Minority Health Office OK'd

by Paul Bass | May 7, 2008 8:49 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

The new Health Equity Commission would run out of the Office of the Healthcare Advocate. The state Senate passed a bill to create it. ""We have so far to go to eliminate disparities in health status. Putting together an Equity Commission that gathers a wide diversity of members is critical to solving this crisis," said the advocate, Kevin Lembo. Release here. The state NAACP had called for the office's creation: background story here.