Unifying Outpatient Practices to Redress Structural Racism in an Urban Health System.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

There is a strong and increasing focus on redressing structural racism in health care systems. Structural racism persists by separating clinical care sites that treat patients of racial and ethnic minority groups who are disproportionately covered by Medicaid from sites that treat patients who are White and disproportionately covered by commercial insurance. Practice unification refers to efforts to eliminate this form of segregation.

Objective

To define and investigate the facilitators, barriers, and the effects associated with unification of outpatient practices to reduce structural racism in a large urban health system.

Design, setting, and participants

This qualitative study used semistructured interviews conducted within a large urban health system in

SUBMITTER: Schlozman SR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11846003 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature