New York City-based NYC Health + Hospitals and Houston-based Texas Children's Pavilion for Women were the 2022 recipients of the Bernard J. Tyson National Award for Excellence in Pursuit of Healthcare Equity from The Joint Commission and Kaiser Permanente.

A hotel in Escondido, Calif., has been transformed into a post-hospitalization facility for the homeless, The Coast News reported Nov. 3. 

New Haven, Conn.-based Yale researchers found inequities in the physician-scientist workforce begin during training.

Even as healthcare leaders embrace health equity as an urgent goal, figuring out how to undo the complex web of systems responsible for America’s serious health disparities is daunting. The work will take years of commitment, and getting started requires a thoughtful roadmap to implement an effective strategy.

Even as healthcare leaders embrace health equity as an urgent goal, figuring out how to undo the complex web of systems responsible for America’s serious health disparities is daunting. The work will take years of commitment, and getting started requires a thoughtful roadmap to implement an effective strategy.

NYC Health + Hospitals spent more than $747 million — 32 percent of its eligible procurement spending — with minority- and women-owned businesses in fiscal year 2022. 

Healthcare leaders from 32 organizations in seven states have joined forces to tackle health disparities among minority aging populations.

The Joint Commission has created a Health Care Equity Resource Center to help hospitals achieve safer, more equitable care, the organization said Oct. 26.

The idea that health inequities can and should be eliminated is misaligned with the definitions of equity and justice, according to an article published Oct. 24 in Health Affairs. 

Arizona's health information exchange, Contexture, has selected health technology company Unite Us to provide the digital infrastructure to power CommunityCare, Arizona's social determinants of health referral system.

U.S. News & World Report — known for its healthcare rankings, including those that compare hospitals and physicians — has formulated a way to measure hospitals' health equity. And it may eventually be included in the publication's ranking methodology. 

UVA Cancer Center researchers found a five- to 11-day difference in wait time for lung cancer treatment between white patients and minority patients.

Black patients with advanced heart failure received potentially life-saving therapies half as often as white patients, a study published in the AHA journal Circulation: Heart Failure found.

Fifty-seven percent of race-related patient safety incidents are due to patients making inappropriate racial comments or engaging in racist behavior toward their provider, according to an analysis by ECRI.

Health equity means providing all people with patient-centered care that's built on trust, empathy and understanding. Fulfilling that vision, however, is often difficult. 

Healthcare technology platform PointClickCare Technologies is partnering with referral management platform Findhelp to integrate social determinants of health information into a platform available for clinicians and social workers.

Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, and his family foundation have donated $50 million to Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital. 

The Atlanta City Council has tabled a proposal to turn Wellstar Atlanta Medical Center into an equity center upon its Nov. 1 closure, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Oct. 12.

Here are three health equity investments over $10 million that Becker's has covered since Aug. 30:

TruLite Health is rolling out health equity software as a service platform Truity.