Health Equity Updates: February 2024 Issue
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Health Equity Updates: January 2024 Issue
Download the newsletter View the new edition of our health equity newsletter featuring news, events, and tools to support your efforts to eliminate healthcare disparities within your community. This month,
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How to Prepare for a Successful Joint Commission Health Equity Accreditation Survey
Thursday, December 1412 to 1 pm ET Guest Speaker:Christina L. Cordero, Ph.D.,MPHThe Joint CommissionProject Director, Healthcare Standards DevelopmentDivision of Healthcare Quality Evaluation Dr. Cordero leads standards development projects for new
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October is Health Literacy Month
October is Health Literacy Month, an observance that was founded in 1999 by Helen Osbourne. Health literacy is a crucial determinant of health and outcome. Healthy People 2030 defines health
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Minimum Data Set (MDS) Health Equity Requirements
CMS released the final version of the Resident Assessment Manual that represents the largest revamp of the Minimum Data Set (MDS) nursing home assessment tool. There are more than 60
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Hospital Health Equity Highlights: August 2023
View the latest hospital equity news, events, and tools to support your efforts in eliminating healthcare disparities within your health system and communities. In this issue:
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Health Equity Updates: August 2023 Issue
View the new edition of our health equity newsletter featuring news, events, and tools to support your efforts to eliminate healthcare disparities within your community. This month, read about National
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IPRO Partner Shares Ways to Address Structural Inequities to Improve Patient Safety
Partnerships are key to IPRO’s efforts to promote health equity. We are fortunate to collaborate with healthcare and community leaders who are passionate about ensuring equitable care for everyone. One
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Social Determinants of Health Items Explainer Video
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is offering a 4-minute, animated explainer video, Social Determinants of Health Items: Determining When a Proxy Response is Allowed for HH, IRF, and
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IPRO Invites You to Prepare to Submit the CMS Health Equity Structural Measures With Us
Hospitals participating in the CMS Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Program are required to submit structural measures for CY2023 into the CMS Hospital Quality Reporting system. Submissions are due between April
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Health-Related Social Needs Series
Addressing health-related social needs (or social drivers of health) can improve health outcomes. Health-related social needs include food insecurity, housing instability, transportation needs, utility difficulties, and interpersonal safety. Join IPRO
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Health Equity Updates: July 2023 Issue
View the new edition of our health equity newsletter featuring news, events, and tools to support your efforts to eliminate healthcare disparities within your community. This month, read about National
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Health Equity Hospital Highlights: July 2023 Issue
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Health Equity Updates: June 2023 Newsletter
View the new edition of our health equity newsletter featuring news, events, and tools to support your efforts in eliminating healthcare disparities within your communities. This month, read about Men’s
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Health Equity Hospital Highlights: June 2023 Issue
View the latest hospital equity news, events, and tools to support your efforts in eliminating healthcare disparities within your health system and communities. What’s Inside:
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Health Equity Updates: May 2023 Newsletter
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Health Equity Hospital Highlights: May 2023 Issue
View the latest hospital equity news, events, and tools to support your efforts in eliminating healthcare disparities within your health system and communities. What’s Inside:
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Health Equity Hospital Highlights: April 2023 Issue
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Health Equity Updates: April 2023 Newsletter
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Health Equity Updates: March 2023 Newsletter
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Health Equity Hospital Highlights: March 2023 Issue
View the latest hospital health equity news, events, and tools to support your efforts in eliminating healthcare disparities within your health system and communities. What’s Inside:
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CMS Health Equity Measures and Joint Commission Requirements to Reduce Health Disparities
Thursday March, 2, 2023 12:00 – 12:30 PM ET A Guide to the CMS Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) Health Equity Measures Guest Speakers: Julia Venanzi, MPH Centers for Medicare
A Patient’s Perspective: Why the Bivalent Booster was Important to Me
by Janice Tufet, Medicare beneficiary On March 1, 2020, I had just finished a two-day Complex Care and Social Needs Core Competency steering group meeting in Camden, New Jersey, where
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Health Equity Updates: February 2023 Newsletter
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Health Equity Hospital Highlights: February 2023 Issue
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If You’ve Seen One Rural Community, You’ve Seen One Rural Community
Perspectives of a Rural Health Advocate Guest Blog by Ronnie Rom, MSPH, CPHQ, Massachusetts Office of Rural Health While I didn’t grow up in a rural area, I lived for
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Bivalent Booster Hesitancy? Set the Stage for Success!
