Fortune: Hospitals want to reduce racial and socioeconomic disparities in health. Let`s start measuring their progress
(World News Science)

The world lost a true icon and a tireless advocate for community health and equity last year. As CEO of Kaiser Permanente, Bernard Tyson had a vision not just for healthier patients, but for a healthier and more just community. He recognized that hospitals and health systems can go beyond taking care of patients with serious illness and improve health outcomes by tackling such issues as violence, food insecurity, homelessness, and inequitable access to education and economic opportunity. Bernard`s mission was to think not only of the 11 million members of Kaiser`s health plans, hospitals, and health systems at that time, but rather to look at the 65 million people who live in its surrounding...