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Advancing health equity requires that your board of trustees align on the key efforts required to align policies, resources and programs. This survey on Board Readiness for Health Equity can be completed by trustees to establish a sense of how the Board views health equity in four key areas of focus.

Ensuring equitable access to quality care is part of the responsibility of hospital and health system boards to serve their communities.

As state statutes and programs to advance health equity proliferate, our interactive map and report provide insights into requirements for organizations and opportunities to accelerate progress.

How should organizations harness AI’s transformative potential without creating unintended, adverse consequences? We offer steps to help establish guardrails, collaborations, and strategies for use.

Cultivating equity in an organization’s workforce is essential for improving health equity for the community. These key questions can help boards promote equity and inclusion for the workforce.

This is a guide for leaders who would like to hold more productive and inclusive meetings. This one page handout features creating a role for a volunteer to serve as the Designated Inclusion Advocate.

This checklist was developed based on ASTHO's Foundational Practices for Health Equity, and is designed to support organizational improvement in advancing health equity.

HANYS’ new Health Equity crosswalk provides a single reference point for a variety of federal government and national hospital equity measures, standards and requirements.

Prepared by the HANYS Health Equity Task Force’s Culturally Appropriate Care subgroup, this compendium explores four recommended steps to ensure organizations are providing culturally appropriate care.

The HANYS Health Equity Task Force Priorities: Quick Guide covers compelling reasons for healthcare leaders to invest in advancing health equity.

The Health Equity Tracker from the Satcher Health Leadership Institute aims to address health disparities in the United States by identifying at-risk populations and highlighting data inequities.

The tool was initially conceptualized to meet the needs of epidemiologists and data analysts, but through its development over the past few years, the team expanded the guide to be applicable to anyone who is working in a program that collects data, from large datasets to small Excel spreadsheets.

This toolkit includes interventions, policies, and programs identified through a landscape scan and interviews that stakeholders can deploy to achieve racially and ethnically equitable health systems.

Checklist to help researchers move towards representative and equitable inclusion in clinical research.

The purpose of this guide is to show local health department (LHD) epidemiologists, data analysts, and other professionals how to collect, analyze, and display a prioritized list of social determinant of health living condition (SDOH-LC) indicators and frame these data in the context of neighborhood mortality, morbidity, and social conditions.

This guide will help you implement an evidence- and consensus-based framework for improving patient outcomes and advancing healthcare equity.

This toolkit presents options for residency program directors to reinforce GME recruitment more consistently with regards to diversity.

AHA presents a framework to support hospitals and health systems and actions they can take at each level (structural, community, personal) to improve health equity. Numerous studies have demonstrated a link between the social drivers of health and key health outcomes. AHA has worked to promote widespread use of ICD-10-CM codes that enable provider to collect data on the social drivers of health

Dr. Leon D. Caldwell, Senior Director, Health Equity Strategies and Innovation, in the Institute of Diversity and Health Equity at the AHA, sits down with Dr. James Min, CEO and Co-founder of AHA Associate, Cleerly, as well as Dr. Richard Chazal, Senior Cardiologist and Medical Director of the Heart & Vascular Institute at Lee Health System.

Roundtrip’s continuing development can be traced in part to AWS’ Health Equity Initiative, a three-year $40 million commitment to help its health care customers develop cloud-based solutions to reduce health disparities.

Across health systems, equity, diversity and inclusion may require varying degrees of resources based on a hospital’s leadership, staff resources, geography and demographics. Here are recommendations to engage the hospitals in your system.

Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services is key to advancing health equity, improving patient safety and quality of care and eliminating health disparities. This literature overview provides a series of resources intended to guide and empower efforts to reach this critical milepost.

Now is the time to evaluate how far we have come in closing gaps in health disparities, assess where health care is on the equity journey and take what we’ve learned to strengthen our organizations and communities through collaborative and innovative work — by investing in our neighborhoods and one another.

Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Health Equity Roadmap — an innovative framework to support hospitals and health systems in their efforts to become more equitable organizations and dismantle structural barriers to health and overall well-being.

In 2018, the Alliance formed a Racial Equity Network (REN) of local and state systems and program leaders and advocates to inspire more engagement about best practices, data collection, and action steps at the systems level.