Seattle Children’s Hospital identifies racial disparities in infections, security response

As part of their recently released Health Equity and Anti-Racism Action Plan, Seattle Children’s Hospital has identified racial and ethnic disparities that exist in their practices including infections in specific IV techniques as well as in a protocol used to call security on patients.

The action plan comes after public backlash surrounding how the organization’s administration and board of trustees kept hidden the results of an independent audit of the organization’s workplace culture of racial and ethnic equity issues.

The document identifies goals such as increasing “employee diversity by race/ethnicity to 40% to further reflect patient population,” and measures to improve equity, diversity and inclusion training among multiple levels

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