HealthLeaders Media June 7, 2022
Eight healthcare organizations are participating in a year-long program called the Advancing Equity Through Quality and Safety Peer Network.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
– The new peer network is focused on “improving health equity and lowering health disparities in the structural DNA of hospital operations and health system delivery,” says American Medical Association President Gerald Harmon, MD.
– The first step for peer network participants is to conduct a self-assessment to determine how equity can be integrated into quality and safety practices.
– One of the goals of the peer network is to develop health equity leaders who are capable of designing equitable healthcare systems.
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