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Ten hospital and health system CEOs have created a Declaration of Principles to protect their healthcare workforce.
The CEO Coalition came about earlier this year as CEOs from across the country convened virtually to examine standards of safety and trust for healthcare team members at every level of their organizations, according to the CEO Coalition. The goal is to collectively take action to protect the wellbeing of essential team members and ensure they have the systems, tools, technologies and resources they need and deserve to feel safe at work.
The founding partners are from the medical communications company Vocera and from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.
Democrats were in trouble. It was November 1984, and white, working-class voters in Macomb County had overwhelmingly voted for President Ronald Reagan for a second term. The Dems were losing their suburban, blue-collar base, and nowhere was the loss more pronounced than in Macomb County, home of the white, unionized autoworker. Just 20 years earlier, three-quarters of Macomb County voters turned out for President Lyndon Johnson, making it the most heavily Democratic suburban county in the U.S. To figure out what happened, local Democratic Party leaders hired Yale professor and pollster Stanley Greenberg. In March 1985, Greenberg sat down with Macomb County s Democratic defectors in hotel rooms and restaurants. After more than a month of interviews, Greenberg came to an startling conclusion: White, working-class voters who long identified as Democrats were fed up, fearful, and increasingly xenophobic. Their manufacturing jobs, which provided de
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Henry Ford Health adds 4 members to its board, increasing diversity
New board members (from left) John Harris, Patricia Maryland, Frederiek Toney and Andrea Zopp
Henry Ford Health System in Detroit has added four members to its board of directors, increasing its board size to 17 members with half either people of color or women.
The four are Detroit attorney John Harris, veteran health care executive Patricia Maryland, auto executive Frederiek Toney and venture capital investment manager Andrea Zopp. Three of the new members are Michiganders or have ties to the state and Zopp lives in Chicago, the health systemsaid. We believe we best serve our communities with directors who reflect the diversity of our community, are both accomplished in their fields and have tirelessly worked to advance the values of Henry Ford Health System, said Wright Lassiter III, Henry Ford s president and CEO, in a statement.