PLEDGE TO ACT Take the #123forEquity Pledge to Eliminate Health Care Disparities! The vision of the American Hospital Association (AHA) is a society of healthy communities, where all individuals reach their highest potential for health, and eliminating health care disparities is essential to achieving that vision. As a partner in the National Call to Action […]
In Demand Interpreting will offer a webinar on the topic of New Trends Affecting Health Equity with speakers David Hunt of Critical Measures and Andrew Drake of In Demand Interpreting. Click here to register. This program will highlight three new national trends designed to support equity of care through language access; suggest what actions providers can take […]
INDIANAPOLIS—November 20, 2014—WellPoint, Inc., (NYSE: WLP) one of the nation’s largest health benefits companies, today announced it has worked with Critical Measures, a national firm supporting cross-cultural health care, to offer an educational resource for physicians on the importance of a concerted approach to worldwide disease. Recent events stemming from the Ebola virus have highlighted […]
In the past, human bias was regarded as conscious and intentional. Today, the new science of bias suggests that human biases are largely unconscious and unintentional. If true, this new research suggests that our biases are infinitely more dangerous than we ever imagined them to be – operating like computer biases to get beyond our […]
A Spanish-speaking male patient entered the emergency department at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., in December 2012 suffering from vomiting, abdominal pain and shortness of breath. Over two days in the hospital, he had blood drawn, underwent an abdominal CT scan, received IV fluids and had a urinary catheter inserted. But it’s possible […]