicine, Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD

"Two of the greatest people I know, always leading with heart and passion."
-- Command Sergeant Major Gretchen Evans, U.S. Army (Retired)
Bronze Star and Purple Heart recipient; 2022 Pat Tillman Award for Service; U.S. Army Women's Hall of Fame; Founder of Team UNBROKEN

"Travis and Amanda have brought new energy and perspective to how healthcare decision-makers can more effectively improve access to healthcare for our most vulnerable neighbors. Game Changers answers the question executives with heart are always asking: How do we better serve our community, and those patients who might never walk through our doors?"
-- Daniella Jaimes-Colina, PhD, MBA, MPH
CEO, Piedmont Health Services, Inc., North Carolina's first Federally Qualified Health Center

"Through trial and error and by working with those at the front lines, at the administrative level, and at the policy level, Travis and Amanda have the direct experience in building systems that will WORK in improving the lives of those who are often not heard, and who may not even know what they need themselves. It's a significant shift in how we currently think about healthcare delivery (and, more broadly, about improving lives and communities in general), but they provide the evidence and arguments to support it."
-- H. Roger Tang, PhD
Chief Technical Officer, Triple Ring Technologies

Travis and Amanda bring operational credibility, financial rigor, and a relentless focus on outcomes in their goal to bring more healthcare access to communities in need. They are steadfast in their commitment to identify and manage chronic disease early and can go where others simply cannot."
-- Gordon L. Chen, MD
CEO, ThriveWell; ChenMed Board Member, Principal, and former Chief Medical Officer

"Practical. Proven. Sustainable. Travis and Amanda deliver community health that works... on mission and on margin."
-- Rich Armstrong
Former President, Great Game of Business; Executive, SRC Holdings Corporation; Board Member, National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO)

About the Author

TRAVIS LEFEVER is co-founder of Mission Mobile Medical Group, an international leader in mobile healthcare innovation. Together with Amanda LeFever, they've helped transform how care reaches underserved communities--one neighborhood at a time. Their mission-driven leadership honors a legacy of service, compassion, and the belief that healthcare should meet people where they are.

AMANDA LEFEVER is co-founder of Mission Mobile Medical Group, an international leader in mobile healthcare innovation. Together with Travis LeFever, they've helped transform how care reaches underserved communities--one neighborhood at a time. Their mission-driven leadership honors a legacy of service, compassion, and the belief that healthcare should meet people where they are.