"To address health disparities and inequities and improve health outcomes, we have to have culturally competent healthcare being delivered by people who we know and trust or that understand us." — Geraldine Young, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, CDCES, FAANP, chief diversity and inclusion officer, Frontier Nursing University Hospital and other healthcare organizations working to remedy the health inequities and disparities made glaringly obvious by COVID-19 might take a lesson from Frontier Nursing University (FNU), in Versailles, Kentucky, which has been progressively providing a more diverse healthcare system for more than a decade. FNU's Diversity Impact Program has tripled its student of color population from 9% to 28% in the last decade in its mission to better provide racially concordant care. I talked with FNU's chief diversity and inclusion officer, Geraldine Young, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, CDCES, FAANP, about how the nursing school has grown its efforts in contributing to more diversity in healthcare. Read what she said HERE. |