Health Equity Workgroup Enrollment

Health Equity Workgroup Enrollment

The Washington State Hospital Association (WSHA) invites you to join the Health Equity Workgroups for 2023.

By completing this enrollment form, you commit to:

Regularly participate in meetings (every other month)
Identify one initiative to advance at your home facility
Contribute to the collective goal/deliverable of the workgroup

At this time, participation is limited to WSHA members and select community partners. If your facility resides outside of Washington State and you would like to join a workgroup, please contact Jessica Symank (jessicas@wsha.org).

Enrollee Information

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You may select multiple hospitals if you are participating at the system level or on behalf of more than one facility.

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2023 Health Equity Workgroups

We seek passionate individuals with ability to collaborate, co-design, implement, and evaluate projects on the following topics. Please select one or more workgroups in which you would like to participate:

Gender-Affirming Care Workgroup Description

Empower WA hospitals to provide safe respectful environments and care experiences for gender diverse and LGBT patients.

This workgroup will promote use of patient pronouns and patient-centered collection of gender identity and sexual orientation data. We will elevate the “why” behind collecting gender information and talk about the harms of misgendering patients. Workgroup participants will set individual goals and work collaboratively on a project to complete by the end of the year. Community partners with lived experience who directly advocate for gender-diverse people will be invited to participate.

I want to join the Gender-Affirming Care Workgroup

Equity Measures and Data Analytics Workgroup Description

Identify or design measures to inform health equity and disparities reduction action plans.

Strategies will be shared to improve completeness and validity of patient sociodemographic data, stratification of clinical quality measures, development of dashboards, and communication via reports. Additional guidance on analyzing data to identify health disparities and ensuring equity in data visualization will be explored. Workgroup participants will set individual goals and work collaboratively on a project to complete by the end of the year. Community partners with experience being misidentified or “othered” in datasets will be invited to share their experiences and well as data experts promoting “Do No Harm” visualization approaches.

I want to join the Equity Measures and Data Analytics Workgroup

Social Determinants of Health Workgroup Description

Improve efforts within WA hospitals to universally screen for core health-related social needs (housing, transportation, food, utilities, interpersonal violence) and develop workflows to address or connect patients to needed community services.

We will explore approaches to ensure patient privacy and comfort with sharing sensitive needs, care management and CHW models, advocacy and community investment. Workgroup participants will set individual goals and work collaboratively on a project to complete by the end of the year. This group will also be briefed on state and regional progress to establish community information exchanges. Community partners may include ACHs, Medicaid Managed Care Organizations, and community organizations that provide direct social services to patients.

I want to join the Social Determinants of Health Workgroup

Thank you!

Thank you for your interest in the WSHA Health Equity Workgroups. I will be in touch to confirm your participation and to provide next steps. Please reach out if you have questions.

Sincerely,

Abigail Berube, MPH, CPHQ

Director, Safety and Quality

Health Equity, Patient and Family Engagement

abigailb@wsha.org

Pronouns: She/Her

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