Each specialty needs a DEI Officer. One that analyzes data for bias & engages in strategic planning to augment practices to include a health equity lens. There needs to be accountability of such efforts w/ standardized metrics for providers & depts alike. Time to fix the broken.
We KNOW the problems. We’ve reported the same death rates & disparities for generations on end. We don’t need to hear more numbers. We need to implement solutions. Every single physician, nurse, & provider should have a report card giving outcomes along lines of race & gender.
The department should also have the same report card of their collective averages of those same metrics. Compare them nationally. Every quarter there should be a review. Identifications of strengths and weaknesses of the individual providers and flaws of the system.
If we review quarterly then we have potential to effect change QUICKLY and minimize morbidity and mortality. Tie these metrics to federal dollars. If you are treating patients differently, if some are at risk of dying simply because of their racial or gender it needs to be known
The general public has the right to know who they are turning their lives over to. Not all physicians are created equal, not all nurses, and not all hospitals. With great power comes an even greater responsibility, so we need to step up our accountability. #HealthEquity
If this is implemented providers and hospitals alike will start to take a holistic approach to patient care. Policies will start to move in these targeted communities to eradicated the negative influencers of #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth
This is only one piece of the stride towards #Equity. Each sector of society needs review and accountability along objective metrics including law enforcement, educators, housing development and commercial industries alike.
@JoeBiden, this is what the #SecretaryOfEquity reviews.
@JoeBiden, this is what the #SecretaryOfEquity reviews.
