The Need for Health Care Diversity

The Need for Health Care Diversity « AHLAlerts: American Health Line’s Blog: The Equity of Care initiative is a newly formed coalition of the American Hospital Association, National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, the Association of American Medical Colleges, American College of Healthcare Executives and the Catholic Health Association of the United States. It strives to grow diversity in health care leadership; increase cultural competency training in medical schools, hospitals and other health care institutions; and encourage more data collection on patients’ race, ethnicity and language to better identify where disparities exist.