Reducing Healthcare Disparities
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.
The AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity encourages all hospitals to complete its 2019 Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Survey.
In this AHA Stat Blog, Froedtert Health Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer Andres Gonzalez, a board member at the AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, shares the Milwaukee-based organization’s strategies for enhancing health equity, diversity and inclusion.