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Summer Enrichment Program

Courses
The Institute's Summer Enrichment Program (SEP) places diverse, graduate students pursuing advanced degrees in health care administration or a related field in 10-week, paid internships within health care organizations.

IFDHE Equity of Care Participating Organizations

These national organizations will collaborate on national health care disparities improvement efforts and provide hospitals, clinicians and educators the tools needed to address the challenge.

IFDHE Online Resource Center

Resources
IFDHE welcomes you to the Online Resource Center.

Essential Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Resources

By focusing on improving health equity, hospitals can provide tremendous value to patients and the overall health care delivery system.

About the Institute

Other Resources
The Institute for Diversity and Health Equity (IFDHE) helps organizations advance health equity and expand leadership opportunities for minorities.

Meet the Grantees

A list of organizations receiving grants and resources on REaL data, SOGI data, Social Determinants of Health, cultural competency, and partnerships.

Health Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Measures for Hospitals and Health System Dashboards

Inequities in health care are widely noted, yielding poorer quality of care and reduced patient safety, and increased costs. The economic burden of racial health inequalities in the United States is estimated to be $230 billion dollars. Identifying disparities in health care and effectively intervening to mitigate the effect of these gaps is key to attainting a society of healthy communities, where all individuals reach their highest potential for health. Hospital and health systems may utilize a dashboard to provide health care leaders with the necessary information on their journey to advance health equity, diversity and inclusion. A basic level health equity, diversity and inclusion dashboard may include measures to model the American Hospital Association 123forEquity Pledge to include the following: race, ethnicity and language preference data collection, stratification and use, cultural competency training, diversity and inclusion in governance and leadership, and community partnerships.

Member Benefits

Other Resources
The Institute for Diversity and Health Equity (IFDHE) can help you plan for a more diverse future and provide tools to meet today’s challenges.

Spotlight Feature: Eye-opening Data Sparks Effort to Improve Community Health

When health care leaders at Riverside Medical Center saw Kankakee County’s latest health needs assessment data, the results weren’t good for the community located just south of Chicago.

Addressing Inequities, Multiple Barriers Impacting Health Outcomes

Helping patients control and manage their diabetes was the goal of a new program launched by UI Health’s Mile Square Health Center, near the University of Illinois at Chicago. The first step was to identify patients who should be targeted for an intervention and then provide the resources and supports needed to keep their diabetes in check while improving their overall health.