Black representation in the boardrooms of health care organizations remains insufficient to help meet the needs of the communities they serve despite modest progress made in recent years, according to a new analysis from the nonprofit Black Directors Health Equity Agenda.
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The analysis from BDHEA – a coalition of corporate leaders that aims to curb crucial disparities impacting Black people and communities – found that the proportion of U.S. hospital and health system boards with at least one nonwhite board member increased from 53% in 2014 to 68% in 2022. Drawing on publicly available data and conducted in partnership with the EY Center for Health Equity, it also states that the average number of hospital board members who identified as part of a racial or ethnic minority group increased from 1.2 to 1.6 from 2011 to 2021.
At the same time, Black individuals recently made up only 12% of board members based on a scan of the 50 largest provider organizations by annual revenue, according to the report – close to but still shy of the 14% Black representation in the U.S. population. Among........