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Reducing Healthcare Disparities, Financial Management, Leadership
The Economic Impact of Health Disparities: Why It Matters for Hospitals and Health Systems
Disparities in health outcomes are associated with approximately $320 billion in annual healthcare spending, a figure projected to reach $1 trillion annually by 2040 if current trends continue.
Reducing Healthcare Disparities
Blog: Time to Act: National Minority Health Month Can be a Launchpad to Closing the ‘Knowing-Doing’ Gap
National Minority Health Month can be a launchpad to closing the ‘knowing-doing’ gap.
Reducing Healthcare Disparities
Accelerating Health Equity: Moving from Conversation to Action
Now is the time to evaluate how far we have come in closing gaps in health disparities, assess where health care is on the equity journey and take what we’ve learned to strengthen our organizations and communities through collaborative and innovative work — by investing in our neighborhoods and one another.
Leadership, Reducing Healthcare Disparities
Community Partnership Strategies for Accelerating Health Equity
Who exactly is a “stakeholder” when it comes to improving health equity?
Inclusion, Workforce Diversity, Reducing Healthcare Disparities
Blog Post: Looking Ahead: Honoring the Significance of Juneteenth
A history-making event that changed the lives of Black Americans more than 150 years ago is now being recognized as a federal holiday. With the stroke of a pen, President Biden signed a bill establishing June 19 as Juneteenth National Independence Day – commemorating the end of slavery in the U.S..
Workforce Diversity, Inclusion, Board Composition and Selection, Reducing Healthcare Disparities
Strategy for Success: Improving Diversity and Inclusion at the Board Level
Hospitals and health system leaders are committing to increasing diversity and inclusion in the board room.
Workforce Diversity, Inclusion, Reducing Healthcare Disparities
Sharing Successful Innovations and Lessons Learned to Advance Health Equity
What does it take to become an everyday champion for advancing health equity? How do hospitals and health systems successfully transition from planning to taking action and creating real cultural change?
Workforce Diversity, Inclusion, Reducing Healthcare Disparities
New AHA Toolkit Series to Advance Health Equity for All
AHA launches the first in a new series of toolkits designed to help hospitals and health systems make progress in advancing their health equity agenda.
Workforce Diversity, Governance and Leadership Diversity, Reducing Healthcare Disparities
How strategic alliances strengthen health equity, diversity and inclusion advancement
Nearly 55 years ago, during the 1966 Medical Committee of Human Rights Convention, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. declared, “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.” Although there has been incremental progress toward achieving a more just health care system, Dr. King’s words still ring true today.
Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19), COVID-19: Vaccines and Therapeutics, Reducing Healthcare Disparities
Building Confidence Around COVID-19 Vaccines and Expanding Health Equity for All
With our nation’s COVID-19 vaccine administration rollout underway, policy influencers and advocacy groups are focusing on communities of color that have been disproportionately impacted by the fluctuating pandemic.