Disparities/Equity of Care
Robyn Begley, AHA senior vice president and chief nursing officer for its American Organization for Nursing Leadership, and Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA鈥檚 The Value Initiative, participated today in a panel discussion sponsored by the National Academy of Medicine鈥檚 Committee on the Future鈥
Many hospitals and health systems are reducing costs and improving health outcomes by addressing disparities head on, write Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA鈥檚 The Value Initiative, and Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of AHA鈥檚 Institute for Diversity and Health Equity.
Three hospitals teamed up with other community groups to implement local interventions that help promote women鈥檚 health and reduce infant mortality gaps.
Potentially preventable deaths from cancer, heart disease, unintentional injury, chronic lower respiratory disease and stroke were more common in rural than urban counties between 2010 and 2017.
Kaiser Permanente Chairman and CEO Bernard Tyson, a renowned health care leader and champion for high-quality, affordable health care, died in his sleep Nov. 10. He was 60.
Opioid overdose death rates increased for nearly all racial and ethnic groups in metropolitan areas between 2015 and 2017.
The AHA鈥檚 Institute for Diversity and Health Equity encourages all hospitals to complete its 2019 Health Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Survey.
In this AHA Stat Blog, Froedtert Health Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer Andres Gonzalez, a board member at the AHA鈥檚 Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, shares the Milwaukee-based organization鈥檚 strategies for enhancing health equity, diversity and inclusion.
Improving healthy equity can provide 鈥渢remendous value鈥 to patients, communities, hospitals and the health care delivery system in the United States.
In this AHA Stat blog, Robyn Begley, AHA senior vice president and CEO of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, discusses how hiring and empowering nurses who reflect the communities they serve can improve quality and the patient experience.