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2021

Diversity

Patient Experience Journal

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“I See What You Do”: A Patient’S View Of Equity, Nikki (Charisse) Montgomery Aug 2021

“I See What You Do”: A Patient’S View Of Equity, Nikki (Charisse) Montgomery

Patient Experience Journal

As a Black woman and a patient, the author describes what it is like navigating healthcare as a person of color in the U.S. Fully aware of the disparities that exist in healthcare, she shares her personal roadmap for assessing equity as a patient searching for a new provider. In the absence of standardized ways to assess equitable outcomes, she has created her own metrics and uses them to draw her own conclusions. From her experience as a Patient and Family Advisor, the author provides clues for assessing diversity within healthcare organizations. Imagining a new existence in healthcare, the author …


Moving From Talk To Action: A Commitment To Ensuring Equity Must Ground Our Efforts To Transform The Human Experience, Jason A. Wolf Phd Aug 2021

Moving From Talk To Action: A Commitment To Ensuring Equity Must Ground Our Efforts To Transform The Human Experience, Jason A. Wolf Phd

Patient Experience Journal

When we first introduced the call for submissions for this special issue last August, we were still churning in the first wave of the COVID pandemic. Just three to four months from the start of an unending rash of unexpected and harsh realities that we were faced with in healthcare and in society at large, we too found that the moment was revealing all the weaknesses and wounds that had existed in the foundations of the healthcare system from well before the pandemic hit. Our own research at The Beryl Institute in 2020 reinforced a quiet reality: that people do …