A coalition of health care organizations is highlighting how collecting patients’ demographic data, expanding cultural competency training and diversifying health leadership can help reduce care disparities.

For example, New York-Presbyterian Hospital started an initiative to improve care for patients in the largely Hispanic neighborhoods of Washington Heights and Inwood in New York City. The effort included a four-hour training program for health professionals to help address patients’ cultural, language and literacy needs.

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