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A Toolkit for Collecting Race, Ethnicity, and Primary Language Information from Patients
Toolkit helps users to understand the importance of collecting accurate data on race, ethnicity, and primary language of persons with limited English proficiency and/or who are deaf or hard of hearing, and assess their organizational capacity to implement a systematic framework for obtaining this data efficiently, effectively, and respectfully.o discuss the work of the Collaborative for Community Wellness and how this work is advancing the health of communities.

Race, Ethnicity, Language Data Collection Best Practices
Guidelines recommended by Cincinnati Expecting Success Race, Ethnicity, & Language (REL) Data Collection Workgroup. These best practices were developed primarily for use by hospitals and health systems.

PRAPARE Implementation and Action Toolkit
A modularized toolkit containing resources and best practices to help guide interested users in each step of implementing PRAPARE (Patients’ Assets, Risks, and Experiences) to identify and act on the social determinants of health.

A Practical Guide to Implementing the National CLAS Standards: For Racial and Linguistic Minorities, People with Disabilities and Sexual and Gender Minorities
Intended for organizations that have already decided to pursue CLAS, to improve equity and eliminate health care disparities; not a decision guide about whether to implement National CLAS Standards.

Race and Ethnicity Data Improvement Toolkit
Provides practical tools and guidance to organizations interested in improving their collection of hospital patient race, ethnicity, and primary language data. It presents the combined experience of several Enhanced State Data grantees that embarked on data quality improvement projects in their states.

A Framework for Stratifying Race, Ethnicity and Language Data
Provides a five-step framework that allows hospitals and care systems to stratify patient data for the purpose of identifying health care disparities.

New York State Toolkit to Reduce Health Care Disparities: Improving Race and Ethnicity Data
Assessment toolkit for health care organizations to implement a systematic framework designed specifically for obtaining race and ethnicity data in an efficient, effective and respectful manner.

Reducing Health Care Disparities: Collection and Use of Race, Ethnicity and Language Data
This guide includes two sections that address both collection and use of REAL data. The first section provides a four-step approach on how to obtain an accurate and usable REAL data set. The second section discusses how hospitals and care systems can use REAL data to achieve clinical, operational, financial, and population health benefits.

Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data Standardization for Health Care Quality Improvement
Report offers a standardized approach to identification and granular classification of racial, ethnic, and language categories that cause disparities in health care and health outcomes.

Sexual and Gender Minority Clearinghouse
Resources to improve the understanding of sexual and gender minority health and disparities, and provide information on health care access, health-related risk behaviors, chronic health conditions, and use of preventive services. Such as surveys that include questions about sexual identity, attraction, and behavior; data on gender identity and household relationships.

SOGI Data Collection Demonstration Videos
These videos demonstrate best practices in sexual orientation and gender identity data collection. They address common questions and issues that arise for frontline and clinical staff when asking patients about their sexual orientation and gender identity.

Ready, Set, Go! Guidelines and Tips for Collecting Patient Data on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
Guide to help health centers successfully collect SO/GI data. For those just beginning, the guide can be used from start to finish. For those that already created a system, but have encountered challenges and questions, this guide can help address them.

Healthcare Equality Index LGBTQ
In addition to being a valuable tool and resource for healthcare facilities, the HEI is used by LGBTQ patients and their loved ones to find facilities that provide equitable and inclusive care.

Do Ask, Do Tell: A Toolkit for Collecting Data on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Clinical Settings
An online toolkit on sexual orientation and gender identity data collection in clinical settings and electronic health records.

A Toolkit for Collecting Data on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Electronic Health Records: Taking the Next Steps
An online toolkit on sexual orientation and gender identity data collection in clinical settings and electronic health records.

PRAPARE Assessment Tool: Protocol for Responding to and Assessing Patients’ Assets, Risks, and Experiences
Resource to help health centers and others collect data to better understand and act on their patients’ social determinants of health. Consists of a set of national core measures as well as a set of optional measures for community priorities.

AHCS: Accountable Health Communities Screening Tool (Health-Related Social Needs Screening Tool
A tool to help providers create patients’ treatment plans and make referrals to community services for five, core needs: housing instability, food insecurity, transportation problems, and utility assistance.

