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DSC In the News

2008

Funding Sought for State Health Equity Office - The Daily News Tribune

The MGH receives Corporate Leadership Award - MGH Hotline

In General - DSC Awarded Community Leader Award from Health Care for All - MGH Hotline

DSC's Racial and Ethnic Disparities Series Report - MGH Hotline

When Cultures Collide with Medical Care - Boston Globe

Presbyterian Healthcare Services recognized for addressing disparities - New Mexico Business Weekly

Bitter Pill: Prescription Discimination - Boston Herald

Week of events at the MGH focuses on disparities - MGH Hotline

2007

More French medical services needed: professor - CBC News

State working to narrow ethnic health gap - Boston Now, courtesy of The Associated Press

The Color of Health Care: Diagnosing Bias in Doctors - The Washington Post

Doctor's treatment decisions influenced by race bias - The Harvard Crimson

Study Points to Emergency Room Bias Against Blacks - National Public Radio

Race in Medical Care: Skin Color Matters with Patient Care - ABC News/Good Morning America

Racial Bias in Emergency Rooms - WBUR Radio

Tests of ER trainees find signs of race bias in care - Boston Globe

Bloc party - Boston Globe

Sharing disparities solutions and tools for change - MGH Hotline

The MGH makes $18.6 million commitment to community health - MGH Hotline

New bill addresses unequal access to healthcare - MGH Hotline

Medicare Should Take Leading Role in Reducing Health Disparities, Expert Panel Says - The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at www.rwjf.org

Baylor tapped for equal treatment study - Dallas Business Journal

What's Happening: Documentary or Islam and modern medicine - MGH Hotline

Service Matters: Shaping the experience of care - MGH Hotline

Partners and the MGH celebrate Rev. Dr. Marting Luther King, Jr. - MGH Hotline

25 Overall Most-read Health Affairs Papers in 2006 - Health Affairs at www.HealthAffairs.org

2006

Depression engulfs area's Puerto Ricans: Researchers cite poverty, isolation - Boston Globe

New racial and ethnic disparities dashboard - MGH Hotline

Racial divide found across health plans - Boston Globe

MGH joins Be Healthy Collaboration - MGH Hotline

Be Healthy: New section aims to end racial and ethnic health disparities - The Boston-Bay State Banner

Hospitals to Ask More than Usual Patient Data - Boston Globe

Disparities Solutions Center Highlights Progress at Open House - MGH Hotline

Medical Care Lacking But Equal: Blacks, Hispanics Fare Slightly Better Than Whites, Study Finds - Washington Post

2005

A Year of Sweet Victories - The Nation

The Disparities Solutions Center en el Massachusetts General Hospital Atacando la diabetes - El Planeta

Sweet Victory: Bridging the Health Care Gap - The Nation

Patient Partners - Boston Globe

Boston takes aim at racial disparities in healthcare - The Christian Science Monitor

Boston Initiative - Medical News Today

Health Care and Race - National Public Radio

Closing the Health Care Gap - WBUR Radio

Center targets racial gap in health care - Boston Herald

MGH seeks to bridge healthcare's racial gap: Center envisions end to disparities - Boston Globe

Disparities Solutions Center launched at the MGH - MGH Hotline

DSC Press Releases

2007

Jessie Kimbrough-Sugick Named as Inaugural Aetna/Disparities Solutions Center (DSC) Healthcare Disparities Fellow

13 health care organizations selected for national leadership program to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care

2005

MGH creates national, hospital-based center to end racial and ethnic disparities in health care

DSC Publications

2007

Commonwealth Fund Report Suggests Residents Lack Sufficient Cross-Cultural Training

Resident Physicians' Preparedness to Provide Cross-Cultural Care: Implications for Clinical Care and Medical Education Policy

2006

Improving Quality and Achieving Equity: The Role of Cultural Competence in Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

2005

Mixed Messages: Residents' Experiences Learning Cross-Cultural Care

Resident Physicians' Prepardeness to Provide Cross-Cultural Care 

The Human Face of Health Disparities