Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...

L.A. Care Health Plans developed an innovative video designed to inform deaf and hard-of-hearing ...

In a society as culturally diverse as the United States, especially in New York City,  members of...

In 2005, the University of Washington School of Medicine was awarded a grant from the National In...

Interest in cross-cultural communication in health care has increased in recent years as provider...

Although, increasing diversity in the health care workforce and training health care providers to...

This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...

The use of cross-cultural diversity forum isexamined. The forums use technology and tools to brin...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at  Har...

Clinicians and health care providers incorporate evidence-based clinical interventions to improve...

The ADA committee at the Kaiser Woodland Hills facility was started in 2010 in an effort to compl...

This case study looks at he Joint Commission's recommendation related to culturally and linguisti...

Little is known about the unique health needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans...

Beginning in August 2007, the Arizona Department of Health Services' Health Disparities Center or...

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Pharmacy developed a curriculum to add...

The Cancer Legal Resource Center, joint program of the Disability Rights Legal Center and Loyola ...

Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...

African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

Today health disparities remain a constant challenge for immigrants, refugees and displaced popul...

This case study explores the process of accessing health care from the perspective of the immigra...

Many immigrant parents rely on their children to help them communicate as ad hoc interpreters in ...

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...

In order to deliver the highest quality and most appropriate health care, Georgia Health Sciences...

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, a division of Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc., is a Catholic, no...

Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...

The need for cultural competence among physician providers is widely recognized by accrediting bo...

As the United States becomes increasingly diverse and as individuals choose to be more acculturat...

A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...

Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...

Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...

The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...

Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

This web seminar provided participants with information about diversity management, cultural comp...

Though more work needs to be done, our nation's hospitals are making advancements in providing qu...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

Although Maryland enjoys the third highest median income in the United States, the state suffers ...

Among the agencies that have made a substantial effort toward competency is the Nursing Home Ombu...

During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...

University of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, MS623 Beds The Problem University of Mississipp...

University HospitalsCleveland, OH1,032 Beds The Problem To address the changing demographics of ...

This article assesses the potential impact of P4P on national hospital disparities using a two-me...

Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

HHS final standards for data collection on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language and disability ...

In 2003 the Institute of Medicine called on health plans to collect data on their members  race a...

The October issue focuses on disparities in health care, including an article on high-cost, low-q...

A video on how to care for blind or sight-impaired individuals in a hospital

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...

This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, offers the latest resources and tools to p...

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

This guide serves to explore the concept of cultural competency and build the case for the enhanc...

The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...