“Presented here are ten things every health care organization can do to achieve a more inclusive and affirming health care environment. These practical strategies are meant to be broad enough to be adaptable, yet specific enough to allow for measuring progress. In taking these steps, you will make significant strides in providing equitable health...
National LGBT Health Education Center – Providing Welcoming Services and Care for LGBT People
A guide to providing appropriate and welcoming care to LGBT individuals for health care providers and staff.
Georgetown University – Cultural Competence in Health Care: Is it Important for People with Chronic Conditions?
“The increasing diversity of the nation brings opportunities and challenges for health care providers, health care systems, and policy makers to create and deliver culturally competent services. Cultural competence is defined as the ability of providers and organizations to effectively deliver health care services that meet the social, cultural,...
Academic Medicine – Commentary: Linking Cultural Competence Training to Improved Health Outcomes: Perspectives From the Field
The Institute of Medicine report entitled Unequal Treatment recommended that all health care professionals receive training in cross-cultural communication—also called “cultural competence”—as one potential strategy for addressing racial or ethnic disparities in health care. Although evidence shows that cultural competence training improves the attitudes, knowledge, and skills of physicians...
National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC)
The mission of the NCCC is to increase the capacity of health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.
GWHWI 2015 Speaker Presentations
View the collected presentations from the GW Health Workforce Insitute’s 2015 Speaker Series.
GW Health Workforce Institute (GWHWI)
The GW Health Workforce Institute (GWHWI) was chartered in December 2014 as an university-wide initiative to strengthen health workforce policies in the United States and around the world. View this webinar for more information on the workforce research, education, and events GWHWI has to offer.
NACHC – Recruitment, Onboarding, & Retention Toolkit
This 2015 toolkit discusses common challenges faced by health centers while recruiting and retaining new clinicians and offers techniques and resources for success.
NACHC – UTeam Onboarding Essentials
The University of Virginia and the National Association of Community Health Centers have put together a toolkit for employee onboarding that looks at successful practices and resources used in all stages of the first years of recruitment and retention of new employees.
Nexus – New “Stories from the Nexus” Highlight Practice Transformations
Two “Stories from the Nexus” podcasts detail, in roundtable format, how two health care teams implemented interprofessional care to create change in their practice settings.