Equity. 5 best, worst states for healthcare in 2022

Equity or diversity & inclusion.

What is so unique about the STATES in the ratings?

From disasters, crisis, and emergencies to healthcare there is pattern of inequity. 

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To identify the best and worst states for healthcare, analysts compared the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 42 different measures of healthcare cost, access and outcomes.

The metrics ranged from average hospital expenses per inpatient day to share of patients readmitted to hospitals. Read more about the methodology here.

                        https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/rankings-and-ratings/5-best-worst-states-for-healthcare-in-2022.html 

Here are the five states with the highest overall ranking across cost, access and outcomes, according to the analysis:

Rhode Island Massachusetts Hawaii Minnesota Maryland

Here are the bottom five states on healthcare cost, access and outcomes combined:

Mississippi Alabama Louisiana Oklahoma Arkansas

 

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Proactive Emergency Management: Basic Sheltering. Watch "Facing Eviction (full documentary) | FRONTLINE" on YouTube

Thank you Rudy (Rudy Arredondo\latinofarmers)
 
……and Brandon, keep doing what you’re doing in the shelters in Montgomery County.

https://youtu.be/XBVshMTOF8

 

• Equity across the board for all citizens for basic necessities (shelter\housing, water, food).

• Failures in each of the areas: 

• Sheltering\housing (rising rental costs, property taxes, heating and cooling costs)

• Water & Food insecurity (not affordable and lack of) for basic nutrition.

• Emergency management must take into consideration the number of reported individuals and families in recovery\homeless in planning for sheltering during times of crisis.

Black Emergency Managers Association International    Washington, D.C.  20020 bEMA International Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)   A 501 (c) 3 organization   “We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today.  We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now.  In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late.  Procrastination is still the thief of time.  Life often leaves us standing bare, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity.  This may well be mankind’s last chance to choose between chaos or community.”  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Where Are We Going From Here:  Chaos or Community’.

USDA’s 5th Annual 2501 Program Symposium Sponsored by USDA Office of Partnership and Public Engagement

 

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bEMA International Cooperation, Collaboration, Communication, Coordination, Community engagement, and  Partnering (C5&P)   A 501 (c) 3 organization   We must act as if we answer to, and only answer to, our ancestors, our children, and the unborn. — Amilcar Cabra

Those who advocate for 'EQUITY'. Bringing Civil Rights to the 'Last Plantation' - The Washington Post

[...Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Vernon Parker said he couldn't help but see the old man when he looked into the eyes of black farmers during a meeting several weeks ago in Mississippi. Black and other minority farmers have complained about discrimination in agriculture for nearly a century.

They were denied loans that white farmers got, illegally stripped of their land and shut out of the federal agriculture assistance system by a series of tactics. 

The number of black farmers has fallen dramatically, from nearly 1 million in 1920 to about 15,000 today.

As of December, the USDA has paid $634 million to nearly 13,000 black farmers as part of a discrimination settlement, according to the department's Web site. 

But the settlement represents only a fraction of the number of court complaints by minority farmers against the department.]...

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/06/18/bringing-civil-rights-to-the-last-plantation/7a080e9f-4966-44e0-bb72-f622ea87f462/

 

 

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