Health care leaders commit to focus on racial disparities

Health care leaders commit to focus on racial disparities

Publication Date: June 24, 2020

Protests against police brutality are reinvigorating efforts to address racial disparities, top health care sector leaders say. At an online summit hosted by the Massachusetts Coalition for Serious Illness Care, prominent Brigham and Women’s surgeon and writer Atul Gawande, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts CEO Andrew Dreyfus, and the Institute for Health Care Improvement’s Kate DeBartolo said they’re committed to fixing racial disparities.

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