Employers and HR leaders spend the majority of their working hours ensuring their benefits are serving the greatest number of employees. But leaders may be missing a few critical gaps.
In this week’s top stories, racial bias continues to impact Black and BIPOC health, and employee wellness overall. From birth outcomes to lung and kidney health, physicians are operating on outdated and biased assumptions that can harm a large demographic of patients, explains Dr. Jayne Morgan, cardiologist and clinical director of the COVID task force at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Along with an expiring provision that would end vaccine access at pharmacies across half of the U.S., more must be done to create equitable access to healthcare.
