Diversity in Healthcare: From Executive Management to Entry Level

Diversity in Healthcare: From Executive Management to Entry Level The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s paved the way for minorities in America being given equal access to every opportunity and resource already available to the majority. While some would argue that true equality has still not been achieved in the United States, we are, in a sense, now immersed in an entirely new struggle that goes well beyond ethnicity. A microcosm of that struggle is demonstrated daily in the healthcare sector. The delivery of healthcare services applies to everyone seeking care regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status, military status, or religious persuasion. Simply put, every human being needs appropriate healthcare in order to live a quality of life most of society would deem as desirable. Does it not then seem reasonable that a society made up of such a diverse population would benefit from an equally diverse healthcare system? Diversity in healthcare should be pervasive from top to bottom. There should not be, nor does there need to be, specific groups of people dominating executive management and entirely separate groups of people overwhelmingly represented in the rank and file, entry-level positions. Diversity in Healthcare Management In order for the diversity mindset to permeate the healthcare culture at all levels, it must start at the top.