Health Equity
Boston Medical Center, a private, not-for-profit, equity-led academic medical center is the winner of AHA’s 2024 Foster G. McGaw Prize for its leadership and initiatives to improve care quality, care access and health equity in its surrounding community.
Access to quality mental and physical health services can be a complex challenge, but for individuals of color and people with severe or chronic mental illnesses, finding treatment can be exceptionally hard.
Lidera ConscienteMENTE es una campaña de desestigmatización, primera en su tipo, que obtiene información curada de expertos diseñada específicamente para una audiencia hispana para fomentar conversaciones abiertas sobre la salud mental.
Lidera ConscienteMENTE is a first-of-its-kind destigmatization campaign creating curated expert information designed specifically for a Hispanic audience to encourage open conversations about mental health.
In this conversation, Tracey Lavallias, executive director of behavioral health at Penn Medicine Lancaster General Health, discusses potential solutions to make access easier for patients.
We know that health equity matters. But what exactly does the term mean?
Dr. Mauvareen Beverley, an expert in addressing health care inequities and unconscious bias, shares how she has developed and executed programs aimed at increasing cultural competency among clinical and administrative teams. These efforts have specifically focused on improving health outcomes for…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services July 10 issued a proposed rule that would increase Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system rates by a net 2.6% in calendar year 2025 compared to 2024. This includes a proposed 3.0% market basket update, offset by a 0.4 percentage…
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…
Ensuring equitable access to quality care is part of the responsibility of hospital and health system boards to serve their communities.