Post Tagged with: "healthcare"

Black Women Have 41% Higher Risk of Dying of Breast Cancer

Black Women Have 41% Higher Risk of Dying of Breast Cancer

Black women are dying of breast cancer at a much more aggressive rate than white women. What can be done about it?

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Eli Lilly CEO John Lechleiter: ‘Engage People Like Never Before’

Eli Lilly CEO John Lechleiter: ‘Engage People Like Never Before’

CEO John Lechleiter, Eli Lilly and Company, discusses how diversity impacts employee engagement, innovation and business goals.

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Interview With University Hospitals CEO Tom Zenty: Diversity Leader, Innovator, Community Citizen

Interview With University Hospitals CEO Tom Zenty: Diversity Leader, Innovator, Community Citizen

University Hospitals CEO Thomas F. Zenty III discusses the dramatic impact of the Affordable Care Act and how his hospital’s diversity efforts in the workplace and the community are helping it survive.

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Improving Healthcare for 68,000 Black & Latino Children

Improving Healthcare for 68,000 Black & Latino Children

A $12.8-million grant is helping University Hospitals reduce racial disparities and offer 24/7 access to healthcare.

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What Disease Hits Black Men Most?

What Disease Hits Black Men Most?

A new study by the Kaiser Family Foundation documents which illnesses and health factors are affecting Black men more than other groups.

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Managers’ Racist Bullying Ends in Hospital Paying $1M Lawsuit

Managers’ Racist Bullying Ends in Hospital Paying $1M Lawsuit

A court rules in favor of 70 Filipino caregivers who were ruthlessly harassed for not “speaking English.” Watch the video.

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Hospitals, Insurance Companies, Pharmas: Who Benefits From the Affordable Care Act?

Hospitals, Insurance Companies, Pharmas: Who Benefits From the Affordable Care Act?

Healthcare reform is forcing many organizations to rethink their business strategy—but those committed to diversity management have a marketplace advantage.

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Deloitte Announces Tax Equalization Benefits for Domestic Partners

Organization reinforces commitment to inclusive culture; will adjust salaries to cover taxes on healthcare benefits for all registered domestic partners

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Eliminating Healthcare Disparities: How Kaiser Permanente & Trinity Health Close Racial Gaps

Eliminating Healthcare Disparities: How Kaiser Permanente & Trinity Health Close Racial Gaps

These companies are working to bring meaningful and effective care to at-risk populations that face barriers in income, language or culture.

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CVS/pharmacy’s “Project Health” Will Deliver More Than $21 Million Worth of Preventive Health Screening Events Across the U.S. in 2012

Wellness program aims to help African American and Hispanic consumers on their path to better health with more than 1,000 free health screening events

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Tour for Diversity in Medicine, Aetna Foundation Launch Bus Tour to Attract Minority Students to Medicine

Doctors, dentists to visit five historically black colleges to advise, mentor future health care providers

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Corporate Diversity: Our Analysis of the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index

Corporate Diversity: Our Analysis of the HRC’s Corporate Equality Index

Our analysis of how the HRC’s more stringent Corporate Equality Index relates to the DiversityInc Top 50 and how it can affect your ranking.

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Diversity & Inclusion Puts Kaiser Permanente on Top With Employees, Customers

Diversity & Inclusion Puts Kaiser Permanente on Top With Employees, Customers

What diversity and inclusion strategies helped this company rise to the DiversityInc Top 50?

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Delivering Culturally Competent Healthcare (VIDEO)

Delivering Culturally Competent Healthcare (VIDEO)

WellPoint’s Chief Diversity Officer Linda Jimenez tells how healthcare can resonate with all patients, from the language used in marketing materials to the photos displayed on hospital walls.

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How to Connect Engagement With Innovation (VIDEO)

How to Connect Engagement With Innovation (VIDEO)

How does working to eliminate healthcare disparities help to engage employees? At a DiversityInc roundtable, Kaiser Permanente’s James Taylor, senior director, diversity strategy execution and workplace inclusion, discusses how, even early in its history, the company strengthened business through diversity efforts, from leaders to the patients they serve.

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