When developing a health equity playbook, cancer programs need to break down existing silos and ensure that all key players are involved in developing strategies and identifying how the cancer program is going to use this tool to improve care.
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Designing a health equity playbook starts with a deep understanding of the patients you serve. Successful playbooks have components that build on the patient experience, the protocols that are in place to ensure the cancer program is meeting the unique needs of all its patients, and staff education and and training on how to best serve those different patient populations. When developing a health equity playbook, cancer programs need to break down existing silos and ensure that all key players are involved in developing strategies and identifying how the cancer program is going to use this tool to improve care.
Guest:
Maria Hernandez, PhD
President and COO
Impact4Health, LLC
Quote:
“Hopefully, we will get to a place in the future where every single health system’s strategy for providing the best quality of care always has equity in mind…a hospital system of the future will have in its DNA the ability to look at its operations and understand that health equity must be in everything we do.”
Hear more about how to develop and activate a health equity playbook in the 2-hour ACHE accredited session, More than Words: Leveraging Governance and Partnerships to Advance Health Equity, at the ACCC 41st National Oncology Conference, October 9-11, 2024, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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