The Countdown Begins

The totally re-tooled Diversity HealthWorks re-launches on September 18th. That is a powerful day for my family in that my brother, Larry, who we lost in December 2004, was born on that day.

Larry had a stroke and died at age 40. The launch of the site is dedicated to him, one because he was my biggest fan :-) and two because the bottom line premise for Diversity HealthWorks as a vehicle is the elimination of health disparities/health equity. Larry died with many years of potential life left to give his energy to the world. Diversity HealthWorks is a stand to reduce years of potential life lost towards the achievement of health equity.

A little about Diversity HealthWorks:
Diversity HealthWorks™ is a comprehensive resource for healthcare professionals, educational institutions, organizations, and employers to utilize in meeting their respective employment, recruitment, informational, training, and educational needs.

First launched in 2005, Diversity HealthWorks was created to be the destination portal for healthcare talent management. Our premise is that diversity and talent management are integral parts of one another and cannot exist separately. Given this premise, we believe that if an organization intends to be a competitive and innovative market leader, cultivating top talent, diversity must be a central theme in its pursuit of success.

Diversity HealthWorks is the first on-line resource dedicated entirely to careers, employer branding, and the generation of information focused exclusively on diversity and cultural competency in health and healthcare. At the foundation of our mission is the creation of health equity and the elimination of disparities in health outcomes focusing on the workforce as central to the achievement of this goal.

Diversity HealthWorks features the following components:
-- Traditional Job board with wide variety of healthcare jobs from allied health and nursing to public health and research
-- Comprehensive resource (www.healthculturedepot.com), edited and contributed to by professionals focused on cultural competency and diversity in healthcare, disparities/health equity, and current issues
-- Features and best-practices in the healthcare industry
-- Pod casts, web seminars
-- Monthly and bi-weekly publications with interviews, current news and notes across the diversity and healthcare space, and opportunities to get involved

More to come on Diversity HealthWorks, stay tuned!