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The Patient Safety Issue of Racial Disparities and the Opportunity for “Health Equity By Design”

In 2021, racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare are a top patient safety issue, according to ECRI’s annual list of major concerns facing healthcare consumers’ risks to adverse events that can harm them. ECRI has published their annual Top 10 list since 2018, when the list featured diagnostic errors, o behavioral health needs in acute… Read More »

Arkansas and Colorado issue mask requirements

Governors of both Arkansas and Colorado issued mandates Thursday requiring residents to wear masks in public. Target, CVS, and grocery chain Publix also announced Thursday that customers must wear masks in their stores. That comes a day after Walmart and Kohl’s announced similar policies. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, said his state’s mandate would… Read More »