Reducing Healthcare Disparities
The AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois today announced a joint collaboration and one-year grant program to support hospitals in eliminating health care disparities and working toward ensuring individuals in every community receive safe,…
Hospitals and health systems are working every day to improve the patient experience and eliminate health disparities. But this work cannot be done in silos. Achieving health equity requires contributions from all of us – providers, payers, community-based organizations, public health advocates,…
Hospitals and health systems are improving health outcomes by tackling disparities in their communities, write Priya Bathija, a vice president at AHA, and Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity.
Hospitals and health systems can use data and metrics to guide their strategies on social needs and social determinants, writes Priya Bathija, a vice president at AHA.
Robyn Begley, AHA senior vice president and chief nursing officer for its American Organization for Nursing Leadership, and Priya Bathija, a vice president at the AHA, participated today in a panel discussion sponsored by the National Academy of Medicine’s Committee on the Future of Nursing 2020-…
Many hospitals and health systems are reducing costs and improving health outcomes by addressing disparities head on, write Priya Bathija, a vice president at AHA, and Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity.
Three hospitals teamed up with other community groups to implement local interventions that help promote women’s health and reduce infant mortality gaps.
Potentially preventable deaths from cancer, heart disease, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease and stroke were more common in rural than urban counties between 2010 and 2017.
Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Bernard Tyson, a renowned health care leader and champion for high-quality, affordable health care, died in his sleep Nov. 10. He was 60.
Opioid overdose death rates increased for nearly all racial and ethnic groups in metropolitan areas between 2015 and 2017.