AHA podcast highlights equity award winners

An American Hospital Association podcast features the 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award winners. A physician at Augusta Health in the Shenandoah Valley, Va., explains how Augusta uses data at the neighborhood level on mental health, addiction and diabetes and then collaborates with neighborhood partners on solutions. The chief diversity officer at AnMed in Anderson, S.C., discusses how the hospital partnered with the Urban League of the Upstate of South Carolina to co-host the Black Men in White Coats Youth Summit to provide outreach, education and field exploration for underrepresented populations. The hospital’s foundation and the United Way of Anderson County formed a fundraising partnership to provide nourishment to food-insecure people and teach them to prepare and grow their own food.