Monday, July 12, 2021
 

"To address health disparities and inequities and improve health outcomes, we have to have culturally competent healthcare being delivered by people who we know and trust or that understand us." — Geraldine Young, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, CDCES, FAANP, chief diversity and inclusion officer, Frontier Nursing University

Hospital and other healthcare organizations working to remedy the health inequities and disparities made glaringly obvious by COVID-19 might take a lesson from Frontier Nursing University (FNU), in Versailles, Kentucky, which has been progressively providing a more diverse healthcare system for more than a decade.

FNU's Diversity Impact Program has tripled its student of color population from 9% to 28% in the last decade in its mission to better provide racially concordant care. I talked with FNU's chief diversity and inclusion officer, Geraldine Young, DNP, APRN, FNP-BC, CDCES, FAANP, about how the nursing school has grown its efforts in contributing to more diversity in healthcare. Read what she said HERE.

 

How Frontier Nursing University Has Pioneered a More Diverse Healthcare System
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Carol Davis
Nursing Editor