Health Equity

HHS announced an update to the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care, a guide for healthcare organizations to provide high-quality, equitable and culturally sensitive healthcare.

More woman than men, between the ages of 19 and 25 years, had a usual place where they received healthcare, had been to a physician or had been to the emergency room in 2011, according to a National Center for…

Pardee Hospital in Hendersonville, N.C., and Asheville, N.C.-based Mission Health announced a collaboration with YMCA of Western North Carolina to improve community health.

St. Vincent Medical Center in Los Angeles announced the opening of the Korean Pavilion, a 30-bed unit designed to meet the needs of a fast-growing population segment in the community.

Oak Brook, Ill.-based Advocate Health Care has announced it has trained 1,000 adults as part of its Stewards of Children program, an outreach initiative of the system's Childhood Trauma Treatment Program.

In January 2012, Sanford Health, based in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Fargo, N.D., established its first primary care clinic in Ghana through its program Sanford World Clinic. Under this initiative, Sanford is establishing pediatric and family care clinics in areas…

Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, Conn., announced it has received a $200,000, two-year grant from the Connecticut Health Foundation to support a fellowship position at its Center for Health Equity.

Sanford Health, based in Fargo, N.D., and Sioux Falls, S.D., is hiring two Native American healers in an effort to improve care for its American Indian patients, according to a Jamestown Sun report.

A new study released on pediatric emergency medicine looked at the correlation between ethnicities and pain scores for bone fractures, according to Equities.

As required by the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009, CMS released its annual report on the quality of healthcare and coverage for the 43.5 million children enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP programs in fiscal year 2011.