New resources available in Health Care Equity Resource Center

The Joint Commission regularly updates its Health Care Equity Accreditation Standards & Resource Center to help organizations meet its healthcare equity standards. The resource center includes:

• Snapshots: Brief synopses of approaches used by other organizations.
• Soundbites: Brief videos of organizations’ lessons learned.
• Strategies: Links to resources such as toolkits, templates and guides.

New resources have been added to the center chronicling the efforts undertaken by Boston Medical Center (BMC), a 514-bed, private, not-for profit, academic medical center located in Boston's historic South End. With 70 medical specialties and subspecialties, over 1 million patient visits are conducted at the organization per year. The resources include:

• Six new Snapshots focusing on the challenges, successes and lessons learned during the academic medical center’s healthcare equity journey.
• Six new Soundbites videos with BMC leaders describing:
  • The important role of leadership in developing, implementing, and monitoring activities to reduce healthcare disparities in their organization’s patient population.
  • The assessment of social needs.
  • Approaches to prioritizing, planning, and taking action to address healthcare disparities.
  • Using data to identify disparities across patient groups.
  • Approaches to keep key stakeholders informed of organizational progress toward advancing healthcare equity.
• New Strategies on:
  • Vaccination rates
  • Childhood asthma
  • Perinatal care

Visit the Health Care Equity Accreditation Standards & Resource Center to see the newly added resources from BMC. To continue to learn from other organizations engaged in healthcare equity work, sign up for E-Alerts to be notified when new resources are added to the resource center.