What are the root causes of systemic racism in healthcare?
Why are there disparities between healthcare education and real world practices about race and equity?
In this series on healthcare and social disparities, Dr. Jill Wener, a board-certified Internal Medicine specialist, meditation expert, and tapping practitioner, interviews experts in multiple fields relating to social justice and anti-racism. In this episode, Jill interviews Dr. Knitasha Washington, president and founder of ATW Health Solutions. Dr. Washington explains the personal impact of losing her father to a preventable medical error and how she was raised to use her voice to make a difference. They discuss the importance of improving health outcomes of all people and creating a system that values differences and beliefs of all people. Dr. Washington shared that racial trauma causes people to suppress their stories, and in order to stop that trauma from being perpetuated, there’s great importance in creating platforms for all people to share their experiences.
Dr. Washington is an advocate and performance improvement expert who has worked with healthcare systems, U.S. government agencies and numerous policymaker groups to ensure that the rights of all patients are respected, particularly the most vulnerable populations. Dr. Washington also heads an independent consulting firm ATW Health Solutions based in Chicago, Illinois. Shaped by her passion and belief in social justice, Knitasha has earned recognition nationally for work in health equity and patient safety.
With more than 20 years experience in healthcare serving primarily as a consultant, Knitasha brings a multi-dimensional talent focused primarily in the areas of systems performance improvement, operations efficiency, hospital turn-around, patient safety, patient and family engagement, quality and health equity. In 2009 she lost her father to a preventable medical error; an event that dramatically inspired her sense of urgency for eliminating harm, improving patient and family engagement and the overall health statuses of vulnerable populations through education and operations improvement.
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