Diversity and Inclusion Webinars

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This webinar reviews priorities and expectations set forth by CMS to implement DEI practices in every aspect of the health care team. An interactive panel of health care professionals will highlight opportunities to address DEI in nurse onboarding and ongoing professional development, including best practices from one health system actively incorporating DEI. (Webinar presented June 28, 2023)
This webinar provides an exclusive look into how the components of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) can operate within an organization and create an environment of openness, support and fairness. Attend this relevant and insightful webinar to hear how to create and bolster DEI goals.
Discuss how to address diversity, equity, and inclusion in your organization’s strategy and communications plans.
[WEBINAR] Health care is a team sport. Interdisciplinary teams excel when we respect and remain focused on the shared vision, mission and values. We work together to continuously improve lives, we all play a part in shaping and living the culture of our organizations, and we are all called to make meaningful contributions with a lasting positive impact. This webinar is designed to assist participants in being active allies/advocates for diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Participants will learn how to be more active in advocacy, making a commitment to shape the experiences of marginalized groups in the workplace, and create impactful contributions in the health care field.
Learn how to drive your organization to be inclusive of all people and be a leader in the care of LGBTQ people through redefining the patient and employee experience.
What are some disparities associated with maternal and child health in your community? What are the root causes of these disparities? Explore how hospitals, health systems and their community partners are joining forces to examine and address disparities in maternal care, ultimately increasing access to equitable care and improving health outcomes.
Webinars on Unconscious Bias Training: Two Approaches from Equity of Care Honorees and REaL Data Collection, Stratification and Utilization in Response to COVID-19.
Breaking the ice can be complicated! How can hospitals and health systems create trusting environments that make interactions between patients and health care providers more comfortable and inclusive? Join Keith Stinson, RN and emergency department nursing director at Chatham Hospital, serving a mostly rural area of North Carolina, and Kimberlydawn Wisdom, MD, senior VP and chief wellness & diversity officer at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit, as they describe their innovative staff training methods addressing the dynamics of unconscious biases, how to avoid uncomfortable interactions, and successful strategies for heightening bias awareness in the workplace. Both hospitals, operating in completely different clinical settings, are 2020 AHA Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award honorees.
[WEBINAR] Learn how to avoid Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Strategy Derailment and explore solutions to get DE&I fully aligned with a health provider’s business objectives.
Learn how to avoid Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) Strategy Derailment and explore solutions to get DE&I fully aligned with a health provider’s business objectives.
This session will explore strategies and internal enabling conditions for hospitals and health systems to advance health equity and simultaneously improve their business performance through an explicit focus on racial equity. Ryan De Souza, Associate Director at FSG, will share insights from the FSG report “Health Care and the Competitive Advantage of Racial Equity: How Advancing Racial Equity Can Create Business Value.” Kate Sommerfeld, President of Social Determinants of Health Institute at ProMedica, a Toledo-based non-profit health care system, will bring the insights to life by sharing ProMedica’s story on how it’s approaching this work. The strategies implemented by ProMedica are rooted in community and multisector partner alignment and help promote racial equity.
[ON-DEMAND WEBINAR] Ethnocultural empathy is empathy towards racial and ethnic minorities, and is a requisite competency in eliminating racial/ethnic health disparities. This webinar will provide participants with a few key applications from the new, research-informed curriculum at the George Washington (GW) School of Medicine and Health Services. To create this new curriculum, GW faculty led a mixed-methods study to determine course format and content most suitable for teaching and assessing empathy among traditional and non-traditional learners working with racial and ethnic minorities in a range of health care settings.
Presenter: Dr. Maranda C. Ward, Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership.  Ethnocultural empathy is empathy towards racial and ethnic minorities, and is a requisite competency in eliminating health disparities. In this webinar, Dr. Ward will provide participants with a few key applications from the new, research-informed curriculum at the George Washington (GW) School of Medicine and Health Services. To create this new curriculum, GW faculty led a mixed-methods study to determine course format and content most suitable for teaching and assessing empathy among traditional and non-traditional learners working with racial and ethnic minorities in a range of health care settings.
[ON-DEMAND CONFERENCE SESSION] Despite best efforts and intentions, health care organizations still have a lot of work to do to increase C-Suite diversity. We conducted a novel survey of successful, high achieving nurse executives of color. It reveals first hand insights on their experiences as emerging leaders, perceptions of barriers to career progression and opportunities they perceive to support their advancement. Findings from this study can support the development of innovative, sustainable models that bolster diversity nursing leadership inclusion. The presenters will detail specific strategies, guidance and organizational and personal resources that all health care leaders can employ to facilitate more diversity among leadership.
SHSMD recently hosted a webinar with the goal of providing education on the topics of gender-affirming terms and practices and the challenges embedded in the transgender patient experience.
By attending this free program, you will learn gender-affirming terms and practices, become familiar with the challenges embedded in the transgender patient experience and develop a vision for shifting your organization’s culture towards more robust inclusion.
Presenter: Dr. Maranda C. Ward, Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Research and Leadership.  Ethnocultural empathy is empathy towards racial and ethnic minorities, and is a requisite competency in eliminating health disparities. In this webinar, Dr. Ward will provide participants with a few key applications from the new, research-informed curriculum at the George Washington (GW) School of Medicine and Health Services. To create this new curriculum, GW faculty led a mixed-methods study to determine course format and content most suitable for teaching and assessing empathy among traditional and non-traditional learners working with racial and ethnic minorities in a range of health care settings.
In this webinar Rita Carreon, Deputy Vice President, Health with UnidosUS, and Jillian Warriner, manager of community benefit and health improvement at Sharp HealthCare discussed how building community collaboration and introducing novel partnerships are key to achieving health equity and ensure all achieve their highest potential for health.
This webinar will discuss how Navicent Health has developed a health equity governance and oversight structure, a program in health equity improvement and research, an organization-wide effort in m