It’s easy for health equity work to devolve into a bit of analysis paralysis, leaving even the best-intentioned people stuck questioning how to progress forward, according to Kulleni Gebreyes,...
A medical transportation partnership between Uber Health and the Texas Medicaid program is set to expand access to care to nearly 4.4 million people, helping to address transportation as a leading...
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...
Only about six in ten non-profit hospitals are completing a community health needs assessment (CHNA) and publicly reporting the results and corresponding action plan online, according to data published...
For South Texas Physician’s Alliance, social determinants of health referral has been a learning experience.
The organization, which has joined providers across the country in efforts to address...
The National Quality Forum (NQF) wants to make it easier to improve health equity, and that starts with an effort to embed equity into clinical quality measures across the care continuum.
The...
The American Association of Nurse Anesthetists will now refer to itself as the American Association of Nurse Anesthesiology (AANA), but industry groups are concerned about how the name change will...
Providing an additional $40 per month to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) beneficiaries for the purchase of fruits and vegetables was associated with healthier eating habits and a...
Improving patient primary care access may be as simple as connecting that patient with a provider who speaks the same language as them, helping to build stronger patient-provider relationships, instill...
Racial discrimination and implicit bias in medicine is affecting Black and Hispanic patients at rates three- and two-times more often than White people, and it’s coming to serve as a serious care...
Healthcare organizations working to build out community health partnerships to boost health equity and address social determinants of health need to ensure they are on the same page as those with whom...
The United States ranked last in The Commonwealth Fund’s reported measurements of health equity, access to care, administrative efficiency, and healthcare outcomes compared to ten other wealthy...
Tackling care disparities and social determinants of health calls for policy interventions centered on health equity, economic mobility, access to care, affordable housing, safe learning environments,...
Like most healthcare organizations, the Jackson, Mississippi-based Children’s Medical Group faced steep care gaps at the hands of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in a transformation from a purely...
There is a direct connection between social determinants of health (SDOH), like poverty and lack of health insurance, and care access issues and poor health outcomes for HIV patients, according to a...
In a past life working as a nurse, Sherry Norquist, MSN, ACM, remembers going through her Rolodex when one of her patients presented with social determinants of health referral needs. She’d...
When Daniel Carrión, PhD, MPH, a researcher from Mount Sinai, thinks of COVID-19 racial health disparities, he thinks of the subway. After all, needing to ride the subway—or work an...
For elderly Mexican Americans living in neighborhoods with low English-speaking proficiency, language isolation can lead to care access issues, poor health outcomes, and higher mortality rates,...
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...
New Health Affairs data is leaving researchers urging public health leaders to improve patient education about emergency department utilization.
This comes amidst the backdrop of health payers...
