Healthcare Administration Leadership & Management Journal
Ensuring Equity
CMOs and healthcare leaders can significantly impact diversity and equity. This article offers a framework to help CMOs build relationships to ensure patient equity and workforce diversity.
November/December 2024 Vol. 2, No. 6 pp. 285–288 DOI: 10.55834/halmj.4923497924
Abstract
The chief medical officer and other healthcare leaders are positioned to have a positive effect on both diversity and equity. While this has not often been a focus of the healthcare executive, it is important for CMOs to understand how they can influence diversity and equity. This article does not include an exclusive list of to-dos for the CMO; however, it does provide a framework so CMOs can build relationships to guarantee equity in the patient population and diversity within their workforce. It is paramount that CMOs view health equity as a top priority. It also is important to understand that equity is a continuous process. Pursuing equity should be part of everything that a CMO does.
