The Office of Health Equity In 2013, Nationwide Children's Hospital created the Office of Health Equity to help identify and eliminate health disparities across the institution. Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and quality health care. Our mission is to create a “health equity culture” with a goal of zero disparities in all quality, clinical, safety and service work at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
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Within the past year, the Office of Health Equity has accomplished the following:
Global “Health Equity” initiatives included in the 2017-22 NCH Strategic Plan
Creation of the first Chief Diversity & Health Equity Officer role
A pilot project initiated to enter Sexual Orientation & Gender Identity in EPIC (electronic medical records)
Jane Goleman, MD, Health Equity Medical Lead, published Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve HPV Initiation at 9 Yrs., in Academic Pediatrics
Senior leaders signed the American Hospital Association’s 123Equity of Care Pledge
Began quarterly distribution of a Health Equity Snapshot to highlight data, projects and resources at NCH
Health Disparities Inventory was developed to track NCH quality improvement projects aimed at addressing health disparities
Expanded the Medical Legal Partnership between Nationwide Children's and The Legal Aid Society of Columbus.
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