How do healthcare’s DEI initiatives compare?
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Mayor’s Racial Equity Initiative
LED BY: Kin neil Coltman, senior vice president and chief community & social impact officer, Atrium Health, and Hillary Crittendon, head of commercial development, Atrium Health
IN CHARGE:
Eugene Woods, president and CEO, Atrium Health
WHAT IT ENTAILS:
A five-year public-private partnership commitment to the Mayor's Racial Equity Initiative, in Charlotte, North Carolina, to address inequities and remove barriers to opportunity.
Wake Forest School of Medicine leaders will collaborate with Johnson C. Smith University, a local HBCU, to build a pre-med curriculum.
Dedicated scholarship support for JCSU students from the Bishop George E. Battle Jr. Scholarship Fund to pursue careers in healthcare.
Construction and operation of two new medical clinics in underserved “corridors of opportunity” in Charlotte, as well as establishing an on-campus student health center at JCSU.
HOW MUCH IS ALLOCATED:
$22.8 million
ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET FOR
$13 billion LEAD ORGANIZATION:
Health Evolution Forum
LED BY: Dr. Carrie Byington, executive vice president at University of California Health, and Dr. Laurie Zephyrin, vice president for advancing health equity at the Commonwealth Fund, who co-chair a Health Evolution Forum work group on leveraging data to improve health equity, collaborating with leaders at about 40 healthcare organizations across sectors
WHAT IT ENTAILS:
Creating a consistent set of measures and approach to collecting, stratifying and analyzing health disparities data
Collecting REaLS (race, ethnicity, language and sex) data for at least 50% of the organization's patient, member or customer population
Stratifying and regularly reviewing collected data by the top-priority quality or access metric for 90% of major business lines and/or departments/divisions of adequate size
Participating in the Health Evolution Health Equity Learning Lab by sharing stratified data for select measures to facilitate anonymized benchmarking and to identify best practices for reducing disparities
HOW MUCH ALLOCATED:
No cost for organizations to join the Health Evolution Forum pledge group
ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET OF LEAD ORGANIZATION:
Varies across pledge members
American Rescue Plan
LED BY: Dr. Marcella NunezSmith, chair, Presidential COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force IN CHARGE: President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris
WHAT IT EN TAILS: Nearly $240 million for the Department of Health and Human Services, through the Health Resources and Services Administration, to support public health apprenticeship programs at over 500 healthcare facilities across the country in locations where high-risk populations access care and receive services.
$210 million to expand the public health workforce in tribal communities and support school nurses in the Bureau of Indian Education.
$150 million to increase the public health workforce with disability and aging expertise.
More than $140 million to support community-based organizations that educate individuals, provide resources and address barriers to getting vaccinated in underserved communities.
$35 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to recruit diverse public health workforce among underrepresented groups. HOW MUCH ALLOCATED :$785 million (total for the community health initiatives).
ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET OF LEAD
ORGANIZATION :$1.9 trillion( total for the full American Rescue Plan approved by Congress earlier this year)