

Founded in 1898, the AHA provides education for health care leaders and is a source of information on health care issues and trends. Close to 5,000 hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers of care and 40,000 individual members come together to form the AHA. The American Hospital Association (AHA) is the national organization that represents and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks, and their patients and communities. Samaritan Regional Health System - Ashland, Ohio Pocono Medical Center - East Stroudsburg, Pa. Munson Medical Center - Traverse City, Mich. Joseph's Hospital Health Center - Syracuse, N.Y. Riverside Health System - Newport News, Va. Northern Michigan Regional Hospital - Petoskey, Mich.

Lehigh Valley Health Network - Allentown, Pa. Greenville Hospital System University Medical Center - Greenville, S.C. “It takes a long-term commitment to excellence through the use of technology to be among the Most Wired hospitals in the country and CareTech Solutions is honored to be the IT partner of choice to help these hospitals improve their performance.”Ĭancer Treatment Centers of America - Schaumburg, Ill.ĬentraState Healthcare System - Freehold, N.J.Ĭrittenton Hospital Medical Center - Rochester, Mich. “Congratulations to our Most Wired Clients,” said Jim Giordano, president and CEO, CareTech Solutions. “It takes a long-term commitment to excellence through the use of technology to be among the Most Wired hospitals in the country and CareTech Solutions is honored to be the IT partner of choice to help these hospitals improve their performance.” The nation’s Most Wired hospitals are leveraging the adoption and use of health IT to improve performance in a number of areas, according to the survey. hospitals, announced today that 18 of the company’s clients are 2012 Most Wired Survey winners and two more were named Most Improved in the annual survey published in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks magazine. Findings from the present study highlight the benefits and challenges Black therapists encounter when working in cross-racial dyads and provide implications for multicultural training.CareTech Solutions, an information technology (IT) and Web products and services provider for more than 200 U.S. Qualitative results highlighted 29 themes regarding the impact of racial dynamics on the counseling process. To examine the second research question, the Discovery-Oriented Approach (Mahrer, 1988) was utilized with qualitative responses from 27 therapist participants. These results may suggest that participants in this sample had positive, stable racial identity and that these therapists enjoyed their work with White clients regardless of challenges faced. On the Therapist Response Questionnaire (Betan et al., 2005), means were generally low across themes, with the exception of Positive countertransference. On the Black Racial Identity Attitudes Scale (Helms, 1990), mean comparisons did not appear to vary significantly based on themes however, participants generally had high scores on the Internalization subscale. Therefore, a descriptive analysis of mean comparisons based on primary themes in the qualitative data was performed. Utilizing a mixed-method design, two research questions guided the present study: (a) Does Black racial identity predict countertransference reactions experienced by Black therapists when working with White clients? (b) What are the benefits and challenges that Black therapists self-report when working with White clients? A multivariate multiple regression analysis was proposed to examine the first research question however, this analysis was not conducted due to an insufficiently low sample size (N=28). responses) to one another based on their racial identity and socialization experiences all of which may affect the therapeutic process. Each member within this dyad may have a number of transferences or countertransferences (i.e. The racial dynamics and sociopolitical history of the United States create a unique context for the Black therapist-White client counseling dyad. The Black Therapist-White Client Counseling Dyad: The Relationship Between Black Racial Identity and Countertransference
