Becker's Healthcare June 8, 2023
New York City-based Mount Sinai Health System is on a mission to systematically address racism with real-time action instead of lip service. The health system’s Road Map for Action to Address Racism committee provided an update on its efforts to “root out racism” in a paper published June 5 in Academic Medicine.
“Our ultimate charge is to root out racism to better serve our diverse communities,” Gary Butts, MD, executive vice president and chief of diversity, equity and inclusion for the system, and co-author of the paper, said in a June 7 Mount Sinai news release.
“To achieve this, we will need to address structural racism across our system, a challenge for most U.S. health systems and medical schools....