Workforce Diversity
The Department of Health and Human Services March 7 announced that it is investigating four unnamed medical schools and hospitals for workforce discrimination. The department said the investigations were in response to allegations received by the HHS Office of Civil Rights that certain…
AHA podcast: The Right Kind of Research — AcademyHealth Unveils a Roadmap to Advance Research Equity
Margo Edmunds, director of the AcademyHealth Center on Diversity, Inclusion and Minority Engagement, discusses the benefits its Roadmap for Researchers guide can provide to health care research and the difference it's already making in health systems, nonprofits and beyond.
In this Safety Speaks conversation, Hackensack Meridian Health's Avonia Richardson-Miller, senior vice president and chief diversity officer, and Rajan Gurunathan, M.D., vice president, discuss their organization's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, assistance from AHA's Health Equity Roadmap…
Cultivating equity in an organization’s workforce is essential for improving health equity for the community. These key questions can help boards promote equity and inclusion for the workforce.
This toolkit presents options for residency program directors to reinforce GME recruitment more consistently with regards to diversity.
Mounting pressures on the health care workforce have created a crisis with short-term staffing shortages and a long-range picture of an unfulfilled talent pipeline, and significant projected shortages of physicians and allied health and behavioral health care providers will likely be felt even more…
Former AHA Board Chair John Bluford describes how the Bluford Healthcare Leadership Institute, which introduces talented minority undergraduate scholars to health care administration, is training young and diverse talent to assume leadership roles.
Former AHA board member Roxie Wells, M.D., senior vice president, chief physician executive and strategy officer with Novant Health Coastal Region, discusses her long journey to the health care C-suite and the importance of mentoring young women leaders through the glass ceiling and beyond.
In anticipation of the first Health Workforce Well-Being Day March 18, the National Academy of Medicine this week held an event to share success stories and resources to inspire action.
The ongoing struggle for Northern Light Health is recruiting and retaining providers willing to live and work in Maine’s most remote regions.