Disparities/Equity of Care
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.
Leon Caldwell, AHA’s senior director for health equity strategies and innovation, writes about the current landscape of equity in the field and how the AHA’s Health Equity Roadmap can help.
The need to improve maternal and child health equity in America while reducing access disparities has become a national focus. As policymakers and provider organizations continue to seek ways to reverse these trends, hospitals and health systems are stepping up with innovative efforts.
Though recognizing implicit bias is important, hospitals must have an action plan to address it.
This week is Black Maternal Health Week, and April is National Minority Health Month. It’s an opportunity to “deepen the conversation” about black maternal health in the U.S. and to highlight the “important role individuals and organizations can play” in helping to reduce health disparities and…
According to latest data from the CDC, the U.S. maternal mortality rate, already significantly higher than in comparable countries, continues to rise, specifically for women of color.
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…
The Health Equity Roadmap, which builds on the goals established by the National Call to Action to Eliminate Health Care Disparities and AHA’s #123forEquity Pledge, is designed to meet hospitals and health systems where they are on their equity journey. It includes customized resources and action…
The AHA today announced the launch of the Health Equity Roadmap (equity.aha.org), a framework to support hospitals and health systems in their efforts to become more equitable organizations and dismantle structural barriers to health.
AHA and its Institute for Diversity and Health Equity encourage organizational health equity, diversity and inclusion leaders to complete the survey.