Make Health Care Equity a Leader-Driven Priority
Leadership is essential for the success of any quality and safety improvement project, and it is equally important for addressing health-related social needs and health care disparities.
NPSG.16.01.01
Improving health care equity for the organization鈥檚 patients is a quality and safety priority.
EP 1
The organization designates an individual(s) to lead activities to improve health care equity for the organization鈥檚 patients.
Note
Leading the organization’s activities to reduce health care disparities may be an individual’s primary role or part of a broader set of responsibilities.
Leading the organization鈥檚 activities to improve health care equity may be an individual鈥檚 primary role or part of a broader set of responsibilities.
Learn from Other Organizations
Check out the Snapshots and Soundbites to learn how other organizations created a leadership infrastructure to support their health care equity work.
Preview of Resources
Looking for a template to guide discussions, an assessment tool to determine your organization’s current position on its health care equity journey, or the opportunity to exchange ideas with other leaders? If your organization is creating a health care equity team, then a practical resource on how to train others to lead may be useful. To help your organization meet the new health care equity requirements, click the Strategies tab to access the resources we selected to support your efforts.