On May 7, 2017, I swore an oath to become the 118th chairman of the American Hospital Association...

May 8th, 2017
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Nearly 1,500 hospitals and health systems are participating in the AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge to ...

April 19th, 2017
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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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To address disparities in health care outcomes, Main Line Health is proactively addressing socioe...

January 11th, 2016

The Chairman’s File columns provide just a glimpse of the excellent work that our nation’s hospit...

December 21st, 2015

Join more than 900 hospitals and health systems and 30 state and metropolitan hospital associatio...

November 30th, 2015
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Overcoming language barriers with patients improves communication, a critical element of safety a...

November 9th, 2015
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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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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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Community members are integral partners at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania, helping ...

November 17th, 2014
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Diversity has become a core value at U.S. hospitals. Meridian Health, a not-for-profit health car...

October 27th, 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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Here’s the promising news: About 95 percent of hospitals and health care systems collect data on ...

June 23rd, 2014
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National Hospital Week celebrates the men and women working in U.S. hospitals and care systems wh...

May 12th, 2014

More than 20 hospitals came together with community organizations in the Cincinnati area to provi...

April 21st, 2014
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A new member of the health care team is helping to improve clinical outcomes and patient experien...

February 10th, 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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Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...

July 8th, 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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Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

January 14th, 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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Though more work needs to be done, our nation's hospitals are making advancements in providing qu...

July 23rd, 2012
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Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

June 11th, 2012
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May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Offic...

May 14th, 2012
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For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

April 16th, 2012
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For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...

April 9th, 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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Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...

December 12th, 2011
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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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Listening to patients and the community can spark change. The Lehigh Valley Health Network, in ea...

May 23rd, 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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Extending services beyond the hospital walls to its most vulnerable patients?that is the goal of ...

February 1st, 2010
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