Eliminating Disparities in Health Outcomes

Examples
from the Field

• Adventist HealthCare - Center on Health Disparities
• Cambridge Health Alliance - Breast Health Initiative
• Harborview Medical Center - Community House Calls
• Kaiser Permanente - Addressing Diabetes Among the Latino Population
• Massachusetts General Hospital - The Disparities Solutions Center
• Memorial Healthcare System - Achieving Cardiac Excellence
• Montefiore Medical Center -  Standardizing Data Collection to Capture Patient Demographics
• Overlook Hospital - Breast Health Outreach
• Sinai-Grace Hospital – Addressing Disparities in Cardiac Care Among African American Populations
• Truman Medical Centers - Sickle Cell Disease Clinic  
• Venice Family Clinic - Diabetes Care Management Program
• Whittier Institute for Diabetes - Project Dulce

Resources

• Leadership and workforce diversity
• Improving language access to health services
• Eliminating barriers to health care
• Defining the problem
• Improving cultural competency

Tools

HRET Disparities Toolkit
www.hretdisparities.org