Health Equity
Leadership
Health Evolution Virtual Summit 2021: The benefits of participating
The in-person Summit is sold out, but virtual registrants can access all Main Stage programming featuring more than 30 CEOs leading large health systems, health plans and life sciences organizations. There are also networking opportunities with other Summit participants.
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Innovations in Care
Can health care executives solve the homeless problem? An interview with SCAN CEO Sachin Jain
Jain discusses why homelessness is actually a health care crisis, SCAN Group’s efforts to address the problem with Medicare Advantage and prospective payment models, the eureka moment that led to building a medical practice for homeless seniors, and more.
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Health Equity
Placing a value on diversity to advance health equity
In this Confab Leaderships series installment, executives discuss the new mindset required to advance health equity to emerge from the pandemic with a more resilient health care system.
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Leadership
Top 10 articles of 2021 – so far
From difficult conversations about racism and the experience of trauma to digital health funding to alternative and disruptive payment models, the first half of this year saw critical developments in executives thinking, practices and strategies.
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Health Equity
Sutter Health executives outline ambitious goals for Institute for Advancing Health Equity
After many years of health equity work, Sutter Health has formalized its efforts with the creation of the Institute for Advancing Health Equity. Sutter executives spoke with Health Evolution about advancing the science of health equity to generate knowledge that will make communities healthier across the nation.
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Health Equity
A Bon Secours housing project in Baltimore shows community health at work
The community health housing project is thriving in West Baltimore, even after the health system sold the local hospital to another organization. In this Q&A, George Kleb of Bon Secours explains why health systems should be making these kinds of investments.
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Health Equity
How health care organizations can work to improve LGBTQ+ care
Health care organizations need to do a better job in creating a welcoming, inclusive environment for LGBTQ+ patients. Experts say they can do so through employee education, improving sexual orientation and gender identity data collection and getting buy in across the C-Suite.
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Health System Resilience
Why data needs to drive the transition to value-based care
Executives who ‘own’ and leverage data can better understand cost centers, engage providers, drive patients to high-value care and address systemic inequities.
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Health Equity
Zing Health CEO Eric Whitaker on Medicare Advantage’s potential in reducing disparities
Whitaker, who spent four years as the Director of the Illinois Department of Health, says that Medicare Advantage addresses the social determinants of health in ways that traditional Medicare plans do not.
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Health Equity
CityMD founder Richard Park on improving care for Asian Americans in NYC
With his latest venture, Rendr, the entrepreneur is working to apply the same self-advocacy, scalability and standardization concepts that worked well to improve care for Asian American populations.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Innovation Guide
The first report in a three-part series on COVID-19 innovation lessons learned by Providence, the pandemic's original ground zero in the U.S. Read the report.
