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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.

The role of the physical environment in communication between health-care professionals and persons with communication problems is a neglected area. This study provides an overview of factors in the physical environment that play a role in communication during conversations between people who are communication vulnerable and health-care professionals.

This resource provide simple practices that health professionals can incorporate to develop skills around speaking respectfully about disability.

The purpose of this tool is to ensure equity by creating a lens through which each Healthy King County Coalition Workgroup better understands who is impacted by our policies and practices.

This toolkit provides step by step guides on how to create a strategic plan with diversity, equity, and inclusion in mind.

This article covers implicit bias on a basic level, noting its role in policies and patient care while beginning to look at ways to reduce implict bias.

This blog post offers an overview on how to assess your organization's DEI understanding so they can make a plan to move forward in the work. This organization also links to multiple resources on DEI training, including webinars, a resource library, and success stories.

This article presents challenges and offer recommendations for facilitating the process of eliminating health disparities and achieving health equity across diverse populations.

This guidebook offers a section on why investing in communities is necessary for the benefit of the overall health of local populations and in encouraging accountability. The guidebook encourages the involvement of leaders in the local community.

In this moment of profound challenge and opportunity, keeping equity at the center is critical. Supporting leaders of color is a fundamental step in this process. Here are a few ways nonprofit boards and their organizations can build structures and practices to attract, hire, and retain successful CEOs and other C-suite leaders of color.

This tool provides in overview of how can you build a stronger board. According to Leading with Intent, racial diversity on nonprofit boards is lacking. Download this document to learn: how the composition of nonprofit boards compares to the country as a whole ways to better connect to the community your organization serves what questions you can ask to start thinking about diversifying your board

This tool provides the do's and don'ts on the level involvement of the chief executive be in the recruitment process. While the board is ultimately responsible for recruiting and selecting new board members, the chief executive also plays an important role in the process. Including information from Recruiting a Stronger Board, this resource explains when CEOs should be involved and when they need to take a step back.

This report surveyed members of the National Association for Health Services Executives on their experiences working in health care, organizational priorities and strategies around DE&I, and opportunities in career advancement. The report recognized the need for policy change at the internal level as well as the federal and state policy level. Internally, connecting with communities and creating a strong internal strucutre were imperative.

This guide is intended as a resource for effective dialogue about work with communities, with the overarching goal of beginning to collectively explore the vision, assets and commonalities that will help build a movement for positive and lasting social change towards a more just and equitable society.

This worksheet looks at best practices for building leadership diversity programs through various case studies. Cases vary by career level and touch on topics such as hiring for new roles and diversity committees.

This toolkit focuses on developing diversity and inclusion leadership strategies at the board level. It also encourages significant governance changes throughout health care organizations.

This toolkit focuses on training and education strategies and approaches to encourage cultural humility and overcome implicit bias.

The purpose of this resource booklet is to: Tell the story of how our anti-racist organizational change project started. Share some of the resources we’ve found and developed along the way. Provide guidance on how other nonprofits can start their own process.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This resource looks at how making health equity a strategic priority can aid health systems and organizations in achieving equity initiatives.

The Health Research and Educational Trust Disparities Toolkit is a Web-based tool that provides hospitals, health systems, clinics, and health plans information and resources for systematically collecting race, ethnicity, and primary language data from patients.