Reducing Healthcare Disparities
This interactive conversation will feature Dr. Jeff Thompson speaking about the disparate health impacts of environmental issues and the role of hospitals to promote healthy environments for the communities they serve. Participants will then join breakout rooms to hear from panelists about leading…
Community investment Series, otherwise known as place-based investment, helps create the social and physical environments that support community health over the long term.
The stark differences in maternal health outcomes between Black and White women are widening at an escalating pace, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Over a two-year period, health care organizations and their community partners in four cities — Atlanta, New Orleans, Detroit and Washington, D.C. — tested and scaled locally driven initiatives to improve Black maternal health equity.
In this Members in Action podcast, Northwell Health’s Viktor Klein, M.D., system director of quality and patient safety for OB/GYN, and Adriann Combs, clinical director of OB/GYN services, share how launching the Maternal Outcomes and Morbidity Collaborative (MOMS) has increased awareness of…
In this Members in Action podcast featuring maternal and child health efforts, Aisha Syeda, program manager at the AHA is joined by leaders from Northwell Health.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention is recruiting health systems and health care providers to pilot test health equity indicators for cardiovascular health.
Hospitals and health systems are incentivized to rethink their approach to health care in a manner that drives beneficial, transformative change to the health care field and patients. By employing system stewardship, health care stakeholders from patients and employees to hospital ownership and…
The Department of Health and Human Services announced the HHS Racial Equity in Postpartum Care Challenge, a competition dedicated to upgrading postpartum care for Black and Native women enrolled in the Medicaid or CHIP programs.
The Association of University Programs in Health Administration, AHA Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, American College of Healthcare Executives, National Association of Health Services Executives, and National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives announced the Teaching Excellence…