Reducing Healthcare Disparities
This week is Black Maternal Health Week, and April is National Minority Health Month. It鈥檚 an opportunity to 鈥渄eepen the conversation鈥 about black maternal health in the U.S. and to highlight the 鈥渋mportant role individuals and organizations can play鈥 in helping to reduce health disparities and鈥
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鈥檝e learned to strengthen our organizations and communities through collaborative and innovative work 鈥 by investing in our neighborhoods and one鈥
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the forefront health inequities and further highlighted how societal factors influence health.
Maternal health is a priority for U.S hospitals and health systems. This downloadable PowerPoint presentation shares facts and highlights some of the challenges hospitals face and how they鈥檙e tackling them.
Humana states it will operate up to 260 CenterWell or Conviva care centers in medically underserved areas by year end. The insurer, which now operates 200 primary care clinics in nine states, plans to expand into Texas, Oklahoma and Arizona.
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.
This article offers a much needed path to equity in healthcare. It amplifies the fact that measured data allows for dedicated improvements and changes to occur and engaging communities and obtaining their feedback and needs is integral to implementing effective, lasting change.
This white paper provides guidance on how health care organizations can reduce health disparities related to racial or ethnic group; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory, or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; or鈥
The authors conducted a literature review of academic, foundation, and government publications focusing on sociocultural barriers to care, the level of the health care system at which a given barrier occurs, and cultural competence efforts that address these barriers. A framework of organizational鈥
Action Planning is a critical step in collectively advancing equity and dismantling structural barriers (e.g., racism, sexism, ageism, etc.) in hospitals and health care systems. This Transformation Action Planner is for hospitals at Transforming on the Community Collaboration for Solutions鈥