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The health system, which operates 26 hospitals and more than 500 outpatient care locations, is based in Illinois and Wisconsin.
Under board and executive leadership, Advocate Aurora Health has:
Established two leadership programs—the Leadership Diversity Ambassador Program and Emerging Leader Program—to help build and retain diverse leadership and support an inclusive organizational culture.
n Worked to achieve more equity within six key areas: workforce development, housing, community violence and safety, access to primary care, access to behavioral health services and food insecurity.
Launched programs that improve outcomes for African-Americans with hypertension, diabetes and other chronic diseases by addressing the social and economic barriers that prevent healthy habits. Based in Bristol, Connecticut, the integrated healthcare network includes Bristol Hospital, Bristol Health Medical Group, and homecare, hospice, skilled-nursing and EMS services with over 20 locations throughout central Connecticut.
Under board and executive leadership, Bristol Health has:
Created a vision to advance health equity in the community by eliminating disparities in the delivery of patient care by recognizing and celebrating differences in gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, physical abilities, religious beliefs, political beliefs and other ideologies.
Collaborated with diverse community programs and promoted shared governance within its workforce to increase diversity, equity and inclusion to serve the needs of the community and identify ongoing performance-improvement opportunities. CareOregon is not-for-profit health plan serving more than 450,000 members in the Oregon Health Plan, the state’s Medicaid program, as well as Medicare Advantage members.
Under board and executive leadership, CareOregon was able to:
Include diversity, equity and inclusion metrics in its three-year strategic plan. Staff will be held accountable to these metrics, with financial bonus incentives connected to the organization’s ability to meet specific strategic goals in this space.
Establish a DEI steering committee, made up of staff and executive leadership. The committee makes recommendations on training and curriculum in an effort to support continued staff development.
Develop a population health strategy that relies on data segregation to better identify both high-risk populations as well as populations experiencing significant disparities compared with data from the rest of the membership.