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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...
Since 2007, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Psychiatry Residency program has help...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...
Leadership is needed to direct resources and programs aimed at reducing health care disparitities...
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center established the Quality Excellence Council at the beg...
Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...
The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...
AnMed Health is a non-profit health system and the largest employer in Anderson County, South Car...
In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce ...
Read about how Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare developed a minority nusing program that identifies ...
Read about the many programs that Novant Health has developed around leadership diversity includi...
Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...
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...
For nearly 20 years, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey has partnered with the...
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 growing undergraduate public health movement in the nation is exciting; yet, concerns linger ...
The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, a partner of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, ...
African immigrants and refugees represent four percent of the total population in the United Stat...
In 2013, the Connecticut Multicultural State Partnership, a non-profit health advocacy group, rec...
Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the nation's health professions workforce has many ...
In a this video, leaders from CHRISTUS Health provide an overview of the Equity of Care initiativ...
The National Center for Health Care Leadership's diversity leadership demonstration project is th...
INTEGRIS Health is the largest Oklahoma-owned health care corporation. Its facilities cover the c...
Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, comprised of ...
All practices participating in Better Health Greater Cleveland collect and submit data on patient...
The Greater Detroit Area Health Council is taking an innovative approach to reducing disparities ...
Founded in 1989, the Metro Community Provider Network is a nonprofit organization in the Denver M...
Established in 2007, Colorado Total Smiles is a nonprofit located in the Denver Metro area that p...
Womansplace Crisis Center is committed to working toward the elimination of violence against wome...
HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...
Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...
The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...
Disparities in care were noted for diabetes, cardio vascular disease and cancer screeening for Hm...
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...
To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...
Although it is accepted that cultural competency training is a vital part of reducing health disp...
A collaborative effort among Harborview Medical Center, two massage schools, the Southeast Seattl...
The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...
Health plans and provider communities share a need for quality information that promotes cultural...
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...
Stanford Geriatric Education Center's geriatric training programs for health professionals are o...
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...
The Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments program seeks to enable raising com...
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...
Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...
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...
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...
The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...
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...
Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...
Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...
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...
Baylor Health Care SystemDallas, TX3,653 Beds The Problem The Baylor Health Care System Office o...
Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...
University HospitalsCleveland, OH1,032 Beds The Problem To address the changing demographics of ...