Shelby Lassiter
Director, Patient Safety & Quality Improvement
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- 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
Dean Higgins
Executive Director of Program Development and Operations
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Ernie Izummuo
Senior Program Manager, Clinical Implementation
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