Care Well: Addressing Social Determinants of Health from Bedside to Boardroom
A resource listing some of the most popular resources of the AHA to help clinical and administrative leaders better understand and address social determinants of health.

Social Determinants of Health Series: Transportation and the Role of the Hospital
Guide explains the link between transportation and health and discusses the role of hospitals and health systems in addressing transportation issues, improving access and helping design and support better transportation options.

Social Determinants of Health Series: Housing and the Role of Hospitals
Guide includes five case studies about hospitals and health systems engaging in innovative programs to address different housing issues in their communities. It is the second guide in a series of resources from the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) and Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI) on how hospitals can address the social determinants of health.

Social Determinants of Health Series: Food Insecurity and the Role of Hospitals
Guide discusses the link between food insecurity and health issues, the role of hospitals in identifying food-insecure individuals and households to help address this determinant of health, and includes case examples of several hospitals and health systems working to address food insecurity and seeing solid results.

Hospitals Against Violence
Shares examples and best practices regarding prevention strategies and program development on national, state and local levels to help end violence in our communities and to help hospital employees cope with the impact of violence. Has a particular emphasis on youth violence prevention, workplace violence prevention and combatting human trafficking.

ICD-10 CM Coding for Social Determinants of Health
Coding tool available to hospitals to capture data on the socioeconomic needs of their patients, which identify non-medical factors that may influence a patient’s health status.

Building a Culturally Competent Organization: The Quest for Equity in Health Care
Guide explores the concept of cultural competency and its enhancement in health care. Contains case studies from high-performing hospitals, self-assessment checklists for hospital leaders, and a list of relevant cultural competency resources.

4 Ways Health Care Organizations Can Utilize the Implicit Association Test (IAT)
A tool used to educate and strengthen the health care workforce by making staff aware of implicit biases and begin to address them.

National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC)
Site contains self-assessment, distance learning, and other resources to address growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental health equity.

The Role of Cultural Competency in Eliminating Health Care Disparities
Webinar featuring the 2015 AHA Equity of Care Award honorees, AnMed Health and Rush University Medical Center, that highlights the role of cultural competency in eliminating health care disparities.

Chair File: Building a Culturally Competent Organization: Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute
Background about the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute’s work to ensure every person in every community receives high quality, equitable care.

Data and Cultural Competence -- AnMed Health
A case study on AnMed Health as part of the Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina series on identifying innovative and effective approaches to improve population health inside and outside of the hospital walls.

Creating Organizations that Advance Equitable and Compassionate Care
Webinar as part of IFDHE’s Diversity Dialogue series in which Regional Health shared insights on achieving positive outcomes for its work in health equity.

Creating Effective Hospital-Community Partnerships to Build a Culture of Health
This guide, released by the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), focuses on how hospitals and communities can develop and sustain partnerships.

A Playbook for Fostering Hospital-Community Partnerships to Build a Culture of Health
Playbook provides a framework for cultivating effective partnerships between hospitals and community organizations, with valuable and practical tools, easily accessible worksheets and actionable strategies to build consensus and accountability within the partnership.

CDC Community Health Improvement Navigator
Tools and resources to help collaborative community health improvement (CHI) efforts, including guidance on how to conduct community health needs assessments (CHNAs), community health assessments (CHAs), and much more.

2016 Committee on Research Next Generation of Community Health
Report explores what the next generation of community health may look like as hospitals redefine themselves to keep pace with the changing health care landscape.

Association for Community Health Improvement: Community Health Assessment Toolkit
Toolkit offers a nine-step pathway for conducting a CHA and developing implementation strategies.

Hospital and Health Systems Ensuring Access in Their Communities: A Compendium of Case Examples
Report contains nine emerging strategies from which communities may select based on their unique needs, support structures and preferences.

The Patient’s Voice: Integrating the Community Voice in Care Delivery
Webinar: HCC teams Holy Name Medical Center and MultiCare Health System shared their hospitals respective journeys towards providing the best screening and educational programs by integrating the voice of the communities they serve.