
Equitable and Inclusive Organizational Policies
Applying a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) lens to organizational policies and supporting an equitable and inclusive climate and culture.
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Does Your Hospital Reflect the Community It Serves?
02/08/2018
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.
Inclusive, Local Hiring: Building the Pipeline to a Healthy Community
04/25/2018
ACHI and the AHA Workforce Center hosted a webinar on how health systems can develop an inclusive, local hiring pipeline through creating more external community connections and internal career paths.
2022 Accelerating Health Equity Conference
06/07/2021
A time to connect and collaborate to advance community health, well-being, and equity, presented by AHA Community Health Improvement and the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity.
Emerging Strategies to Ensure Access to Health Care Services: Addressing the Social Determinants of Health
09/13/2021
The AHA Task Force on Ensuring Access in Vulnerable Communities examined ways in which the access to and delivery of care could be improved. During that process, the Task Force grappled with the reality that, in vulnerable communities, even if quality care is available, social determinants often prevent individuals from being able to access health care or achieve health goals.
Pathways to Population Health: An Invitation to Health Care Change Agents
09/15/2021
“Pathways to Population Health: An Invitation to Health Care Change Agents” is intended to support health care professionals in identifying opportunities for their organizations to make practical, meaningful, and sustainable advancements in improving the health and well-being of the patients and communities they serve.
Developing Mission, Vision and Values Statements
09/15/2021
Simply put, strategic planning determines where an organization is going over the next year or more, how it's going to get there and how it'll know if it got there or not. The focus of a strategic plan is usually on the entire organization.
Making Health Equity a Strategic Priority
12/01/2021
This resource looks at how making health equity a strategic priority can aid health systems and organizations in achieving equity initiatives.
Outside-In Strategies: Breaking Down Barriers to Employment
12/01/2021
This resource looks at the benefits of hiring locally by creating a system of entry points for applicants that normally face barriers to this work.
Inside-Up Strategies: Connecting Front-line Workers to Pathways for Career Advancement
12/01/2021
This toolkit focuses on ways to ensure employees are receiving access to career advancement opportunities. This ensures local hires grow in their work and there is a pathway to greater experience and support that will benefit the company and hospital as a whole through employee investment.
Building Capacity: Growing Capacity of Existing Businesses as well as Helping to Incubate New Ones
12/01/2021
Capacity building with a focus on the local business community can help address supply chain gaps, meet product needs, and improve the efficiency and resiliency of the supply chain. Such initiatives can bring in additional funding and create job opportunities for local communities which experience barriers to employment.
How to Develop a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative
12/07/2021
This article outlines the four phases of developing a DEI initiative in the workplace which is further broken down into 9 steps. It emphasizes the need for the organization and its leaders to track their goals and progress made by the diverse groups. In addition, the recommendations the group makes to senior leadership must also be tracked to track progress.
Purchasing — Inclusive, Local Sourcing: Purchasing for People and Place
01/04/2022
This toolkit on local and diverse purchasing showcases examples of how hospitals and health systems are reevaluating their roles as their community’s largest purchasers, understanding that a thriving local economy is fundamental to a healthy community.
Purchasing: Readiness Checklist
01/04/2022
Do a basic assessment of where your institution is at, and identify the steps you need to take to implement an inclusive, local sourcing initiative.
Purchasing: Simple Policy Fixes
01/04/2022
Simple Policy Fixes for Inclusive sourcing and purchasing.
Purchasing: Quick Practice Upgrades
01/04/2022
Simple Practices to Create Equitable and Inclusive Sourcing and Purchasing Pipeline.
Investment — Place-Based Investing: Creating Sustainable Returns and Strong Communities
01/04/2022
This toolkit outlines a range of strategies for how health systems are using their investment assets to help address the resource gaps that keep communities from achieving better health and well-being.
Race Equity and Inclusion Action Guide — Annie E. Casey Foundation
01/04/2022
7 Steps to Advance and Embed Race Equity.
Implicit Association Test
01/04/2022
The Implicit Association Test (IAT) measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. The IAT may be especially interesting if it shows that you have an implicit attitude that you did not know about.
Mobilizing toward health equity: Action steps for health care organizations, Perspectives of health care CEOs and leadership executives
01/06/2022
Health care organizations are on the front lines of addressing health equity, playing key roles in not only access and care delivery, but also as employers and as community members. Discover strategies for organizations to address health equity within their organizations and the communities they serve.