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Integration of Care: Reducing Barriers to Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Mary Thompson, president at Trillium Place and member of AHA’s Committee on Behavioral Health, shares her experience working in the largest mental health and addiction recovery organization in central Illinois.
In 2024, data will drive IFDHE’s discussions on health equity
For the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, 2024 can be summed up in a single phrase: “letting the data speak and guide us.”
The Health Equity Roadmap: One Year Later
In March 2022, the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity (IFDHE) launched the Health Equity Roadmap, a national framework to advance health equity in hospi
Case study highlights Equity of Care Award winner Main Line Health’s data collection efforts
Main Line Health’s strategic collection and utilization of data, as well as its initiatives to improve the health of communities of color, earned the health system the AHA’s 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award in the Transforming Category.
To Measure or Not to Measure: Overcoming Benchmarking Anxiety
With the biennial DEI benchmark survey now available through March 15, read AHA’s Leon Caldwell’s blog addressing the hesitancy related to taking the survey, as well as strategies to manage said anxieties. For questions related to your participation in the survey, please contact AHA’s survey support team at surveysupport@aha.org.
AHA blog: Reducing Barriers to Behavioral Health and Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Mary Thompson — a member of AHA’s Committee on Behavioral Health and president of Trillium Place, a mental health and addiction recovery organization affiliated with Carle Health — explains how the Illinois-based organization works to integrate physical and behavioral health services to improve access to care among historically underrepresented communities and eliminate health disparities.
Case study: A look at Equity of Care Award winner AnMed’s community engagement strategies
AnMed’s dedication to implementing language services and community engagement strategies to eliminate health care disparities and improve patient quality outcomes led to the organization earning the 2024 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award in the Small/Rural Hospital Excellence category.
Taking Big Steps for Improving Maternal and Child Health
In this Spotlight Feature interview, Jean Ricci Goodman, M.D., and Aparna Sharma, M.D., discuss the program’s development and how it’s designed to improve maternal and child health in Loyola’s surrounding communities.
Survey: Health care discrimination a problem for patients, workers of color
About half of U.S. health care workers have witnessed racial discrimination against patients and say discrimination against patients is a crisis or major problem, according to a survey released Feb. 15 by the Commonwealth Fund and African American Research Collaborative.
Blog: AHA Launches the Health Equity Roadmap – We Asked One of Its Architects Why It’s a Big Deal
We spoke with Leon D. Caldwell, AHA’s senior director for health equity strategies and innovation and one of the Health Equity Roadmap’s architects, about its importance to hospitals and health systems.