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Inside-Up Strategies: Connecting Front-line Workers to Pathways for Career Advancement
12/01/2021
This toolkit focuses on ways to ensure employees are receiving access to career advancement opportunities. This ensures local hires grow in their work and there is a pathway to greater experience and support that will benefit the company and hospital as a whole through employee investment.
Outside-In Strategies: Breaking Down Barriers to Employment
12/01/2021
This resource looks at the benefits of hiring locally by creating a system of entry points for applicants that normally face barriers to this work.
Making Health Equity a Strategic Priority
12/01/2021
This resource looks at how making health equity a strategic priority can aid health systems and organizations in achieving equity initiatives.
Developing Mission, Vision and Values Statements
09/15/2021
Simply put, strategic planning determines where an organization is going over the next year or more, how it's going to get there and how it'll know if it got there or not. The focus of a strategic plan is usually on the entire organization.
Emerging Strategies to Ensure Access to Health Care Services: Addressing the Social Determinants of Health
09/13/2021
The AHA Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities examined ways in which the access to and delivery of care could be improved. During that process, the Task Force grappled with the reality that, in vulnerable communities, even if quality care is available, social determinants often prevent individuals from being able to access health care or achieve health goals.
Fall Enrichment Program (FEP)
09/06/2019
Each fall, the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity partners with various hospital and health systems across the country to provide an 18-20 week paid internship opportunity for academically strong, diverse individuals. This opportunity is aimed at students who have completed their health care oriented graduate degree within the last two years. The Fall Enrichment Program (FEP) offers an immersive on-site experience for those who want to become exceptional hospital administrators and health care leaders.
Summer Enrichment Program
05/23/2019
The Institute's Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) places diverse, graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in health care administration or a related field in 10-week, paid internships within health care organizations.
Executive Certificate in Diversity and Health Equity
05/23/2019
Diversity, inclusion, cultural humility and health equity are imperative for health care organizations, as the U.S. demographic landscape continues to change and regulatory agencies continue to implement requirements to improve safety and quality, reduce health care disparities and create more affordable care for patients. This certificate program works to train leaders who can build a more robust diversity strategy in their health care community.
Inclusive, Local Hiring: Building the Pipeline to a Healthy Community
04/25/2018
ACHI and the AHA Workforce Center hosted a webinar on how health systems can develop an inclusive, local hiring pipeline through creating more external community connections and internal career paths.
Does Your Hospital Reflect the Community It Serves?
02/08/2018
This toolkit provides checklists to assess the organization's diversity (inclusing leadership), workforce diversity, and patient care while providing action steps to move toward being a more diverse organization. The toolkit also provides case studies of various hospitals who took initatives toward becoming more diverse and their outcomes.
Eliminating Health Care Disparities: Implementing the National Call to Action Using Lessons Learned
02/01/2012
Health care equity has become an important discussion nationally as policymakers aim to improve quality of care while lowering costs through a variety of changes to existing incentives. Recognizing that there are areas for improvement is a first step, but it must be followed by actionable strategies to make sustainable improvements.