AGENCY TESTIMONY
Accountability tools for hospitals to address health inequities
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Dr. Morse discusses specific tools that can help hospitals and healthcare systems hold themselves accountable for addressing racial and health inequities. She provides an example from Illinois to illustrate how such tools can be implemented effectively.
- Introduces the Illinois statewide racial health equity progress report action tool as a useful example
- Describes the tool as a self-assessment questionnaire for hospitals and health systems to measure their performance in addressing racial and other health inequities
- Emphasizes the importance of examining all aspects of an organization, not just patient care, to eliminate health inequities
- Highlights how these tools can help organizations measure progress over time, support greater transparency, and promote accountability
Dr. Michelle Morse
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One useful example comes from Illinois where healthcare leaders have created a statewide racial health equity progress report action tool, which is a self assessment questionnaire that hospitals and health systems can use to measure their performance addressing racial and other health inequities.
0:24:39
This is a valuable tool that highlights the importance of examining all aspects of an organization, not only patient care, to successfully eliminate health inequities.
0:24:50
Actionable tools like this can help organizations measure their progress over time, support greater transparency around their actions and decisions, and promote accountability.
