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Monterey County’s rural hospital, Mee Memorial in King City, is one of six organizations in the country selected to learn strategies for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care.
Its leadership team will take part in the one-year Disparities Leadership Program now in its 15th year. It’s the first program of its kind in the U.S., led by the Disparities Solutions Center based in Boston. The program is designed to equip leaders at hospitals, health insurance plans, and other healthcare organizations with strategies to overcome inequalities.
Last year Mee Memorial unveiled a new mission statement that says it is “committed to providing culturally sensitive and patient-centered healthcare, delivered with the highest quality of service.” The latest data shows the population in Mee Memorial’s service area is 70 percent Latino, and 54.5 percent of the population lives under the federal poverty level.
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