DE & I Initiatives Can Help Address Healthcare Workforce Challenge According to Deloitte

Implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) initiatives and addressing the workforce challenge in healthcare are not mutually exclusive. In fact, improving DE&I may be one of the quickest ways to alleviate the pressure of finding and keeping healthcare talent. How? Indigenous groups, visible minorities, and women are underutilized talent pools. With encouragement and training they could be a great source of healthcare staff. Shanil Ebrahim, a Partner and the National Life Sciences & Healthcare Consulting Leader at Deloitte Canada, is a firm believer that strategies designed to improve the diversity of healthcare workforces will ultimately lead to better outcomes for patients, more pools of talent, and stronger relationships between healthcare organizations and the communities they serve. Healthcare IT Today had the opportunity to do a deep dive into DE&I and healthcare’s workforce challenge with Ebrahim. Importance of DE&I in Healthcare A study conducted by the Commonwealth Fund, found that patient satisfaction and health outcomes improve when healthcare providers and their patients “have concordance in their racial, ethnic, and language backgrounds.” Stated simply, patients feel better cared for when someone with the same cultural context and who can speak in their primary language is part of their care team. More recently, Deloitte published the results of their research on healthcare executives’ perspectives on health equity. They found...
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