Children's hospitals and other pediatric healthcare providers are working to identify and dismantle discriminatory care practices that fuel racial health disparities, according to a May 9 article from The Commonwealth Fund.
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Victoria Gore, a Coach at Holistic Recovery Services, joins the podcast to discuss what barriers to care she sees, patients' comfortability with their doctors, and nontraditional patient treatment plans.
In advance of launching its Health Care Equity Certification on July 1, The Joint Commission rolled out an online resource center to assist healthcare systems in earning the certification.
In this episode, we are joined by Samantha Olds Frey, CEO at Illinois Association of Medicaid Health Plans, to discuss her background, what she's seeing with Medicaid redeterminations and what health plans need to know, the big healthcare trends she's…
This episode features Dr. Michelle Blakely, President at Advocate South Suburban Hospital and Advocate Trinity Hospital & President at Aurora Medical Center Grafton - Advocate Aurora Health. Here, she discusses her focus on addressing health disparities, how she is looking…
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Restrictive instructions for EEGs could discourage people with thick, curly or textured hair from undergoing the diagnostic test, KFF Health News reported April 27.
More than one in five U.S. adults missed or skipped needed medical care in 2022 because they could not access a vehicle or public transportation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found in a new analysis.
This live episode from the Becker’s Hospital Review 13th Annual Meeting in Chicago features Johanna Vidal-Phelan, Chief Medical Officer- Quality and Pediatrics at UPMC Health Plan. Here, she discusses her career journey, health equity, what issues she is currently focused…
Life expectancy is higher among Black people living in areas of the U.S. that have a higher proportion of Black primary care physicians, a study published April 14 in JAMA Network Open found.
Rani Morrison Williams is the Chief Diversity and Community Health Equity Officer at UI Health, an academic medical center in Chicago. Dianne Aroh is the Senior Vice President, Chief Nursing Officer for Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, a division of Common…