Consumers Advancing Patient Safety Presents:
HEALTHCARE EQUITY AND YOU
What can YOU do to achieve equitable outcomes?
HealthCare Equity and YOU – A CAPS Perspectives Series Webinar
The first Webinar in the CAPS Perspectives Series featured Erica Gollett-Steed, MBA and Ronald Wyatt, MD sharing their insights into how you as a patient or clinician can achieve health equity.
Steed shares her impactful story of inequity, where implicit bias in her care led to long-term injury to her then newborn, now teenage, son. Steed encourages persons to be the “CEO of our temples – bodies,” by:
- Having awareness of your personal Assumptions (Think)
- Avoiding Shortcuts (Act)
- Reflecting on Actions (Study)
Dr. Wyatt shared data that documents the outcomes of inequity and the biases that exist among some providers. He :
- Discusses Equity and Patient Safety
- Reviews the multiple determinants of health
- Recommends an Equity strategy
Listen to this Webinar, that CAPS Community Advisory Panel member Tara Bristol Rouse called an, “Amazing opportunity to hear from two transformational leaders re: the promotion of equity in healthcare…”
Ron Wyatt, MD
Chief Quality Officer at Cook County Health, one of the largest public health systems in the USA.
Erica Gollett-Steed
Patient Advocate, Former Manager, Patient and Family Centered Care, Georgia Health System.