Health Equity

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.

Many factors impact our health beyond genetics and aging.  Collectively, these are called the social determinants of health, and factors such as: education, housing, income, occupation, hunger, language, literacy, where we live, and access to affordable health care services. However, there…

The University of California Los Angeles has launched the Latino Policy and Politics Institute Latino Data Hub to improve healthcare outcomes for the Latino population in California.

More than 12,000 deaths could have been avoided if racial disparities in medicine and surgery had been addressed at the root, according to new research from the American Society of Anesthesiologists.