Intermountain Healthcare and Maverik donate $2 million to Utah Department of Health to fund community health workers for vulnerable communities Intermountain Healthcare | Mar 5, 2021
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Intermountain Healthcare and Maverik – Adventure’s First Stop are joining together to donate $2 million in funding to support a Utah Department of Health program to mitigate the spread and negative impact of COVID-19 and support vulnerable community members.
Community health workers are actively addressing the health disparities among communities of color that have widened during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Community health workers are frontline public health workers who have a unique relationship with the community they serve and can act as a bridge between the community and health and social resources.
SafeNest receives $500,000 from Intermountain Healthcare to prevent domestic violence Mar 02, 2021 at 01:00 PM Copied!
LAS VEGAS SafeNest will receive a $500,000 contribution from Intermountain Healthcare to bolster its work on ending domestic violence in Nevada.
SafeNest is Nevada s largest nonprofit dedicated to ending the epidemic of domestic violence. Intermountain s contribution will support the Coaching Boys Into Men and Athletes as Leaders programs SafeNest will run in Clark County in 2021 and 2022. Both programs seek to end domestic and sexual violence before it starts by equipping young male and female athletes and their coaches with the resources and skills necessary to build healthy relationships.
SALT LAKE CITY After seeing a number of Black Americans killed in 2020 including George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor, to name a few Utah doctors knew the country s treatment of people of color needed to change in many aspects, and especially in health care.
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated and highlighted health disparities among minority populations with a disproportionate number of individuals in marginalized communities at a higher risk to become infected. We have seen that Utah is not exempt from experiencing inequities, as one can see with the striking disproportion of cases of COVID-19 in our communities of color, said Dr. Paloma Cariello, associate dean for health equity, diversity and inclusion in the University of Utah School of Medicine.
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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.