FREE webinar presentation by Dr. Alexander Green: The Joint Commission and Other Regulations on Cultural Competence in Healthcare - Is Your Organization Prepared?
General
Date: Thursday 10/15/2009
1 Month(s) 1 Week(s) 3 Day(s) ago
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Organizer: Sarah Rogalewski ( )
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As many of you might know, there are many compelling reasons to explore building a culturally competent organization - the primary goal being to provide the highest quality of care to all patients. However, the regulatory landscape is also changing and whether an organization is ready or not - they will need to be responsible for providing cultural competency training for all their healthcare staff.

Dr. Green will review the draft standards recently published by the Joint Commission, as well as additional regulations requiring healthcare organizations to provide cultural competency training for accreditation. He will also review training solutions that hospitals and health plans have implemented around the country.

To register for the webinar on Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 3:00 PM EST, please click here .

To register for the webinar on Monday, October 26, 2009, at 12:00 PM EST, please click here .

The webinar is approximately 40 minutes in length and will be followed by a live question and answer session with Dr. Alex Green.

About Alexander Green, MD, MPH
Dr. Alex Green is Associate Director at the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor and Chair of the Cross-Cultural Care Committee at Harvard Medical School. He has authored articles on topics including cross-cultural education, culturally competent health care systems, and language barriers and interpreters, and has presented his work widely.

About Manhattan Cross Cultural Group
Manhattan Cross Cultural Group is a training and research organization committed to improving health care to diverse patient populations and eliminating health disparities. MCCG was founded by Drs. Joseph Betancourt, Alexander Green and Emilio Carrillo - three practicing physicians and thought-leaders in the field of cross-cultural health care. Collectively, they have worked with top governmental agencies, leading hospitals, foundations, and managed care organizations to further the goal of achieving high quality care for all patients. They have published several important articles including one that summarizes their approach to cross-cultural health care in the Annals of Internal Medicine and is the basis for the Quality Interactions program. (Cross-Cultural Primary Care: A Patient-Based Approach.Ann Intern Med. 1999;130:829-834)