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From Awareness to Action: Practical Steps for Implementing DEI in Healthcare

Date:
Thursday, July 27, 2023
Time:
2 PM ET
Duration:
1 hour
 

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are often seen as a box to check off with training and policies. This should not be the case, especially with today’s evolving professional landscape that embraces the need for psychological safety in the workplace. While training is a crucial element of a comprehensive DEI program, it is essential to recognize that proper implementation extends beyond training.

By nurturing a culture that prioritizes DEI, your organization can unlock many advantages ranging from enhanced productivity to improved patient outcomes to bolstered retention rates — and it’s far more feasible than you may realize.

Join Rola Aamar, PhD, Vince Baiera, BSN, and Kelli Slade as they discuss the growing need for a comprehensive DEI program and the benefits they bring, internally and externally, along with actionable steps that your organization can start taking today!

Learning objectives:

  • Explore a comprehensive breakdown of the current healthcare workforce.
  • Discover actionable steps that you can take right away to integrate DEI principles that drive sustainable change seamlessly.
  • Identify what’s necessary to create and foster an environment that empowers employees and promotes long-term retention.

Rola Aamar, PhD

Partner, Behavioral Health Solutions
Relias

Rola Aamar completed her PhD in Marriage and Family Therapy from Texas Tech University, where she focused her clinical research on vulnerable populations and the importance of treatment alliance between patients, the family, and healthcare providers. Aamar was a SAMHSA Minority Fellowship Program fellow from 2014-2015. She has years of behavioral health clinical experience working with multidisciplinary healthcare teams in primary and specialty treatment, where she implemented clinical protocols to address social and relational barriers of care. She is currently a Partner for Behavioral Health Solutions at Relias, bringing her clinical and operational knowledge of integrated care, clinical research, and behavioral healthcare to support client use of population performance data to improve clinical performance and patient health outcomes. In this role, she provides clinically informed, data-driven consulting to clients to promote performance improvement.

Vince Baiera, BSN

Partner, Post-Acute Care
Relias

Vince Baiera started his career at The Cleveland Clinic and Duke University Hospital as a Cardiothoracic ICU Nurse. Moving on to work as a traveling ICU nurse, Baiera worked in more than 15 hospitals across the U.S. and U.S. Virgin Islands. He became the lead faculty member at Central Nursing College, a one-year, accelerated LPN school. After years of consulting, Baiera switched to the business side of healthcare and now strives to make a measurable difference working with organizations to solve their biggest problems around staffing, retention, and patient care. Baiera is also an international best-selling coauthor of The Nurses Guide To Innovation, which teaches nurses how to develop and launch their business and product ideas. Baiera is also the founder of step2health, which offers proprietary assistive devices for seniors to help them reduce their risk of falls and age in place. The step2health products are sold nationwide with partners like Walmart, Lowe's, Amazon, CVS, Walgreens, and more. He currently lives in San Diego, is married, and has twin boys.

Kelli Slade

Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Relias

Kelli McLean Slade is a native of Durham, NC, and a proud North Carolina A&T State University graduate. With 20+ years of combined experience in DEI and Workforce Development, she has worked in the Raleigh-Durham area with organizations to help close employment and training gaps and intentionally build and grow efforts surrounding diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Slade currently serves as Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion with Relias. She continues to coach individuals on professional and personal development, building more diverse and inclusive environments and being intentional in efforts to build effective teams and organizations. She's a proud member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. and continues to build, empower, and educate individuals in the power they hold.