Our Community Leader Newsletter helps keep you informed about community connection, wellness and key updates across NorthShore University HealthSystem. We look forward to continuing in partnership with you, and thank you for your service to the local community!
We serve a diverse community, including many patients who speak Spanish. To improve support for Hispanic patients, teams across the system have invested in dedicated liaison and educator roles. >>
Specialties like sports medicine and orthopaedic surgery lack diversity. In fact, people of color make up only 15% of orthopaedic surgeons, and Black surgeons account for less than 2% overall, according to a STAT News study. >>
David Rahija spoke at the 2023 Health Insights Conference in Dallas, highlighting Skokie Hospital as a nationally ranked Orthopaedic and Spine specialty hospital that performs more orthopaedic surgeries than any hospital in Illinois. >>
NorthShore's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Team and Swedish Hospital's Oncology Team recently assembled purses brimming with goodies for women experiencing breast cancer. >>
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