Align and Embrace Cultivates Culture

Addressing the challenges many clinicians face practicing cultural humility

Align and Embrace helps organizations overcome the obstacles that hinder the development of a culturally informed and responsive environment. These challenges include:

  • Resistance to change: We help organizations navigate the inertia that often accompanies change, fostering a culture of adaptability and continuous improvement.

  • Unconscious bias: We provide training and support to identify and address unconscious biases, promoting equity and fairness in healthcare delivery.

  • Communication barriers: We facilitate the development of effective communication strategies that bridge linguistic and cultural divides, ensuring patients receive clear and understandable information.

  • Lack of representation: We advocate for diversifying the healthcare workforce, creating an environment where patients can connect with providers who share their cultural backgrounds.

  • Inadequate policies and procedures: We assist organizations in developing and implementing policies and guidelines that embody cultural sensitivity and responsiveness.

  • Lack of trust: We help organizations build trust with diverse communities, fostering a sense of belonging and empowering patients to engage actively in their care.

The Benefits of Cultural Humility

Partnering with us to cultivate a culture embedded with humility as a practice leads to the following:

  • Higher-quality care: Culturally responsive providers deliver more effective and personalized care, tailoring their approach to each patient's unique needs and preferences.

  • Improved patient outcomes: Patients who feel understood and respected are more likely to adhere to treatment plans, leading to better health outcomes and reduced healthcare disparities.

  • Sustainability in a diverse healthcare landscape: By embracing cultural humility, organizations can adapt to the changing demographics of the patient population, ensuring their long-term success.

Services Offered

  • Cultural Assessment

    We will help you identify and understand the current culture and identify opportunities to expand the presence of cultural humility.This allows us to explore areas for desired change to enhance organizational capacity to provide effective person-centered care, resulting in improved health outcomes and organizational impact.

  • Visioning

    We will work with you to develop a vision for embedding cultural humility into the organizational culture and practices.

  • Culture Cultivation Planning

    We will design a customized culture cultivation plan for instituting a sustainable culture shift tailored to your organization's needs.

  • Implementation Support

    We will help you to implement your organization's tailor-made culture cultivation plan, which includes supporting your educators, clinicians, and staff throughout the process with the following where appropriate:

    Custom Workshops, Group Courageous Conversations, Community of Practice, Align and Embrace Clinicans for Cultures Community

  • Evaluation and Monitoring

    We will help you track progress toward your desired culture and adjust your plan as needed.

  • Sustainability

    Identify and select champions within the organization that can be trained to maintain and elevate the work that has been established. Ongoing consultation with leadership and champions to support sustainability.

  • Align and Embrace Approach

    Leveraging Adult Learning Theory and Implementation Science, we integrate evidence-based research and best practices to create culturally responsive frameworks, training curricula, and workshops. This comprehensive approach deepens knowledge and enhances the application skills necessary for clinicians to partner and collaborate with patients from culturally diverse communities. As a result, clinicians are empowered to provide effective patient-centered care, improving health outcomes and health equity for all individuals.

Benefits

Our Commitment

Align and Embrace is committed to helping organizations create a culture of cultural humility where every patient feels respected, understood, and valued. We can work together to build a more equitable healthcare system by addressing the challenges and embracing the benefits of operationalizing cultural humility. Align and Embrace helps address the systemic barriers that hinder culturally informed and responsive care.

We encourage organizations that educated and employe clinicians to join the Clinicians for Cultures movement to solidify a commitment to a sustainable shift that uplifts cultural humility.

We believe that cultural humility is not just a healthcare imperative; it is a societal imperative. Let us work together to create a world where cultural humility is a practice and a way of life.