Hospital Departments
Do a basic assessment of where your institution is at, and identify the steps you need to take to implement an inclusive, local sourcing initiative.
This toolkit on local and diverse purchasing showcases examples of how hospitals and health systems are reevaluating their roles as their community’s largest purchasers, understanding that a thriving local economy is fundamental to a healthy community.
Through local and inclusive hiring, health systems can invest in an ecosystem of success that lifts up local residents; helps create career pathways for low-income, minority, and hard-to-employ populations; and begins to transform neighborhoods.
The Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) Antitrust Division and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (together, the “Antitrust Agencies”) Dec. 6 and 7 will host a virtual public workshop addressing non-compete clauses in employment agreements and other forms of employee-restrictive covenants. This panel…
Capacity building with a focus on the local business community can help address supply chain gaps, meet product needs, and improve the efficiency and resiliency of the supply chain. Such initiatives can bring in additional funding and create job opportunities for local communities which experience…
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.
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.
This resource looks at how making health equity a strategic priority can aid health systems and organizations in achieving equity initiatives.
The Health Research and Educational Trust Disparities Toolkit is a Web-based tool that provides hospitals, health systems, clinics, and health plans information and resources for systematically collecting race, ethnicity, and primary language data from patients.
In this conversation, AHA’s Sue Ellen Wagner, vice president of Trustee Services, is joined by Carol Lovin, the executive vice president, chief integration officer, and system chief of staff at Atrium Health.