WHY IT’S ON THE LIST
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center has been internationally recognized for improving child health and transforming delivery of care through research, education and innovation. The hospital serves patients from 47 countries and all 50 states. President and CEO Michael Fisher personally signs off on compensation tied to diversity and meets regularly with the hospital’s nine resource groups.
The resource groups are used for talent development and also serve as ambassadors to the Greater Cincinnati community. Some of the more unique groups include Dad Connect, which celebrates the relationships between children and their fathers or father figures, and Embrace, a group for adoptive and foster families.
The hospital’s physicians are leaders in addressing health disparities. Pediatricians Andrew Beck, MD and Robert Kahn, MD recently led a study, published in the journal Pediatrics, that showed Black children are twice as likely as white children to be readmitted to the hospital for asthmaa disparity due in large part to a greater burden of financial and social hardships. The physicians are studying ways in which community-based prevention may help close this gap.
