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As the nation becomes ever more diverse, many healthcare leaders say they are succeeding in attracting a greater number of minority candidates to top healthcare positions. There are some data to back up that contention. Although it’s still relatively small, the percentage of members of the American College of Healthcare Executives who are minorities has risen over the past decade, as have the number of hospitals and systems with formal diversity strategies and a commitment to the recruitment of minorities. However, there is a difference between “programmatic” diversity and sustainable...
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The leadership of any industry should be reflective of its customers. Nowhere is this imperative more critical than in the very human business of healthcare. The diversity of this country is one of its greatest strengths—a microcosm of the world—and, at its best, a model for a creative use of difference in the world. Ensuring that those who guide the institutions of American healthcare understand and also represent the diversity of this country is important.
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Since May 2004, Anthony Armada, 48, has been president and chief executive officer of Henry Ford Hospital and Health Network in Detroit, overseeing Henry Ford’s 736-bed flagship hospital, 25 ambulatory-care centers in the metropolitan Detroit area, and the system’s behavioral health services. He was also recently named the first chairman of the Asian Health Care Leaders Association, a new organization whose goal is to increase the number of Asian executives in healthcare and improve the quality of healthcare services provided to this population.
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To select Modern Healthcare’s second biennial listing of the Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare, co-sponsored by Russell Reynolds Associates, the magazine issued a call for nominations on Dec. 17, 2007. The nomination deadline was Feb. 8. Readers submitted a total of 89 nominations over that eight-week period.
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