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

April 12th, 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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Hospitals and health systems are focusing on cultural competence to create an environment and wor...

November 2nd, 2015
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The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

October 6th, 2015
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The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

July 1st, 2015
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Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

December 15th, 2014
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This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...

December 4th, 2014
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Based in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, Lehigh Valley Health Netwo...

December 1st, 2014
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For nearly 20 years, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey has partnered with the...

December 1st, 2014
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Community members are integral partners at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania, helping ...

November 17th, 2014
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California's Central Valley is known for its abundant fruits and vegetables; however, many famili...

November 1st, 2014
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The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, a partner of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, ...

November 1st, 2014
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African immigrants and refugees represent four percent of the total population in the United Stat...

November 1st, 2014
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In 2013, the Connecticut Multicultural State Partnership, a non-profit health advocacy group, rec...

November 1st, 2014
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INTEGRIS Health is the largest Oklahoma-owned health care corporation. Its facilities cover the c...

October 1st, 2014
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This infographic provides a sample of the findings from the 2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Ben...

September 25th, 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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Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, comprised of ...

August 1st, 2014
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This updated chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of...

June 17th, 2014
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The Greater Detroit Area Health Council is taking an innovative approach to reducing disparities ...

June 1st, 2014
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Womansplace Crisis Center is committed to working toward the elimination of violence against wome...

December 1st, 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

Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

May 16th, 2013
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Providing culturally competent care to patients requires a focus on more than just race, ethnicit...

April 25th, 2013
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n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...

March 12th, 2013
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Although, increasing diversity in the health care workforce and training health care providers to...

March 12th, 2013
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Although it is accepted that cultural competency training is a vital part of reducing health disp...

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

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

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The University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center  provides geriatric education ...

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Health plans and provider communities share a need for quality information that promotes cultural...

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

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 Stanford Geriatric Education Center's geriatric training programs for health professionals are o...

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

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

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

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

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This case study explains Barnes-Jewish Hospital's approach to training it  4,100 team members thr...

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

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

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The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...

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

March 12th, 2013
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In a society as culturally diverse as the United States, especially in New York City,  members of...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

March 12th, 2013
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African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

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The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...

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The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...

March 12th, 2013
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The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

March 12th, 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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Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

July 19th, 2012
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Among the agencies that have made a substantial effort toward competency is the Nursing Home Ombu...

June 1st, 2012
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This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

May 3rd, 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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This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...

February 6th, 2012
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Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...

January 1st, 2012
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The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

December 1st, 2011
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A video on how to care for blind or sight-impaired individuals in a hospital

October 1st, 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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The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...

August 1st, 2011
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Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

July 27th, 2011
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The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...

May 2nd, 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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Mercy Health Partners  and Saint Mary's Health Care will be participating in the Improving Langua...

January 25th, 2009
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