Many healthcare workers experience social determinants of health, with new data published in Health Affairs particularly outlining disparities in food insecurity between healthcare support staff and...
Older adults living in low-income or otherwise disadvantaged neighborhoods become disabled about two years before those living in more affluent areas, underscoring how neighborhood—and its link...
Like nearly every other healthcare organization, the Indiana- and Michigan-based Beacon Health System is eyeing the gaps in care opened during the pandemic carefully. But in addition to the targeted...
By now, most of healthcare is on the same page about the social determinants of health. These factors related to where patients work, live, and play can have a profound impact on their ability to...
HHS recently announced that it will help to expand critical access to COVID-19 vaccines among older adults and people with disabilities.
HHS, along with the CDC and the Administration for Community...
Healthcare organizations looking to address housing insecurity and housing quality as key social determinants of health can look at their mission as a three-tiered roadmap, according to Kelly Kelleher,...
Convenient and comprehensive patient care access is the hallmark of good patient engagement and healthcare. But far too often, key roadblocks get in the way of that seamless access, including a number...
There is a considerable human and healthcare cost that could have been avoided at the onset of COVID-19 had more been done to ameliorate eventual racial health disparities, amounting to thousands of...
When an emergency strikes, like a global pandemic or a devastating natural disaster, mass education and direction becomes crucial. Federal, state, and local leadership lean on public health...
2020 has been defined by more than just COVID-19. For many, it’s been a year of uncomfortable truths, of acknowledgment and unlearning of implicit biases. In healthcare, 2020 has pushed providers to ask themselves tough questions,...
Racial health disparities have only gotten worse in the past twenty years, new data shows, despite Congressional and research efforts to better understand and mitigate disparities.
The study,...
Healthcare organizations with cultures of inclusivity and that focus on delivering care to traditionally marginalized populations may be well-positioned to circumvent care access or utilization issues...
The recent focus on racial health disparities and health equity has brought to the forefront another key concept in healthcare delivery and patient care: implicit bias.
Implicit bias, a phrase that is...
The social determinants of health garnered a lot of attention once it became evident they can impact value-based care success.
As healthcare providers worked to promote overall health and wellness and...
“It takes a village” takes on a whole new meaning when you apply it to healthcare. For Desha Dickson, associate vice president of Community Wellness at Reading Hospital, it takes a literal...
Health disparities and health equity are two phrases that have often been used interchangeably to refer to the fact that some populations are able to achieve health and wellness more easily than...
As value-based care and outcomes-based reimbursement increasingly become a reality in healthcare, medical professionals have leaned on key strategies to prevent acute healthcare episodes and boost the...
Having an address in a rural area could mean a patient needs more than just better access to care. According to new research out of the Mayo Clinic, it could also mean that patient experiences the...
Although religious affiliation is not a consideration during patient access to care, most patients agree their preferences should take precedence over a healthcare organization’s religious or...
The healthcare industry has come to a consensus that the social determinants of health and population health are essential considerations for delivering on value-based care. But it takes a village, as...