Executive Certificate in Diversity and Health Equity: Curriculum & Schedule

This interactive and supportive presentation traces the history of health equity and examines the roots of the challenges faced by historically marginalized health equity leaders. Participants will explore the concept of "weathering"—the cumulative impact of chronic stress and adversity—on their well-being and professional resilience. Through facilitated discussions and reflective exercises, attendees will identify strategies to navigate these challenges, cope with dignity, and foster personal and collective growth in the midst of today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment. Join us to build a supportive community and explore pathways to not only survive, but to thrive.

This module will aid in acquiring the baseline knowledge and tools to convert a strategic plan into operations. By using key project management tools and developing a comprehensive Diversity/Disparities Action Plan, this module includes content that will effectively utilize all aspects of the certification program to build or enhance the individual's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion plan in alignment with organization's strategic plan. Its development will serve as the program’s Capstone Project.

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The module will cover the following objectives:

• Provide a history of racism and health disparities and the role health care systems have played in America.
• Define racism and forms of racism that have contributed to health care disparities experienced today.
• Present Froedtert Health’s case study on creating a justice, equity, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) strategic plan that addresses and works to eradicate racism, health care disparities and exclusion within the organization and in the diverse communities it serves.
• Share leading practices and lessons learned from the health care system’s journey.

• The purpose of this module is to examine the Enhanced Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards, including cultural humility and health care disparities and their impact on safety, quality and equity in patient care.  The CLAS Standards were promulgated in 2001 by the Office of Minority Affairs of the Department of Health and Human Services to ensure that health care organizations were meeting the cultural and linguistic needs of patients and to eliminate health care disparities and improve health care for all Americans.
• This module will explore each of the standards and propose strategies that health care organizations can implement to be compliant with each standard, eliminate disparities and increase culturally appropriate care.
• Deploying the Enhanced CLAS standards throughout the organization can assist in meeting The Joint Commission guidelines. 
• Faculty will discuss their involvement in organizational and national projects to increase cultural competency and eliminate disparities at their health care organization.    

• The purpose of this module is to examine the impact of supplier inclusion on the health care industry, supply chain and its return on investment. It also is designed to explore the intersection of social determinants of health and supplier inclusion. This module will explore six dimensions of healthcare supplier inclusion. These dimensions include the evolution of supplier inclusion, paradigm shift from entitlement to growth enabler, business proposition, business operations, healthcare and supply chain drivers and impact on the social determinants of health. Strategies and tools health care providers can utilize to realize the advantages of a supplier inclusion program also will be explored.
• Implementation of a supplier inclusion program compliments several key healthcare objectives, to include cost reductions, diversity and inclusion and the “Triple Aim.” The impact of a successful supplier inclusion program is measurable and justifiable. Tools, such as, standards of measurement and return on investment will be explored as useful justification techniques.
• Faculty will discuss examples and “Best Practices” deployed by health care organizations across the country. Students will share their pre-work and engage in discussion regarding their organization’s efforts or willingness. Practical steps and strategies for beginners, intermediate and more sophisticated supplier diversity programs will be discussed within this context.

The purpose of this course is to introduce key principles and practices needed to build a sustainable inclusive talent management strategy. At the end of this module, learners will:

• Articulate benefits of embedding diversity, equity and inclusion in an organizational talent strategy.
• Integrate intentional tactics and strategies that embed diversity, equity and inclusion across the talent cycle.
• Examine challenges and innovative solutions to build and sustain a diverse workforce.

• Demographics and Community Orientation is a course in community benefit and community health needs assessment (CHNA). The course is designed to provide an understanding of the importance of appropriate data collection and analysis to align the organization’s priorities with the needs and values of the community. This includes its cultural and ethnocentric values, through conducting and utilizing the findings of a CHNA to contribute to an organization’s strategic plan. 
• Participants will learn the requirements, components, analysis and application of a CHNA.  This course will provide an understanding of the importance of data analysis and how evaluating community data significantly impacts the value and strategic direction of your diversity and community benefit programs. 
• This course will help the participants develop an organizational response to a CHNA that meets the regulatory and accrediting body requirements and defines organizational goals, tactics, outcomes and measures of success. Participants will also learn how this informs and contributes to the organization’s strategic plan, as well as identify the role of the diversity practitioner in both contributing to the organization’s strategic plan and addressing health and health care disparities.  

• Since the mandate of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 our nation has been in pursuit of equitable care for all citizens. In 2002, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) landmark study, "Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care," published documented proof that access has not resulted in equity. IOM research demonstrated significant variation in the rates of medical procedures by race, even when insurance status, income, age and severity of conditions were comparable. According to this research, US racial and ethnic minorities were less likely to receive routine medical procedures and experienced a lower quality of health services. Nearly 25 years after the publication of Unequal Treatment, the struggle to meet the needs of limited-English proficient patients continues. However, new requirements from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have provided a much needed “Game Changer!”
• This module is designed to provide certificate candidates with tools and strategies to provide compliant, culturally and linguistically appropriate language services within a hospital or health system regardless of size or complexity.