WIHI - A Podcast from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement

Date: April 19, 2018   Featuring: Julie Kennedy Oehlert, DNP, RN, Chief Experience Officer, Vidant Health Jermaine McNair, Executive Director, NC CIVIL Jafet Arrieta, MD, MMS, Director, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Meghan Hassinger Welch, MBA, Senior Project Manager, IHI   Eight health systems are working with IHI to broaden their impact on health equity as part of the two-year Pursuing Equity initiative​. These systems are working to elevate health equity to a strategic priority, confront institutional racism, and improve the livelihood and health of their patients, employees, and surrounding communities. Vidant Health​, based in Greenville, North Carolina, is a 1,447-bed health system serving more than one million patients each year from 29 eastern North Carolina counties. This part of the state is largely rural, poor, and home to a racially diverse population. Vidant's health equity priorities are centered on improving the health and wellbeing of their patients and — as the largest e