Academic Medical Centers

Boston Medical Center First in Nation to Offer Renewable Utilities Prescription

October 19, 2023 - Boston Medical Center will be the first in the nation to offer a Clean Power Prescription, a new pilot program designed to address utilities as a social determinant of health while also considering renewable energy and climate change and how they impact health and well-being. Through the pilot program, clinicians will be able to prescribe a lower...

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Achieving Health Equity Hinges on Iteration, Continuous Learning

by Sara Heath

In what could feel like a culmination of decades of hard work, Hackensack Meridian University Medical Center’s recent Joint Commission certification for Health Care Equity is, in fact, another stop along its journey to health...

How Diversity Fuels Mount Sinai’s Award-Winning Health Equity Work

by Sara Heath

Gary Butts, MD, remembers a time when it would’ve been uncomfortable or even risky to mention race in a hospital. Now the chief diversity and inclusion officer for the Mount Sinai Health System, Butts said his organization’s...

Medical Schools Instill Diversity, Health Equity into Training Programs

by Sarai Rodriguez

Twenty-four medical schools throughout the nation will revamp their education curricula, creating programs incorporating diversity, health equity, and inclusion into training, according to a press...

How a Med School Partnered to Build Health Equity Education

by Sara Heath

Medical schools across the country are playing a long game, increasingly investing in recruiting students of color with the intent of creating a medical workforce that better reflects the nation’s diversity and, ultimately, promoting...

Medical Schools Stepping Up to Build Health Equity Curricula

by Sara Heath

As the healthcare industry faces calls to address racism in medicine, the nation’s medical schools are answering, setting forward revamped plans for diversity, equity, and inclusion and health equity curricula. That is, after all,...