Population/Community Health
Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations.
This toolkit is a user-friendly 鈥渉ow-to鈥 guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care disparities and ensure hospital leadership reflect the communities they serve.
Every year the Minnesota Hospital Association (MHA), like many other state, metropolitan and regional hospital associations across the country, releases an annual report that describes the many ways in which its hospitals help build healthier communities. The MHA recently released its 2014鈥
This infographic presents the diverse roles that hospital leaders can play in building a culture of health and highlights key points summarized in October 2014 report.
This infographic also illustrates five goals for hospitals:
Coordinate hospital-based interventions with community stakeholders and other key partners through mature collaborations;
Increase preventive health services through coordinated care across the health care continuum;
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In 2013, the Connecticut Multicultural State Partnership, a non-profit health advocacy group, received a federal grant to specifically address racial and ethnic health disparities by increasing the adoption and implementation of the The National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically鈥
This guide provides a framework for hospitals and care systems to stratify patient race, ethnicity and language data and use them to identify and address health care disparities. In the guide you will find sample dashboards and outlined steps.
The guide reports the findings of HRET's review of 300 community health needs assessments, provides strategic considerations for hospital engagement in community health improvement and offers a model of the hospital's role in building a culture of health.
The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement strategies that will assist in delivering care that is safe, timely, equitable, effective, efficient and patient-centered.