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Building Board Readiness for Health Equity
07/10/2024
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.
It Starts at the Top: How Boards Can Prioritize Health Equity
07/10/2024
Ensuring equitable access to quality care is part of the responsibility of hospital and health system boards to serve their communities.
Trends in Health Equity Legislation by State and Implications for Healthcare Organizations
07/10/2024
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.
AI and Health Equity: How Health System Boards Can Mitigate Risks and Advance Benefits
07/10/2024
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.
Advancing Equity in the Workplace: Five Questions Health System Boards Should Ask Leaders
07/10/2024
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.
Designated Inclusion Advocate for Meetings
07/10/2024
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.
Organizational Health Equity Checklist
07/10/2024
This checklist was developed based on ASTHO's Foundational Practices for Health Equity, and is designed to support organizational improvement in advancing health equity.
Health Equity Crosswalk
07/10/2024
HANYS’ new Health Equity crosswalk provides a single reference point for a variety of federal government and national hospital equity measures, standards and requirements.
Culturally Appropriate Care Compendium
07/10/2024
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.
HANYS Health Equity Task Force Priorities: Quick Guide
07/10/2024
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
07/10/2024
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.
Racial Equity Data Road Map
07/10/2024
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.
Health Equity Action Plan Toolkit
07/10/2024
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.
REP-EQUITY Toolkit Checklist
07/09/2024
Checklist to help researchers move towards representative and equitable inclusion in clinical research.
Applying Social Determinants of Health Indicator Data for Advancing Health Equity
07/09/2024
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.
A Practical Guide for Implementing the Digital Healthcare Equity Framework
07/09/2024
This guide will help you implement an evidence- and consensus-based framework for improving patient outcomes and advancing healthcare equity.
Health Disparities Collaborative Learning Community Resources: Recruitment Subgroup
07/09/2024
This toolkit presents options for residency program directors to reinforce GME recruitment more consistently with regards to diversity.
Building a Governing Board Strategy on Diversity and Health Equity
05/03/2024
Nine executives and board members interviews describing how their organizations are prioritizing diversity and health equity with actionable results.
Boardroom Brief: It Starts at the Top: How Boards Can Prioritize Health Equity
01/15/2024
Trustees are in a unique leadership position for overseeing a health equity strategy for their hospitals and health systems.
Working Towards Health Equity in the Rural Space
08/18/2023
Health equity is a discussion that is often framed only around race, but it means so much more.
Crosswalk of AHA Health Equity Roadmap with Selected National Health Equity Quality Measures and Standards for Hospitals and Health Systems
05/24/2023
AHA members have expressed interest in understanding the degree of alignment between the AHA’s Health Equity Roadmap and CMS's three new quality measures, as well as the alignment among regulatory policies. The crosswalk identifies how each framework aligns with eight overarching key practices that are linked to advancing health equity in hospitals.
Societal Factors That Influence Health
01/11/2023
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 determinants 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 determinants of health.
Equity Through Precision Heart Care with Cleerly, Inc. and Lee Health System
06/17/2022
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.
AWS’ Latest Accelerator Aims to Give a Boost to Health-Equity Startups
06/07/2022
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.
Digital Health Equity
05/11/2022
As digital health continues to expand, hospitals and health care systems will need a digital health equity strategy to ensure that all their patients can access needed medical and social services.