Health Equity Updates: August Newsletter

View the latest hospital health equity news, events, and tools to support your efforts in eliminating health care disparities within your health system and communities.

What’s inside?

  • America’s Health Rankings Inaugural Health Disparities Report
  • CMS Proposes Changes to Reduce Disparities among Patients with CKD and ESRD
  • CMS Proposes Physician Rule to Improve Health Equity & Patient Access
  • Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care for LGBTQ+ Individuals: Current Trends & Key Challenges
  • Affordable Housing a Key Piece of People with Disabilities and Older Adults’ Long-Term Services & Support
  • Racial Inequity in Prescription Opioid Receipt – Role of Individual Health Systems
  • August is National Immunization Awareness Month
  • Health Equity Webinar Materials
  • Upcoming Events and Monthly Observances