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Leveraging a Bilingual Clinical Workforce for COVID-19 Care

by Susan Carr • December 23, 2020 • 0 Comments

Editor’s note: Dr. Joseph Betancourt, who led the effort described below, frequently uses social media and presentations to to convey what he observes and has learned about the overlapping pandemics of health disparities and COVID-19. In addition to the article below, interested readers will find many offerings that feature Dr. Betancourt on YouTube, including “Structural […]

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Leveraging a Bilingual Clinical Workforce for COVID-19 Care

by Susan Carr • June 24, 2020 • 0 Comments

As the coronavirus pandemic approached Massachusetts earlier this year, a multidisciplinary team at Mass General Brigham (formerly Partners HealthCare) worked to anticipate and address ways in which health inequities would play a role in the expected surge of patients with COVID-19. A key priority for the team, known as Equity and Community Health COVID Response, […]