5184.0 Ethnic & Racial Disparities: Hospital System Level Solutions

Wednesday, November 7, 2007: 2:30 PM
Oral
Presider:
Keith Elder, PhD, MPH, MPA

2:30 PM
Reducing Disparities in Care Using Quality Improvement: Findings from a Multi-Hospital Collaborative
Jennifer Bretsch, MS, Bruce Siegel, MD, MPH, Marcia J. Wilson, MBA, Vickie Sears, RN, MS, CCRN, Romana Hasnain-Wynia, PhD and Karen Jones, MS
     
2:45 PM
Racial and Ethnic Minority Primary Care Providers: Improving Access and Patient-Provider Communication
Ernest Moy, MD, MPH and Sara Hogan, MPH
  
3:00 PM
Meeting the promise of racial and ethnic minorities' interest in health care careers
Cheryl C. Ulmer and Jason Patnosh
     
3:15 PM
Best practices of hospitals that serve minority and low income patients
Darrell Gaskin, PhD, Thomas A. LaVeist, PhD, Christine Spencer, ScD, Patrick Richard, MA, Gerard Anderson, PhD and Neil Powe, MD, MPH, MBA
     
3:30 PM
Race, healthcare problems, consumer complaints and consumer satisfaction with the problem resolution process in the U.S. healthcare system
Lisa C. Gary, PhD

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Medical Care
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus, Epidemiology, Caucus on Refugee and Immigrant Health, Asian Pacific Islander Caucus of APHA

CE Credits: CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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