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Health Care Organizations
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1. Commit to Acting for Equity
Commit to taking at least one action from each category.
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Optional: List actions you or your organization are taking
2. Getting Grounded in History & Your Local Context
Facilitate increasing knowledge among all staff and board members about the history of racism and other forms of oppression (sexism, ableism, classism, ageism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, etc.) at the national, local, and organizational levels.
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Provide educational and professional development opportunities that equip health care professionals to advance racial justice and health equity
3. Identifying Opportunities for Improvement
Collect and stratify key clinical data, measures, and indicators by relevant sociodemographic factors (e.g., REALD and SOGI) to identify inequities. Gather qualitative data (e.g., individual and community experiences) to understand the full scope and context of inequities.
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Stratify key quality, safety, patient experience, and other patient-reported outcome data and indicators by relevant sociodemographic factors (e.g., REaLD and SOGI) to systematically identify harmful variation in health care delivery and outcomes
Add an equity prompt to all harm-event reporting systems (e.g., patient safety/sentinel events) to increase detection of inequities
4. Taking Initiative
Systematically embed equity into the process, structure, and operations of all hospital activities (e.g., clinical, quality and safety, research).
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Address Inequities identified through harm-event reporting using equity-informed high-reliability practices to drive system-level improvements