Healthcare organization  in promoting diversity, equity, and cultural competency

How good a job does your healthcare organization do  in promoting diversity, equity, and cultural competency? In this assignment, you’ll evaluate your organization’s performance and develop recommendations for improvement.

Answer the self-assessment questions in Building a Culturally Competent Organization: The Quest for Equity in Health Care (Links to an external site.). Analyze the results. Some of the questions might not apply to your organization; answer the ones that do.

Write a 1000 to 1500 word business brief (Links to an external site.) for your leadership that addresses the following:

Describe the importance of a culturally competent workforce in meeting the needs of patients. How does it affect outcomes for patients? Analyze your organization’s assessment outcomes. Don’t describe every item on the checklist; synthesize (Links to an external site.) the results and present the main findings for each section. Include an assessment of strengths, weaknesses, and opportunities. Based on your analysis, develop a cultural competency improvement plan for your organization based on one of the models described in The Need for Cultural Competency in Health Care (Links to an external site.). In a business brief for leadership, recommend actions your organization should take to increase diversity and cultural competence and to eliminate healthcare disparities.

Support your perspective using evidence-based information from at least 3 authoritative sources.