Health Equity

This live episode from the Becker’s Hospital Review 13th Annual Meeting in Chicago features Avonia Richardson-Miller, Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at Hackensack Meridian Health. Here, she discusses her focus on impacting health equity, how data can help…

This episode features Cheryl Lulias, President & CEO at Medical Home Network. Here, she discusses the work she does with Medical Home Network to improve care in underserved communities, how her organization is coordinating with local paramedics, the importance of…

Nurses tend to have more implicit bias toward transgender patients than non-nurse healthcare workers, according to a survey of more than 34,000 employees in the sector.

The vast majority of California hospitals have not fully complied with a California law that requires implicit bias training for all perinatal care providers, according to an October report from the state's Justice Department. 

The partnership highlights TruLite’s innovative approach to remediating clinical bias and improve diverse patient outcomes

UChicago Medicine's push to improve postpartum care has landed it an award for health equity advancement from The Joint Commission and Kaiser Permanente. 

Black pediatric patients are twice as likely to die from sepsis than white children, according to research from the Arkansas Children's Hospital.

Patients may be more willing to participate in clinical studies when the research staff is of the same race or ethnicity, according to new findings from researchers at Boston Medical Center. 

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente is ramping up efforts to provide free legal aid for patients facing eviction or other legal-related housing challenges, the health system said Oct. 19.

Boston Medical Center is the first hospital in the nation to give patients a discount on their energy pills, thanks to their new Clean Power Prescription program, WBUR reported Oct. 18.