Disparities/Equity of Care
A new toolkit from AHA’s Institute for Diversity and Health Equity focuses on leveraging patient data to advance health equity. The first in a new series of health equity resources, the toolkit was released last week in concert with the Accelerating Health Equity Conference.
The AHA Center for Health Innovation invites hospitals and health systems to participate in its second Hospital Community Collaborative, which will focus on COVID-19-related community needs.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention allocated $10 billion to states and territories from the American Rescue Plan Act to support testing to screen teachers, staff and students for COVID-19 to help reopen schools.
On this AHA Advancing Health podcast, Esther Corpuz, CEO of Alivio Medical Center in Chicago, talks about combatting the COVID-19 pandemic through testing, vaccinations and education within the community.
Hospital and health system leaders are uniquely positioned to deploy strategies and solutions to advance health equity, diversity and inclusion and share those successes broadly, writes Joy Lewis, AHA senior vice president of health equity strategies and executive director of the AHA’s Institute…
AHA launches the first in a new series of toolkits designed to help hospitals and health systems make progress in advancing their health equity agenda.
Information and resources to help hospitals and health systems use community investment, also called place-based investment, to address housing insecurity and other social determinants of health in their communities.
With the emergency use authorization for a third COVID-19 vaccine, progress is being made in efforts to vaccinate the public. Still, challenges remain, particularly with communication around supplies and eligibility.
In this AHA Physician Alliance podcast, Dawn Sears, M.D., a gastroenterologist at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in Temple, Texas, shares how she applied skills learned from the Women’s Wellness through Equity and Leadership Project to the COVID-19 public health emergency.
FEMA has established the Civil Rights Advisory Group as part of the agency’s commitment to the COVID-19 vaccination mission amid the ongoing battle against the pandemic.