Health Equity

When the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline was launched nationally in July 2022, many viewed it as a huge step forward in mental healthcare....Read More »

 Since launching, wait times to speak to a counselor and abandoned calls have decreased.Read More »

The focus on profits in U.S. healthcare is “damaging,” Institute for Healthcare Improvement President Emeritus and Senior Fellow Donald...Read More »

On November 28, The World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it would start referring to the monkeypox virus as “mpox,” in an attempt to...Read More »

Rural residents face unique challenges to accessing healthcare such as far-flung geography, according to Dartmouth Health.Read More »

A Florida health system is putting social determinants of health (SDOH) right into the electronic health record problem list, where doctors can...Read More »

The majority of the racist incidents involved patients and family members making inappropriate comments related to race or ethnicity. These...Read More »

Sentara Healthcare has launched a community care program to...Read More »

IHI is offering two ways for healthcare organizations to participate in its Pursuing Equity initiative.Read More »

Researchers are increasingly finding that doctors can transmit prejudice under the guise of objective descriptions.Read More »