Committing to Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (JEDI)
CHALLENGES/OPPORTUNITIES
How are you achieving the Quintuple Aim of improved patient experiences, better population health outcomes, reduced costs, increased clinician/staff wellbeing, and greater health equity?
How are you embracing the Commonwealth Fund's Charter on Professionalism for Health Care Organizations?
How are you addressing the DHHS Office of Minority Health's National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care?
How are you meeting the Joint Commission’s health care equity accreditation standards Health Care Equity Accreditation Resource Center?
How are you addressing JEDI-related requirements from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME), Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), and other health professions organizations? UME and GME
How are you challenging bias, prejudice, and the "isms" in their various forms as well as their impact on caring for patients across the life span and on our diverse health professions workforce? NAM: Educating Health Professions Educators to Address the “Isms"
How are you addressing the social determinants of health in your clinical practice and population health improvement activities? SDoH
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MISSION
We provide training, consultation, and technical assistance in the delivery of high quality, culturally responsive and effective, patient-centered care to diverse communities.
Together, we work with health care organizations, hospitals, academic medical centers, health professional specialty groups, community non-profits, government, industry, and the private sector to help bring about the needed transformations.
May the Force be with us on the continuing JEDI journey ....
Services
TRAINING
Lectures, seminars, interactive workshops, small group experiential exercises, and webinars are available about a host of JEDI-related topics including: Addressing Disparities, Implicit Bias, and the Isms in Health and Health Care; Addressing Cultural Diversity Issues in Clinical Care; Addressing the Social Determinants of Health in Clinical Practice; Fostering Equity in Health Care: The Role of Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Service Delivery; The Hospital’s Role in Improving the Quality and Safety of Care Provided to Diverse Populations: Addressing the ACGME’s CLER Requirements; Fostering Equity and Cultural Competence in Health Care: Why We Need to Engage Diverse Patients, Families, and Communities; Addressing the Social Determinants of Health: How Clinicians Can Help Improve Community and Population Health; Caring for Patients with Health Literacy Challenges; Caring for Patients with Limited English Proficiency; Caring for Immigrants, Refugees, and Migrants; Addressing Spiritual and Religious Issues During Clinical Encounters; and Interprofessional Teamwork: Caring for Patients, Families, and Communities. These and other sessions can be tailored in terms of content, format, and duration to meet the individual needs of diverse groups and organizations. Fees are negotiable.
CONSULTING
Consultation and technical assistance are available for: 1) developing clinically relevant content and case studies for use in educational modules and programs; 2) assessing the cultural competence and cultural humility of physicians and other health care professionals; and 3) identifying and sharing resources to improve the quality of care and service delivery to diverse populations and communities.
JEDI LEADER
Robert Like
Founder and CEO
Robert C. Like, MD, MS is an Emeritus Professor and was the Founding Director of the Center for Healthy Families and Cultural Diversity, Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He is a board-certified family physician with a background in medical anthropology and is nationally known for his work in the areas of cultural competence, equity in health and health care, and health professions education. Dr. Like has been actively involved for more than 35 years in presenting predoctoral, residency, and continuing medical education programs relating to the delivery of culturally responsive and effective, patient-centered care to diverse populations.
Features
Health Equity Statistics
Here are links to selected government and private foundation websites that provide demographic and epidemiological statistics relating to disparities in health and health care experienced by diverse populations and communities. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - National Center for Health Statistics - Minority Health and Health Equity - Racism and Health - Women’s Health - Human Development and Disability Office of Minority Health (OMH) - Minority Population Profiles - Healthy People 2020 Health Disparities Data Widget Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) - National Health Care Quality and Disparities Reports Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) - Behavioral Health Equity Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute - County Health Rankings & Roadmaps Commonwealth Fund Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care. A Scorecard of State Performance
Learn MoreResources
Here are links to selected health equity and JEDI resources including reports, monographs, toolkits, and curricular materials for use in health care and medical/health professions education settings. The Joint Commission: Health Care Equity Accreditation Resource Center AMA STEPS Forward: Racial and Health Equity: Concrete STEPS for Smaller Practices AMA/AAMC - Advancing Health Equity Language Guide AHA - Equity of Care: A Toolkit for Eliminating Health Care Disparities AAFP - Health Equity Curricular Toolkit AAFP - The EveryONE Project™ ELAM/Drexel Medicine - Building Diverse and Inclusive Communities in Academic Health Centers AAMC - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Competencies Across the Learning Continuum Rutgers University Libraries - Resources for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Medical Education and other Populations Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Anti-Racism (DEIA) Resources
Learn MoreMedia
Here are links to selected inspiring TED Talks during which professionals, advocates, and consumers from diverse populations share their personal perspectives, insights, expertise, and experiences relating to JEDI issues. TED Talks Health Disparities and Racism Social Determinants of Health Disabilities LGBTQIA+ Size and Weight Issues Deaf and Hard of Hearing Veterans
Learn MoreJEDI MEDITATIONS
Deuteronomy 16:20
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.”
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Health statistics represent people with the tears wiped off.”
Sir Austin Bradford Hill
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference.”
Elie Wiesel
“Equity is the only acceptable goal.”
Dr. Paul Farmer
“Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.”
Paulo Freire
“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.”
Benjamin Franklin
“We need to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.”
Finley Peter Dunne
“It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.”
Audre Lorde
“Preservation of one’s own culture does not require contempt or disrespect for other cultures.”
Cesar Chavez
“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.”
Maya Angelou
"We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence."
Albert Einstein
“We should indeed keep calm in the face of difference, and live our lives in a state of inclusion and wonder at the diversity of humanity.”
George Takei
"Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life."
Emma Thompson
“I wish for a world that views disability, mental or physical, not as a hindrance but as unique attributes that can be seen as powerful assets if given the right opportunities.”
Dr. Oliver Sacks
“Inclusion is not bringing people into what already exists, it is making a new space, a better space for everyone.”
Rachel Olivero
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
Helen Keller
“Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.”
Virginia Burden
"None of us is as smart as all of us.“
Ken Blanchard
“The fatal pedagogical error is to throw answers like stones at the heads of those who have not yet asked the question."
Paul Tillich
"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Victor Frankl
“Adding wings to caterpillars does not create butterflies. It creates awkward and dysfunctional caterpillars. Butterflies are created through transformation.”
Stephanie Pace Marshall
“There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race.”
Toni Morrison
“We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.”
Mahnaz Afkhami
"My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together."
Desmond Tutu
"We are the heirs to whatever is right or wrong with it. We did not erect uneven pillars or joists, but they are ours to deal with now."
Isabel Wilkerson
"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? If not now, when?"
Rabbi Hillel - Pirkei Avot 1:14
"It is not your duty to finish the work, but neither are you at liberty to neglect it."
Rabbi Tarfon - Pirkei Avot 2:16
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