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The Road to Health Equity Must Encompass a Strategy for Equitable Digital Health
05/11/2022
Edmondo Robinson, M.D., MBA, MS, FACP, senior vice president and chief digital officer at Moffitt Cancer Center spoke with Julia Resnick, director of strategic initiatives at the American Hospital Association about how Moffitt’s approach to digital health improves equity for the patients they serve.
Applying an Equity Lens to Digital Health
05/11/2022
Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital solutions, including mobile health apps, patient portals and telehealth serve as a critical access point for health care providers to reach patients.
Blog: Time to Act: National Minority Health Month Can be a Launchpad to Closing the ‘Knowing-Doing’ Gap
04/25/2022
National Minority Health Month can be a launchpad to closing the ‘knowing-doing’ gap.
AHA’s Health Equity Roadmap Comes to Life: Join Us in Cleveland
04/21/2022
Attendees of the upcoming Accelerating Health Equity Conference, May 10-12 in Cleveland, will have an excellent opportunity to see the Health Equity Roadmap come to life as they join counterparts in other health care and community organizations for hands-on learning that can bolster efforts to advance diversity, equity and inclusion.
Blog: AHA Launches the Health Equity Roadmap – We Asked One of Its Architects Why It’s a Big Deal
04/19/2022
We spoke with Leon D. Caldwell, AHA’s senior director for health equity strategies and innovation and one of the Health Equity Roadmap’s architects, about its importance to hospitals and health systems.
Systems Leader Health Equity Transformation Assessment Guidance
04/05/2022
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.
Health Equity Transformation Model: Literature Overview
04/04/2022
Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services is key to advancing health equity, improving patient safety and quality of care and eliminating health disparities. This literature overview provides a series of resources intended to guide and empower efforts to reach this critical milepost.
Accelerating Health Equity: Moving from Conversation to Action
03/31/2022
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’ve learned to strengthen our organizations and communities through collaborative and innovative work — by investing in our neighborhoods and one another.
Special Message: AHA Launches Health Equity Roadmap
03/29/2022
Today, we’re excited to announce the launch of the Health Equity Roadmap — an innovative framework to support hospitals and health systems in their efforts to become more equitable organizations and dismantle structural barriers to health and overall well-being.
Systemic and Shared Accountability
02/06/2022
Creating infrastructure to maintain accountability to sustain DEI work across departments and service lines.
Community Collaboration for Solutions
02/06/2022
Advancing health equity and fostering healthy communities by investing in strong hospital-community partnerships.
Diverse Representation in Leadership and Governance
02/06/2022
Creating pathways that lead to diversifying leadership ranks to reflect the populations and communities served.
Collection and Use of Data to Drive Action
02/06/2022
Using quantitative and qualitative data to inform, design, and evaluate improvement strategies.
Equitable and Inclusive Organizational Policies
02/06/2022
Applying a DEI lens to organizational policies and supporting an equitable and inclusive climate and culture.
Culturally Appropriate Patient Care
02/06/2022
Practicing cultural humility and activities that improve culturally appropriate care such as language access and health literacy.
Glossary of Health Equity Transformation Terms
02/06/2022
This glossary refers to the Associated Press (AP) style for a majority of the terms listed below. For terms not specifically included in the AP Style guide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Boston Public Health Commission, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Washington School of Public Health informed those definitions.
About The Health Equity Roadmap Work
02/06/2022
AHA’s Institute for Diversity & Health Equity designed the Health Equity Roadmap as a framework to guide hospitals and health care systems to advance equity.
The Six Levers of Transformation
02/06/2022
Research and experience show that leading health equity strategies cut across these six major areas within health care organizational structures: Equitable and Inclusive Organizational Policies; Community Collaboration for Solutions; Diverse Representation in Leadership and Governance; Collection and Use of Data to Drive Action; Culturally Appropriate Patient Care; and Systemic and Shared Accountability.
National Alliance to End Homelessness's Racial Equity Network Toolkit
01/25/2022
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.
Powering Health Equity Action with Online Data Tools: 10 Design Principles
01/25/2022
This report aims to strengthen community-driven efforts to achieve health equity by improving the online data tools that make health equity data readily available to them.
Equity Impact Assessment Tool
01/25/2022
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.
From Common Ground to Shared Action
01/25/2022
Action report on local consortia in two regions delineating pragmatic steps to ensure effective, sustainable cross-sector partnerships.
AHA Hospital Community Cooperative Case Study
01/25/2022
This video explores the story of collaboration between MultiCare and their community partners to reduce breast cancer disparities in Tacoma, WA.
Complex Care Startup Toolkit
01/25/2022
The Complex Care Startup Toolkit is a practical collection of guides, templates and other tools for new and developing complex care programs, regardless of setting, population or geography.
Partnership Assessment Tool for Health
01/25/2022
Designed for community-based organizations and health care organizations already engaged in partnership, the Partnership Assessment Tool for Health, or PATH, provides a format to understand progress toward benchmarks characteristic of effective partnerships, identify areas for further development and guide strategic conversation.