Together, we can create health care that cares for all of us.
Our vision is a transformed health care ecosystem where all people have the power, circumstances, and resources to achieve optimal health.
Together We Will:
Build
Build capacity, expand knowledge, and mobilize with concrete skills and tools to advance equity and racial justice in the health care ecosystem and in our communities.
Change
Influence and fundamentally change policy, payment systems, education, standards, and practices.
Transform
Sustainably change mindsets and narratives within health care around equity and racial justice.
Who We Are
We are individuals and organizations committed to equity and justice within the health ecosystem. We build, lead and advance shared solutions and collective actions to transform and strengthen health care. We recognize our unique assets, levers, and capabilities to build our collective power.
Participant Reflections
"Very much eye-opening, and I feel more confident moving forward on our organizations' equity journey. I think the tools provided, frameworks, time and opportunity to practice have been invaluable." —Individual Practitioner
"Our org has been doing social determinants of health screening for several years. [This session] reminded me that we need to constantly maintain a growth quality improvement mindset and reexamine if there are ways to improve upon the way we do things." —Healthcare Organization
"What RTHC has done is create a safe space...Thank you for being brave and courageous and putting it on the table." —Payer
"Thank you for all the training, guidance, camaraderie, networking, and resources. It’s been a great experience. I’ve learned a lot and gained useful skills and confidence." — Pharma, Research, BIotechnology
Take Action Now
1. Commit to acting for equity
Committing to equity as a core mission of your work is a critical first step. Join and help build a learning community of aligned people and organizations advancing a collective vision of equity and justice.
2. Make equity a strategic priority
Leadership and accountability for advancing equity reside across all levels of our organizations and sectors. This includes a diverse and representative governance structure, centering equity in the design and resourcing of the organizational strategic plan, and connecting the intelligence and guidance of communities to the resources and solutions of the organization.
3. Get grounded in history and your local context
To effectively, collaboratively, and authentically advance equity in our health care ecosystem, it is important to be grounded in shared history, language, frameworks, assumptions, values, and norms.
4. Identify opportunities for improvement
Solutions are more powerful when they center the expertise and experience of our patients, staff, and communities, particularly those that have been marginalized. This includes the use of data and data justice approaches to identify opportunities for improvement that matter to those we serve and our staff.
5. Take initiative
When you and/or your organization are grounded in foundational education and history, have used equity-informed data to clearly identify opportunities for improvement, and have developed a strategic plan in partnership with people and communities with lived experience, it is time to take action to address these past or ongoing harms.
6. Align, invest, and advocate for thriving communities
Advocate for, align with, and adopt strategies that build power for local and diverse communities and improve health and well-being for all. By dissolving the long-standing boundaries (e.g., by race, class, and other factors) that currently separate many health care organizations from the communities they serve or should serve, we can begin to realign organizational and community thriving as one and the same.
