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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
On May 7, 2017, I swore an oath to become the 118th chairman of the American Hospital Association...
Nearly 1,500 hospitals and health systems are participating in the AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge to ...
April is National Minority Health Month, dedicated to raising awareness about health disparities ...
The work of a Washington D.C. collaborative of hospitals and FQHCs is benefiting the entire commu...
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...
To address disparities in health care outcomes, Main Line Health is proactively addressing socioe...
The Chairman’s File columns provide just a glimpse of the excellent work that our nation’s hospit...
Join more than 900 hospitals and health systems and 30 state and metropolitan hospital associatio...
Overcoming language barriers with patients improves communication, a critical element of safety a...
Hospitals and health systems are focusing on cultural competence to create an environment and wor...
In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health ...
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...
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...
Working toward the Triple Aim of better care, better health and lower cost means achieving the go...
University Hospitals, Cleveland, is advancing multiple care equity initiatives. The over 2,000-be...
Building a culture that is inclusive and founded on principles of diversity was a “key destinatio...
Community members are integral partners at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania, helping ...
Diversity has become a core value at U.S. hospitals. Meridian Health, a not-for-profit health car...
“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...
Here’s the promising news: About 95 percent of hospitals and health care systems collect data on ...
National Hospital Week celebrates the men and women working in U.S. hospitals and care systems wh...
More than 20 hospitals came together with community organizations in the Cincinnati area to provi...
A new member of the health care team is helping to improve clinical outcomes and patient experien...
Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...
The path to eliminating disparities in health care has a few roadblocks: limited resources and ac...
After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...
Focusing on strategies to improve quality and achieve health care equity is a growing national pr...
Patients are becoming empowered. As health care consumers, they are reviewing publicly available ...
A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...
Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...
Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...
April is National Minority Health Month. Launched in April 2001 by the National Minority Health F...
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...
During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...
Though more work needs to be done, our nation's hospitals are making advancements in providing qu...
Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...
May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Offic...
For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...
For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...
Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...
Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...
Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...
A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...
Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...
Listening to patients and the community can spark change. The Lehigh Valley Health Network, in ea...
The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...
Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...
Extending services beyond the hospital walls to its most vulnerable patients?that is the goal of ...