Equity of Care

Equity Learning Community

Now is your chance to help transform North Carolina into a state where high-quality healthcare is equitable and accessible for everyone. Join us for the launch of a year-long learning community, supported by the North Carolina Healthcare Foundation, designed to bring together NCHA member hospitals to focus on integrating equity into performance improvement. Read the Equity Learning Community Charter to learn more about this opportunity.

The community is facilitated in partnership with Impact4Health, one of three organizations nationwide named by the American Hospital Association as Equity Transformation Partners, and supports compliance to current and future regulatory requirements around equity through programming and shared learning.

By joining this community you will learn more about:

Using Z-codes to analyze information on social drivers of health
Developing strategies to collect accurate health equity data
Building and strengthening community partnerships
Creating inclusive workplace cultures

Additional topics will be determined based on the community’s feedback.

Watch the Information Session

You can watch a recording of the information session here or by clicking on the video below. Click here for instructions on how to register or view the charter to learn more.

FAQs about the opportunity

There is no cost for a hospital to participate.
The community will convene twice quarterly for 12 months, learning and sharing around topics participants identify as needs. These sessions will be facilitated by subject matter experts with a very heavy focus on practical approaches to implement evidence-based, best practices when integrating equity into performance improvement.
There are no data submission requirements except completion of surveys to assess needs.
A quadrad from each participating organization will be asked to participate as a team: leaders and influencers at the hospital level in 1) quality/performance improvement, 2) diversity/equity, 3) patient-family engagement, and 4) community relations.

Staff Contacts

Shelby Lassiter

Director, Patient Safety & Quality Improvement

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Dean Higgins

Executive Director of Program Development and Operations