Forbes | Fixing Health Equity and Access: Is Collaboration the Answer?

Health systems must be adequately funded, staffed, and designed to support health equity across today’s diverse populations.

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Building and staffing health systems have historically relied on supply-and-demand metrics: determine the health profile of a community and hire the appropriate staff to match the care needs of the population.

But that equation no longer adds up.

The industry is experiencing large gaps in care and patient access admist ongoing labor shortages – all of which are hindering health equity programs.

How can we enact real change?

Recently featured in Forbes, Ted Chien, highlights how tax-exempt health care organizations must band together to:

• Modernize our health care system to secure a stable and high-performing workforce

• Gather comprehensive data to help prioritize initiatives and develop strategies that mutually benefit systems and patients. 

• Maintain accountability by setting standard performance measures and benchmarking progress against them