Reducing Healthcare Disparities
Today, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) released the first in a planned series of reports that will identify “social risk factors” affecting the health outcomes of Medicare beneficiaries, and methods to account for these factors in Medicare payment programs like the Hospital Readmission…
AHA comments regarding HHS' proposed rule on nondiscrimination in health programs and activities.
AHA comments regarding Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) proposed rule on
By adopting a supplier diversity program, hospitals and health care systems can support minority-owned businesses and communities while obtaining products and services of competitively high quality and value.
This collection of case studies from the field highlights diversity initiatives at six hospitals across the country.
Call to Action to Eliminate Health Disparities
This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care disparities and ensure hospital leadership reflect the communities they serve.
This infographic outlines why hospital leaders should use REAL data and provides a five-step framework to begin stratification.
In 2013, the Connecticut Multicultural State Partnership, a non-profit health advocacy group, received a federal grant to specifically address racial and ethnic health disparities by increasing the adoption and implementation of the The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically…
This guide provides a framework for hospitals and care systems to stratify patient race, ethnicity and language data and use them to identify and address health care disparities. In the guide you will find sample dashboards and outlined steps.