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To fight systemic racism in health care, Utah’s largest hospital systems and the state hospital association say they will add more people of color to their staff and their boards, as well as expand implicit bias training for existing employees.
Leaders of Utah’s largest hospital systems released a joint statement Tuesday speaking out against systemic racism and vowing to do more to fight it.
Two things led Utah’s hospital systems to examine their role in systemic racism, according to Mikelle Moore, senior vice president of Intermountain Healthcare: The summer of Black Lives Matter protests and the unequal impact the COVID-19 pandemic is having on people of color.