Advancing Health Equity: A Safety Net Hospital Perspective
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چکیده
Equitable care has been recognized as one of the six core components quality for over two decades, yet scant attention paid to understand and address healthcare disparities in US. There is long-standing evidence substantial health poor outcomes along race, ethnicity income levels The COVID-19 pandemic both exacerbated exposed these inequities catalyzed a national imperative achieve equitable healthcare. objective this article provide case study resource-challenged safety net hospital’s journey advance equity Chicago. Humboldt Park Health (HPH) 200-bed independent community teaching hospital located on West side Chicago serving multiracial, multilingual socioeconomically disadvantaged population. Our started with formation multidisciplinary committee 2021, reporting Board Trustees, that was charged formulating strategy, developing an evidence-based framework priorities action, implementing action plan. We addressed four groups stakeholders: our patients, people, organization, community. actions have included (a) collection patients’ demographic data such ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, gender identity; (b) assessment social determinants (SDOH) connecting patients services; (c) development dashboards various ambulatory preventive measures stratification language; (d) focus LGBTQ+ community’s access well-informed sensitivity-trained behavioral service providers, (e) organization-wide training embed concepts diversity, inclusivity fabric organization. Other initiatives include building wellness center 100-unit affordable housing complex Digital important domain being by launch patient portal empower providing them their information, remote monitoring solutions. next phase work involves evaluation studies impact interventions
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Medical research archives
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2375-1916', '2375-1924']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v11i2.3637