The COVID-19 Bivalent Booster is critical in preventing serious COVID-19 outcomes. Yet, Many are hesitant to get the vaccine. Hear from our experts addressing hesitancy and discussing strategies for vaccine
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National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
A blueprint to help promote health equity. What is CLAS? Culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) are a way to improve the quality of services provided to all individuals,
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Voices from the Field Series Session I: Best Practices for Addressing Health-Related Social Needs (HRSN) in Care Coordination
Starting January 1, 2023, embedding health equity into your process, practice, performance, and quality outcomes will be a priority for healthcare organizations. To help you prepare to meet these requirements,
Health Equity Hospital Highlights: January 2023 Newsletter
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Health Equity Updates: January 2023 Newsletter
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Health Equity Updates: December 2022 Newsletter
View the new edition of our health equity newsletter featuring news, events, and tools to support your efforts in eliminating health care disparities within your communities. This month, read about
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HQIC Health Equity Updates: December 2022
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HQIC Health Equity Updates: November 2022
View the new edition of our health equity newsletter featuring news, events, and tools to support your efforts in eliminating healthcare disparities within your communities. This month read about breaking
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HQIC Health Equity Updates: October 2022
View the new edition of our health equity newsletter featuring news, events, and tools to support your efforts in eliminating healthcare disparities within your communities.
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Health Equity Updates: November 2022 Newsletter
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Health Equity Organizational Assessment (HEOA) Affinity Group
Join IPRO for the Health Equity Organizational Assessment (HEOA) Affinity Group. Led by IPRO Health Equity subject matter experts (SMEs), the group will work together to advance opportunities for improvement
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New Day Nursing Home Education Summit on December 8 from 9 am – 3 pm
Nursing homes do extraordinary work every day. At the same time, you may be seeking opportunities to learn and grow, to be on the cutting-edge of best practices, especially now.
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Meet the Team: Laura Benzel
Meet Laura Benzel from Qlarant, the Health Equity Lead for the IPRO QIN-QIO and an IPRO Health Equity Task Force member. Laura has ten years of experience working on equity-related
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CMS OMH Honors National Hispanic Heritage Month
This year, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of Minority Health (CMS OMH) honors National Hispanic Heritage Month, we will be focusing on the nation’s 60.5 million
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SAMHSA Webinar: Ending Homelessness-Developing Partnerships between HUD Continuums of Care and Disability, Aging, and Health Services Providers, August 29, 2022, 3-4 PM, ET
Through its Continuum of Care (CoC) program, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides funding for efforts by nonprofit organizations, states and tribes, and local governments to
Health Equity Updates: August 2022 Health Equity Newsletter
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The Importance of Collecting Patient Demographic Data
“How do we know if we have disparities and how can we prevent disparities that exist in our patient outcomes?” If your organization is asking these questions, the collection
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Health Equity Organizational Assessment (HEOA) Knowledge Builders Series
Eliminating health disparities requires a commitment to collecting meaningful patient demographic data that healthcare organizations can use to better understand their patient populations and community, and assess their needs. The
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How One Hosptial takes on Food Insecurity
Food insecurity has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic as unemployment, illness and death have caused a major financial strain in many households. It is defined as “a household-level economic
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AHRQ Releases 2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (NHQDR)
Since 2003, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has reported on progress and opportunities for reducing disparities and improving the quality of healthcare delivered across a variety of
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How Poverty Affects Health – Recognizing National Poverty in America Awareness Month
Imagine living on less than $1.90 a day. It’s difficult to fathom. According to the World Bank, that is the definition of extreme poverty, and about 690 million people live in
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Health Equity Updates: November Newsletter
View the latest health equity news, events, and tools to support your efforts in eliminating health care disparities within your organization and communities. What’s Inside? Overdiagnosis of Schizophrenia for Residents
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Pharmacists Can Play a Role Addressing Health Literacy
October, being designated both Health Literacy Month and American Pharmacists Month, is an appropriate time to recognize pharmacists’ roles in improving health literacy. Given the complexity of our healthcare system, it
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Health Equity Updates: October Newsletter
View the latest health equity news, events, and tools to support your efforts in eliminating health care disparities within your health system and communities. What’s inside? An Equity Agenda for
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Four Ways to Improve Health Literacy at Your Health Care Organization
October is Health Literacy Month, when we take time to recognize the importance of creating equitable access to health care information for individuals, and the role health care organizations play
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