April is National Minority Health Month, dedicated to raising awareness about health disparities ...

April 12th, 2017
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The work of a Washington D.C. collaborative of hospitals and FQHCs is benefiting the entire commu...

February 27th, 2017
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All future performance improvement projects will address health care disparities. That’s the comm...

December 12th, 2016

Hospitals and health systems are intensifying their focus to ensure all patients receive high-qua...

November 14th, 2016
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Join more than 900 hospitals and health systems and 30 state and metropolitan hospital associatio...

November 30th, 2015
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In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health ...

October 19th, 2015
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Nine in 10 adults in the community lacked the literacy skills to manage their health and prevent ...

September 28th, 2015
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The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health ...

July 27th, 2015
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Diversity and inclusion are key strategic goals at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in cen...

July 13th, 2015
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Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...

May 4th, 2015
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April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...

March 30th, 2015
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Working toward the Triple Aim of better care, better health and lower cost means achieving the go...

February 23rd, 2015
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University Hospitals, Cleveland, is advancing multiple care equity initiatives. The over 2,000-be...

January 12th, 2015
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Building a culture that is inclusive and founded on principles of diversity was a “key destinatio...

December 1st, 2014
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“Once a patient believes that you [the provider] understand them, we think the healing begins,” s...

September 8th, 2014
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A national leader in health care equity, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has developed s...

July 21st, 2014
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More than 20 hospitals came together with community organizations in the Cincinnati area to provi...

April 21st, 2014
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Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...

December 9th, 2013
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The path to eliminating disparities in health care has a few roadblocks: limited resources and ac...

December 2nd, 2013
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After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...

November 11th, 2013

Focusing on strategies to improve quality and achieve health care equity is a growing national pr...

October 14th, 2013
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Patients are becoming empowered. As health care consumers, they are reviewing publicly available ...

September 30th, 2013
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A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

August 19th, 2013
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Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...

May 13th, 2013
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April is National Minority Health Month. Launched in April 2001 by the National Minority Health F...

April 1st, 2013
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A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

March 4th, 2013
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During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...

December 17th, 2012
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Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

October 8th, 2012
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Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

March 19th, 2012
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Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...

October 31st, 2011
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A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

September 26th, 2011
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Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

August 22nd, 2011
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Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

September 20th, 2010
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Extending services beyond the hospital walls to its most vulnerable patients?that is the goal of ...

February 1st, 2010
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