Disparities/Equity of Care
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.
AHA President and CEO Rick Pollack today addressed the National Association of Health Services Executives at its annual educational conference in Washington, D.C., where he stressed the importance of advancing health equity in America.
AHA鈥檚 Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, and Priya Bathija, vice president of The Value Initiative, today addressed the 2019 Management Institute at Ohio State University鈥檚 Division of Health Services Management and Policy.
Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of the AHA鈥檚 Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, and Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA鈥檚 The Value Initiative, discuss how health equity is a moral issue that affects the length and quality of people鈥檚 lives.
The AHA this week sponsored two sessions at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation鈥檚 2019 Annual Legislative Conference.