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April is National Minority Health Month, dedicated to raising awareness about health disparities ...
All future performance improvement projects will address health care disparities. That’s the comm...
Hospitals and health systems are intensifying their focus to ensure all patients receive high-qua...
In 2016, Cleveland Clinic was honored by the American Hospital Association (AHA) with its Equity ...
Join more than 900 hospitals and health systems and 30 state and metropolitan hospital associatio...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
Nine in 10 adults in the community lacked the literacy skills to manage their health and prevent ...
The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health ...
Diversity and inclusion are key strategic goals at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in cen...
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, works close...
Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...
April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...
University Hospitals, Cleveland, is advancing multiple care equity initiatives. The over 2,000-be...
This HPOE webinar, held in conjunction with the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, fea...
Read about how Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare developed a minority nusing program that identifies ...
Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...
This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...
Building a culture that is inclusive and founded on principles of diversity was a “key destinatio...
Based in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, Lehigh Valley Health Netwo...
Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., has two formal mentorship programs available to its...
The Minority Faculty Development Awards program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cl...
The University of Mississippi Medical Center created a Healthcare Disparities Council with 40 mem...
Greenville Health System in South Carolina overhauled its leadership search and selection process...
Recognizing the need for diversity management, Sparrow Heatlh System in Lansing, Mich., hired a d...
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management's Summer Enrichment Program matches and places m...
California's Central Valley is known for its abundant fruits and vegetables; however, many famili...
The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, a partner of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, ...
Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the nation's health professions workforce has many ...
The National Center for Health Care Leadership's diversity leadership demonstration project is th...
This HPOE webinar, held with the Institute for Diversity, highlights Henry Ford Health System, wh...
INTEGRIS Health is the largest Oklahoma-owned health care corporation. Its facilities cover the c...
This infographic provides a sample of the findings from the 2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Ben...
“Once a patient believes that you [the provider] understand them, we think the healing begins,” s...
A national leader in health care equity, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has developed s...
This updated chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of...
The May 2014 edition of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved highlights lingui...
Founded in 1989, the Metro Community Provider Network is a nonprofit organization in the Denver M...
After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...
Reducing health care disparities is a growing national priority and state hospital associations a...
Focusing on strategies to improve quality, address disparities and achieve equity will be essenti...
A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...
Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...
Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...
Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...
The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...
The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...
The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...
The University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center provides geriatric education ...
This case study explains Barnes-Jewish Hospital's approach to training it 4,100 team members thr...
This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...
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...
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...
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...
The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...
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...
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...
Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...
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...
Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...
The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...
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 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...
Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...
Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...
The Diversity & Inclusion Council was developed to create and sustain an organizational culture t...
The St. Francis Medical Center Kitty DeGree Breast Health Center employs a full-time breast healt...