{"id":51121,"date":"2013-10-30T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=51121"},"modified":"2013-10-29T16:23:47","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T20:23:47","slug":"multicultural-scholarship-helps-close-diversity-shortage-gap-in-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=51121","title":{"rendered":"Multicultural Scholarship Helps Close Diversity Shortage Gap in Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"american-heart-logo-black\"<\/a>Macy\u2019s Go Red Multicultural Scholarship Fund continues the retailer\u2019s ongoing support for the Go Red For Women Movement<\/p>\n

(Utica, NY \u2013 Oct. 2013) The American Heart Association\u2019s Go Red For Women <\/i>and Macy\u2019s, its national sponsor, are offering a way to help multicultural students in the medical field cover the rising cost of higher education. Applications are open once again for the Go Red Multicultural Scholarship Fund.<\/p>\n

Le Moyne College student Jainty John was awarded a Go Red Multicultural Scholarship earlier this year. <\/b>Jainty was born in India and lived in Dubai before coming to the Syracuse area and graduating from West Genesee High School. Now she is studying to be a physician\u2019s assistant at Le Moyne College. She says this scholarship gives her the opportunity to focus on her education. \u201cIn the future I wish to dedicate my life to caring for others,\u201d Jainty says, \u201cand this scholarship has only made this dream more possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fund \u2014 now in its third year \u2014 provides $2,500 scholarships for multicultural women pursuing college or graduate school degrees in healthcare fields. Besides easing the financial burden for students, the American Heart Association and its supporters are striving to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in medicine and increase culturally-sensitive, patient-centered care.<\/p>\n

The number of minority medical school graduates is increasing steadily, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges. However, the figures are still low compared with the population at large. For example, among 17,364 medical school graduates in 2011, 1,129 were black (6.5 percent), 1,336 Hispanic (7.6 percent) and 3,767 Asian (21.6 percent).<\/p>\n

Only 5.4 percent of African-American and 3.6 percent of Hispanic nurses in the nation are registered nurses, according to the 2010 Bureau of Labor Statistics. In contrast, minorities make up 36.6 percent of the U.S. population.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuilding a diverse physician and medical workforce is a critical component in the delivery of patient-centered care to the multicultural communities that will enter the healthcare system once the Affordable Care Act is implemented,\u201d said Dr. Jennifer Mieres, senior vice president in the Office of Community and Public Health, chief diversity and inclusion officer for North Shore \u2014 <\/b>LIJ Health <\/b>System and American Heart Association Go Red For Women spokesperson. \u201cThe recruitment of talented, young diverse women into the healthcare field is a critical step in the delivery of quality, culturally-sensitive, patient-centered care.\u201d<\/p>\n

Numerous ethnic groups \u2014 including African-Americans and Hispanics \u2014 are disproportionately affected by cardiovascular disease and risk factors. They also face barriers to diagnosis and care and experience worse health outcomes than Caucasians.<\/p>\n

\u201cPatients like to receive medical care by providers who can speak their same language and understand their cultural background,\u201d said Celia Trigo, executive director and CEO of the National Association of Hispanic Nurses. \u201cMeeting the needs of ethnically diverse patients leads not only to a better quality of care, but it also provides opportunities to improve the health of underserved minorities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Go Red\u2122 Multicultural Scholarship is made possible by the Macy\u2019s Multicultural Fund, which was created in 2009 to focus on increasing diversity in the medical field.\u00a0 Macy\u2019s is a founding national sponsor of the American Heart Association\u2019s Go Red For Women\u00ae and Go Red Por Tu Coraz\u00f3n raising more than $46 million since 2004.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a long-time partner of the American Heart Association\u2019s Go Red for Women Movement and a proud supporter of diversity, Macy\u2019s continues the fight against heart disease in women with the Go Red Multicultural Scholarship Fund,\u201d said Bill Hawthorne, Macy\u2019s senior vice-president of Diversity Strategies.\u00a0 \u201cEncouraging and supporting multiethnic students as they join the ranks of healthcare professionals will more effectively impact the disproportionate rates of heart disease among women in their own communities.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/b>For more information and to complete an application, visit GoRedForWomen.org<\/b><\/a>. The deadline to apply for 2014 scholarships is Dec. 31, 2013<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Macy\u2019s Go Red Multicultural Scholarship Fund continues the retailer\u2019s ongoing support for the Go Red For Women Movement (Utica, NY \u2013 Oct. 2013) The American Heart Association\u2019s Go Red For Women and Macy\u2019s, its national sponsor, are offering a way to help multicultural students in the medical field cover the rising cost of higher education. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}