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Speaking at a virtual forum hosted Tuesday by the Universal Healthcare Foundation, Dr. Bram Wispelwey, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith and Universal’s President Frances G. Padilla cited the importance of implementing race-conscious interventions to address structural racism in healthcare.
”We anticipate that in the next decade our work will really be…embedded in that journey to build grassroots power for equity and justice in healthcare,” said Padilla, who moderated the panel. “And we know that racism is the through line. So, what I want to start with is asking why race-conscious approaches are needed to address structural racism in healthcare.”
Universal Healthcare Foundation Forum Explores Racism In Healthcare & Race-Conscious Interventions
Speaking at a virtual forum hosted Tuesday by the Universal Healthcare Foundation, Dr. Bram Wispelwey, Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith and Universal’s President Frances G. Padilla cited the importance of implementing race-conscious interventions to address structural racism in healthcare.
”We anticipate that in the next decade our work will really be…embedded in that journey to build grassroots power for equity and justice in healthcare,” said Padilla, who moderated the panel. “And we know that racism is the through line. So, what I want to start with is asking why race-conscious approaches are needed to address structural racism in healthcare.”
Resolving health disparities in New York starts with data
Michelle Morse knew she didn’t want to make just another declaration linking racism and health disparities. Morse, who became the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s first chief medical officer in February 2021, had seen governments, health agencies, and elected officials around the country make pronouncement after pronouncement, spurred by the stark disparities in the …
HEALING ARC FRAMEWORK APPLIED TO NYC ANALYSIS OF RACISM IN CLINICAL ALGORITHMS IMPACTING PATIENT CARE AND TREATMENT
HEALING ARC FRAMEWORK APPLIED TO NYC ANALYSIS OF RACISM IN CLINICAL ALGORITHMS IMPACTING PATIENT CARE AND TREATMENT
BOSTON – The New York City Health Department is building in the Healing ARC framework to help shape initiatives that confront explicit and implicit racism in medicine and improve equity in patient care. The Healing ARC (Acknowledgment, Redress, and Closure), which encourages race-conscious interventions, was developed to eliminate an inequity in patient care delivery for heart failure at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston.
HEALTH EQUITY ADVOCATES LAUNCH CAMPAIGN IN MASSACHUSETTS TO ELIMINATE RACISM IN PATIENT CARE WITH AN INNOVATIVE, RACE-CONSCIOUS APPROACH
The Healing ARC Framework Can Revolutionize Care in Hospitals, Health Facilities
BOSTON – A prominent group of health professionals, community leaders, and healthcare equity advocates today launched a campaign to raise awareness of successful race-conscious approaches to healthcare delivery in Massachusetts that target institutional racism and can bring transformational change to health care systems.
The campaign will educate hospital administrators, lawmakers, social justice advocates, communities, and more about the value of race-conscious interventions, such as those implemented under the Healing ARC framework. The Healing ARC is a collaborative approach that helps rectify patient care inequities, while countering the notion that race-blind solutions effectively fix systems broken by racism.
Campaign Fact Sheet
The Healing ARC framework is working to create environments where hospitals and healthcare facilities treat ALL patients with dignity, respect, and fairness. Massachusetts residents, like those across the country, are entitled to patient-centered and people-centered healthcare, which means taking steps to eliminate the institutional racism that prevents some from getting equal care.
For Media Interviews Contact Michael K. Frisby mike@frisbyassociagtes.com.
Hospital & Care Administrators Seeking Information on How to Implement Healing ARC Applications Contact: Jennifer Goldsmith jennifer.k.goldsmith@gmail.com.
The Healing ARC: Panel of Experts Explain Why Race-Conscious Approaches are Needed to Eliminate Racism in Patient Care
VIDEO: The Healing ARC: Panel of Experts Explain Why Race-Conscious Approaches are Needed to Eliminate Racism in Patient Care