As healthcare organizations across the country work to find new or better ways to serve a more racially and ethnically diverse patient base, the question is, are they making adjustments to the diversity of their own staffs and leadership as well?Most organizations would say yes, but some, like San Francisco-based Catholic Healthcare West, have the policies to prove it. CHW's recruitment policy calls for a minimum of 10% of all senior management vacancies to be filled with minority candidates -- and it starts at the top: Lloyd Dean, CHW's president and chief executive officer, is included...
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To select Modern Healthcare's first-ever listing of the Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare, the magazine issued a call for nominations on Jan. 2. The nomination deadline was Feb. 10 and was extended to Feb. 17. Readers submitted a total of 104 nominations over that seven-week period.For the purposes of this recognition program, Modern Healthcare used the U.S. Census Bureau's definition of a minority. The agency considers people with the following ethnic background to be a minority: African-American or black; Alaskan Native; American Indian; Asian; Hispanic or Latino;...
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Modern Healthcare has announced its first-ever listing of the Top 25 Minority Executives in Healthcare. The ranking appears in alphabetical order in the April 10, 2006, issue of Modern Healthcare, and online at www.modernhealthcare.com.
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