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Hello ASHHRA and IFD Members: Great learning opportunities FREE of charge: You are invited to learn about transforming culture and improving performance on the ASHHRA webinar. Plus, learn about health care quality among patient populations on the next IFD webinar. We hope you can take advantage of these important learning sessions. ASHHRA Webinar Topic: Shifting to a Performance-Based Culture: A Successful Journey to Improved Performance and Accountability Date: Tuesday, June 5 Time: 10 a.m. PT, 11 a.m. MT, 12 p.m. CT, 1 p.m. ET Duration: 75 minutes Presenter: Holly Winn, Vice President of Ancillary Services and Human Resources, Black River Memorial Hospital, Black River Falls, Wis. Price: Free for ASHHRA members (Become a member of ASHHRA and you can register for FREE!) Non Members: $39.99 Hear how Black River Memorial Hospital uses talent management practices and tools to transform culture and improve performance. Through effective goal management and employee accountability, the hospital moved from an environment of vague goals and missed deadlines, to a culture based on driving performance and success. What You Will Learn:
![]() IFD Webinar Topic: Keeping it REaL: An Analysis of Health Care Quality Among Priority Patient Populations Date: Wednesday, May 30 Time: 10 a.m. PT, 11 a.m. MT, 12 p.m. CT, 1 p.m. ET Duration: 90 minutes Presenters: Juana Slade, Director of Diversity and Language Services, AnMed Health Karen Wilson, Director of Medical Resource Management, AnMed Health AnMed Health, a 578-bed acute care hospital system will discuss how it is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity and language) data collection and cultural competence to monitor progress across race, ethnicity, and/or language need, reduce costs, analyze and improve patient outcomes, and enhance health care quality. Price: Complimentary for IFD members and non-IFD members Please click here to register. Note: this is a collaborative webinar with Health Research & Trust and the Institute for Diversity Institute for Diversity National Conference, June 5-6 — for details and to register, click here.
Diversity in the hospital C-suite: Walk it like you talk it Becker's Hospital Review Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cultural and gender diversity is a laudable goal, especially for organizations' C-suites, which have traditionally lacked variety in this respect. Many health care leaders associate a diverse leadership team with improved patient satisfaction, more successful decision-making, achieved strategic goals, better clinical outcomes and stronger financial performance. Yet, despite the beneficial connections, only about 25 percent of health care leaders feel minority executives are well-represented in their organization's management, according to a recent WittKieffer survey. More Doctor shortage a health crisis The Baltimore Sun via Arizona Daily Sun Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Supreme Court's ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, expected in June, will determine the future for countless Americans. Health care reform debates have elevated the plight of millions of uninsured Americans to the national consciousness. However, the physician workforce that would be needed to care for millions of newly insured people deserves equal attention. More 10 ways to diversify your workforce Diversity Executive Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In health care, a diverse staff can provide great value in meeting the needs of patients from a wide range of cultures — a lesson that carries over to other industries. More
Diversity recruitment/retention: How to reach new talent pools with resource groups DiversityInc Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What's one frequently overlooked source for successfully recruiting of candidates from traditionally underrepresnted popualtions? Resource groups. DiversityInc asked companies that scored highest in the recruitment and retention areas on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity for their best practices—and 98 percent use their resource groups as key talent-acquisition sources. More Medical students should study patients' cultural diversity U.S.News & World Report Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As the United States grows more culturally diverse and we hear more languages spoken around us, clinical medical education has had to evolve as well. And with national population growth, particularly in big cities like New York and Los Angeles, which are popular with medical students, those students must not only know their jobs, but also need to know their hospitals. More
When it's time to hire, don't ignore the disabled Fox Business Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the workplace the concept of diversity is usually defined by race, color, religion, sex or national origin, with disability sometimes overlooked as a component of a diverse workforce. For entrepreneurs willing to open their doors to disabled employees, some private companies and government entities are working to make the process easier. More Minorities still do not feel completely comfortable in Medicine U.S.News & World Report Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When applying to medical school, applicants are asked whether they consider themselves to be disadvantaged, which usually means meeting specific criteria as defined by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Those requirements include living in underserved areas and belonging to certain groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in medical education. However, there are other minorities in medicine whose circumstances are not always reflected in AAMC statistics. More
EEOC: Texas led nation in workplace discrimination complaints in 2011 The Huffington Post Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received more complaints of workplace discrimination from workers in Texas than from any other state last year, with 10 percent of all complaints filed there. During the 2011 fiscal year, nearly 10,000 of the record 99,947 federal charges of workplace discrimination received by the EEOC were filed in Texas, according to the report. More For women in the workplace, it's still about looks not deeds MSNBC Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For women and their careers, it's often not about what they do but how they look. More proof of that came recently. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made headlines around the world not for anything she did but because she appeared without makeup on a trip to Bangladesh. More
Want a team to be creative? Make it diverse HBR.org Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Diversity is the crucial element for group creativity. Innovation teams tasked with creating new products or technologies or iterating existing ones need tension to produce breakthroughs, and tension comes from diverse points of view. This is the opposite of groupthink, the creativity-killing phenomenon of too much agreement and too similar perspectives that often paralyzes otherwise great teams. We've all been on these teams. Everyone is just like us — say, marketers or engineers. Consensus comes quickly, and only later, when we fail and wonder why, do we realize that the easy agreements and shared conclusions doomed us from the start. More How 'diversity fatigue' undermines business growth Bloomberg Businessweek Share ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A new McKinsey report shows that U.S. companies with the highest executive-board diversity had returns on equity 95 percent higher and earnings margins 58 percent higher, on average, than those with the least executive diversity. How does this kind of bottom-line analysis affect the push to increase workplace diversity? More |
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