Health Equity
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Care Management Partnership with Community Health Workers Is Leading to Greater Health Equity
BY LISA SIMMONS-FIELDS, DNP, MSA, RN, CCM, CPHQ, FCM, AND MAUREEN PIKE, MPH, MBA, RN INTRODUCTION For the past three years, Trinity…
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LGBTQIA2S+ Health Equity: The Need for Inclusivity in Healthcare
BY JENNIFER GAZDA, LCSW, CMC, CDP When involved in a discussion of potential topics for this publication related to health equity,…
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Closing the Digital Gap: How Case Managers Champion Tequity in Healthcare
BY DR. COLLEEN MORLEY-GRABOWSKI, DNP, RN, CCM, CMAC, CMCN, ACM-RN, FCM The healthcare industry has undergone a massive transformation over the…
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Community Health Workers — An Essential Workforce For Achieving Health Equity
BY DR. RAINE ARNDT-COUCH, DSW, JD, LCSW, CCM Health equity is a fundamental goal in healthcare, aiming to ensure that everyone…
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Disparities in Healthcare Why Do Inequities Persist?
BY MICHAEL NORDÉ, LICSW When receiving care from your provider, how important is informed consent? What if you learned that, statistically,…
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Cultural Humility: Addressing the Age-Old Problem of Health Inequities
BY DARRYL WASHINGTON, D.ED., MS THE ANCIENT ISSUE OF INEQUITY The rudiments of any developing culture begin with the creation…
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The Next Iron Triangle: Worker Safety, Health Equity and Home-Based Care
BY LISA BEDNARZ, LCSW, CMAC, ACM-SW Catalyzed by the COVID-19 pandemic and supported by the aging American public, home-based care is…
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Social and Political Activism Is One Solution to Prevent Avoidable Deaths of Black and Brown Babies in the United States
BY KELVA EDMUNDS-WALLER, DNP, RN, CCM, WITH NICOLE M. MEREDITH, BSN, RN, CNOR, CSSM The United States of America, one…
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Mental Health Disparities Among Blacks in the United States: Shared Culpability and Responsibility to Remove the Stigma
BY KELVA EDMUNDS-WALLER, DNP, RN, CCM As a Black woman and healthcare professional, I struggle with words like stigma used…
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