American Medical Association Launches Initiative to Advance Health Equity

People from marginalized groups often face systemic bias that worsens their health outcomes. To combat this problem, the American Medical Association has announced a new initiative to bring equitable, quality patient-centered care to people of all backgrounds. The initiative comes will provide a year long mentorship to help health systems make racial justice and equity a priority.

According to Andis Robeznieks, “The AMA collaborated with the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and The Joint Commission to create the program, which merges patient-centered approaches to quality and safety with robust structural analyses of racism and equity to support an overall mission of delivering equitable, high-quality care to every single patient.”

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(Source: AMA, June 20^th, 2022)