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Community Investment for Health: An Overview for Trustees | Center
Includes questions for boards to determine overall strategy and community investment strategies that address societal factors influencing health.
UnidosUS Alliance Case Study: Lurie Children’s Hospital Community Collaborative Advances Health Equity
With the goal of addressing issues impacting child health comprehensively and collaboratively, NWSHC and Lurie Children’s Hospital partnered to develop and implement community-driven related to child health and well-being.
Does Your Hospital Reflect the Community It Serves?
This toolkit provides checklists to assess the organization's diversity (inclusing leadership), workforce diversity, and patient care while providing action steps to move toward being a more diverse organization. The toolkit also provides case studies of various hospitals who took initatives toward becoming more diverse and their outcomes.
Case Study — Community Collaboration During COVID-19: Reaching Hmong and Latino Residents in a Rural Setting
In rural north central Wisconsin, local and state organizations are working together to communicate important health information with the Hmong and Latino communities. Key approaches include building on existing partnerships and relationships, identifying community liaisons to help build trust and share accurate information, and using technology effectively.
UAMS Health | Arkansas
Since 1879, the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has been a fixture in Little Rock, Arkansas. UAMS Health is on a mission to improve the health and well-being of Little Rock residents and patients across the entire state through its statewide health system.
Societal Factors that Influence Health: A Framework for Hospitals
Focusing on societal factors benefits patient care and serves as an avenue to meet hospitals’ strategic goals including advancing equity, improving quality and outcomes, reducing costs, and building community engagement and trust.
4 Keys to Accelerate Health Equity
Professionals focused on improving community and population health and building partnerships, and those striving to advance diversity and inclusion within hospital management and executive levels recently convened at the third annual AHA Accelerating Health Equity Conference.
Answering the Call Through DEI Measures: UnityPoint Health – Trinity’s Story
How UnityPoint Health and its community partners addressed health disparities.
SBH Health System | New York
St. Barnabas Hospital was founded as the Home for the Incurables in the Bronx in 1866 to care for chronically ill individuals who lived in New York City. Now known as the SBH Health System, it is committed to improving the health and wellness of its community and is dedicated to providing the highest quality care in a compassionate, comprehensive, and safe environment where patients always come first, regardless of their ability to pay.
Equity of Care Awards Case Study: Meritus Health
Meritus Health’s commitment to eliminating disparities and inequities within the community it serves has earned the health system national recognition, being awarded with AHA's 2023 Carolyn Boone Lewis Equity of Care Award in the Transforming category.