Health Equity

Companies with a clear, robust internal plan for diversity, equity and inclusion see higher employee engagement, according to a recent survey from Aon. 

Ascension, a 143-hospital nonprofit system based in St. Louis, has created a national philanthropic organization that will develop, support and promote health equity initiatives.

Achieving health equity is complicated, and it isn’t something that healthcare organizations can do entirely on their own. Instead, it requires dynamic collaboration—an ecosystem in which payers, providers, community organizations, policy and advocacy groups, and other entities work together to…

New York City-based Mount Sinai is launching a study of 15 million ambulatory patient cases to determine how segregation of healthcare affects patient outcomes. 

Experts and advocates warn that a lack of long-term planning, coupled with a flawed social safety net, could create a crisis where people with disabilities are no longer able to live independently, Kaiser Health News reported Nov. 11. 

Continuing the development of equity scores, including refining the Health Equity Summary Score, is just one of the ways CMS aims to improve data and thereby advance a fairer health system, a new report from the organization's Office of Minority…

Black and Hispanic patients receive shorter addiction medication treatment than white patients, according to a study published Nov. 9 in JAMA Psychiatryry.

New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals and Houston-based Texas Children's Pavilion for Women were the 2022 recipients of the Bernard J. Tyson National Award for Excellence in Pursuit of Healthcare Equity from The Joint Commission and Kaiser Permanente.

A hotel in Escondido, Calif., has been transformed into a post-hospitalization facility for the homeless, The Coast News reported Nov. 3. 

New Haven, Conn.-based Yale researchers found inequities in the physician-scientist workforce begin during training.