Disparities/Equity of Care
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’s 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’s Division of Health Services Management and Policy.
Duane Reynolds, president and CEO of the AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, and Priya Bathija, vice president of AHA’s The Value Initiative, discuss how health equity is a moral issue that affects the length and quality of people’s lives.
The AHA this week sponsored two sessions at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s 2019 Annual Legislative Conference.
On behalf of our nearly 5,000 member hospitals, health systems and other health care organizations, our clinician partners – including more than 270,000 affiliated physicians, 2 million nurses and other caregivers – and the 43,000 health care leaders who belong to our professional membership groups…
The AHA invites hospitals and health systems to participate in the Better Maternal Outcomes Rapid Improvement Network — a free, six-month program focused on maternal outcomes and respectful care.
Black, American Indian and Alaska Native women are two to three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women, and this disparity increases with age, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers reported today.
Often quietly and out of the public eye, the vital work of advancing health in America happens on many fronts.
Named the 2019 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award winner, Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., continues to make its hospital an open and diverse environment for staff, patients and the community.
Hospital and health system leaders can measure their inclusion efforts against the Healthcare Equality Index, a national benchmarking tool.