Hospitals have unique roles in racial healing, public health leader says | AHA News


During her keynote address at the Association for Community Health Improvement’s 2019 conference, Dayna Bowen Matthew, a public health leader, author and University of Virginia School of Law faculty member, called on attendees to continue to address the social determinants of health in their communities and to resolve any implicit biases that might affect their caregiving.
Hospitals are “hubs for racial healing” with unique roles in moving the needle toward health equity, she said.
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