Patient Engagement April 14, 2021
Sara Heath

Nurse practitioners could play a big role in expanding community-based care access, creating more health equity in healthcare services.

It’s time for healthcare to take the next step in health equity work.

Over the course of the past year, which brought with it the coronavirus pandemic and a national reckoning on race and racism, the industry has produced countless studies confirming the existence of racial health disparities. The data has piled up indicating that communities of color carried a disproportionate COVID-19 burden compared to their White peers, while racial health disparities in transplant care, maternity care, and breast cancer care have also come to the forefront.

And most experts agree this is a dark stain on US healthcare. Racial health...

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Topics: Equity/SDOH, Healthcare System, Nursing, Patient / Consumer, Provider
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