Reducing Healthcare Disparities
Links to the National Center for Cultural Competence and South Carolina Rural Health Research Center.
Patient-related risk factors appear to be the primary driver of readmissions in hospitals serving a higher proportion of minority patients, according to a study published online yesterday by the journal Surgery. The researchers examined outcomes and patient factors in more than 168,000…
Cleveland Clinic will receive the AHA Equity of Care Award, the ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association announced today.
African-American children were more than twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to an urban children’s hospital for asthma between August 2010 and October 2011, with socioeconomic and other risk factors accounting for virtually all of the difference, according to a study published…
In a study published online this week in JAMA Pediatrics, adjusting for social determinants of health changed hospitals’ penalty status on a readmissions-based pay-for-performance measure. The study compared the performance of 43 children’s hospitals on a readmissions-based pay-for-performance…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of Minority Health today issued a guide to help hospital leaders prevent readmissions among racially and ethnically diverse Medicare beneficiaries. The guide reviews key readmissions issues and strategies for reducing readmissions, and…
This collection of case studies from the field highlights diversity initiatives at six hospitals across the country.
Call to Action to Eliminate Health Disparities
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Links to government resources for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities.