Also, Cisco has committed $50 million to offer scholarships to students at historically Black colleges and universities, and the Annenberg Foundation has given a challenge grant of $25 million to protect wild cougars in Los Angeles.
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RUSH, BMO TEAM UP ON HEALTH EQUITY HEALTH PULSE EXCLUSIVE: The Rush University System for Health and BMO Financial Group are launching an institute that aims to improve economic vitality and health outcomes in the region.
BMO’s $10 million donation to create the Rush BMO Institute for Health Equity is the three-hospital network’s largest-ever gift in support of eliminating health disparities. Health Pulse subscribers get the details first here.
SLUGGISH HEALTH CARE EMPLOYMENT CONTINUES: April brought more underwhelming employment news for healthcare employment, with nursing homes and hospitals continuing to shed jobs.
Preliminary jobs numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics show the number of jobs in healthcare dipped by an estimated 4,100 in April from the prior month, largely because the agency revised upward its preliminary March total by 19,100.
Rush, Chicago bank launch $10 million health equity institute
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The Rush University System for Health and BMO Financial Group are launching an institute that aims to improve economic vitality and health outcomes in the region.
BMO’s $10 million donation to create the Rush BMO Institute for Health Equity is the three-hospital network’s largest-ever gift in support of eliminating health disparities. The institute intends to raise a total of $70 million over the next several years to build on existing initiatives at Rush, with a focus on four key areas: education and workforce development; innovative community-based care; community engagement to address social factors that affect health, such as food insecurity; and research.
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A report recently published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that from March to December last year, Hispanics were disproportionately hospitalized for Covid-19 compared to whites. Hospital experts echoed similar local trends and said unless structural changes are achieved, these outsize numbers will recur during another crisis.
The report looked at nearly 3.8 million hospitalized patients, including almost 300,000 patients with a Covid-19 diagnosis. In the Northeast, 14% of hospitalized patients were Hispanic, compared to Blacks (13%), Asians (10%) and whites (7%). The regional data accounted for Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Norton Healthcare s Institute for Health Equity will have a future permanent home in The Village, a one-stop community shop in Louisville s Russell neighborhood opening this summer, officials announced Wednesday.
The Institute, which launched in June, will work to mitigate and address problems as it relates to the social determinants of health on the corner of 12th and Jefferson streets, said Executive Director Dr. Kelly McCants.
The planned space is not your traditional health care clinic, McCants said. Among other things, the institute will provide mental health and behavioral health services, he said, as well as social services. We want to position the Institute for Health Equity to serve as a central hub for community-based organizations and resources, he said, to come together to address factors that contribute to health disparities, including housing, healthy food options, transportation and child care.