This is part two of our interview with Jeffrey Boord, MD, MPH, chief quality and safety officer at Parkview Health in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Along with two other doctors, he spoke at the 2024 Institute for Healthcare Improvement Forum on ways to improve diabetes care models.
Achieving health equity requires active participation by healthcare leaders, and a major step forward is appointing a health equity officer (HEO) to keep your organization on track. This person is responsible for stewarding the crucial work of improving equity and health equity to ensure every...
As of July 1, clinics in rural and underserved communities can now apply for The Joint Commission’s (TJC) new Rural Health Clinic (RHC) Accreditation Program. IAQ spoke with Kurt Patton, MS, RPH, founder of Patton Healthcare Consulting and a former director of accreditation services for TJC,...
If you’ll forgive me for going a little off topic here (yet again), there’s another resource in the world that I think is worth bringing to your attention. And while I will admit that this one is a little personal (I have two nephews who served in the Marine Corps; both of whom experienced...
The history of SDOH reaches back to 1967, when the Whitehall study examined more than 17,500 male civil servants between the ages of 20 and 64 in London, England, analyzing data over a period of 10 years. Data was gathered on physical health and habits, including blood pressure, height, weight,...
Compared to white patients, Black patients are 42% more likely to die following high-risk surgery and Hispanic patients are 21% more likely to die. Overall, about 8,364 Black and 4,338 Hispanic excess postsurgical deaths occurred between 2000-2020. To eliminate the disparity in mortality by 2030...
The idea of tackling climate change can seem immense, particularly for an already overworked healthcare staff, but breaking down sources of healthcare greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and setting reasonable goals for each makes it possible.
The American healthcare sector produces an estimated 8.5% of the country’s total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and accounts for 25% of global health sector emissions—the highest proportion attributable to any individual country’s...
