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OBJECTIVES: Upon completion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
1. Define the current racial/ethnic health care disparities in the United States. Outline the relationship between racial/ethnic health care disparities and hospital admissions.
2. Review the Center of Medicare and Medicaid Services Hospital Readmission Reduction Program and the proposed strategies to prevent hospital readmissions. Divide into the literature to explore the specific racial/ethnic health care disparities that have uncovered by the CMS Hospital Readmission Reduction Program.
3. Discuss the potential strategies in which hospitalists can use to address the racial/ethnic health care disparities but at the same time prevent hospital readmissions. 

FACULTY DISCLOSURE: Tanisha J. Hamilton, MD, MS, FACP has/have no relevant financial relationship(s) with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

PLANNER DISCLOSURE: The planners have no relevant financial relationship(s) with companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

ACCREDITATION: The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

DESIGNATION:  The A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education of Baylor Scott & White Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

ABIM MOC:  Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.0 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

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