Diversity in Healthcare

In this section, readers can find articles on top healthcare leaders, getting women and people from traditionally underrepresented groups into STEM fields, legal information, how to achieve culturally competent patient care, how to help close the healthcare-disparities gap, and more.

• What Makes Kaiser Permanente Score With Employees, Customers?
  

  The president and COO of Kaiser Permanente reveals the best practices that helped it climb to the top of The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list.Read More

• Video of 2011 DiversityInc Special Awards: Kaiser Permanente
  

  Kaiser Permanente's Chuck Columbus, chief human resources executive and senior vice president, accepts the 2011 Special Award for Top Company for Executive Development.Read More

• Diversity Drives Cleveland’s Economic Recovery
  

  Find out how a collaborative network of committed leaders is fueling this Northeast Ohio region's turnaround.Read More

• WellPoint’s Chief Procurement Officer Anthony Santiago: Setting the Bar High
  

  Anthony Santiago, who joined WellPoint in 2008 as vice president and chief procurement officer, has big plans for the company's supplier diversity.Read More

• Identifying Racial/Ethnic Healthcare Disparities: Aetna’s Dr. Wayne Rawlins
  

  Throughout his 30-year career, Dr. Wayne Rawlins studied the impact of racial/ethnic disparities on patient populations. That's why, as Aetna's recently appointed national medical director, he looks forward to identifying areas where disparities exist among Black, Latino, Asian and other Aetna members.Read More

• CEO Conversation: Luke Visconti & Sodexo’s George Chavel
  

  Sodexo, No. 1 on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity® list, has been a leader in implementing, measuring and assessing diversity initiatives. At our learning event in Washington, D.C., Sodexo's CEO and President George Chavel talked to DiversityInc CEO Luke Visconti about his deep, personal commitment to diversity.Read More

• Roadmap for Hospitals: Culturally Competent Patient Care
  

  The Joint Commission, an independent nonprofit organization that evaluates and accredits hospitals, has announced new standards designed to improve access to healthcare that is both respectful of and responsive to an increasingly diverse patient population. Read More

• Where Are Today’s STEM Students?
  

  Look no further than Rutgers University, where one professor has dedicated his life to helping Black, Latino and other traditionally underrepresented undergrads pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and math.Read More

• How to Connect Engagement With Innovation (VIDEO)
  

  How does working to eliminate healthcare disparities help to engage employees? At a DiversityInc roundtable, Kaiser Permanente's James Taylor, senior director, diversity strategy execution and workplace inclusion, discusses how, even early in its history, the company strengthened business through diversity efforts, from leaders to the patients they serve. Read More

• Can Culturally Competent Healthcare Close Disparities Gaps?
  

  Can white doctors provide quality care to communities in which the racial/ethnic demographics are shifting dramatically? One DiversityInc reader addresses this question in her passionate response to our article, "Is There a Black, Latino Doctor in the House?" about Rutgers University's ODASIS program. See what she had to say about cultural competency and diversity in healthcare.Read More