Report: Racial Health Equity Learning Action Network 2024 Summary

Report: Racial Health Equity Learning Action Network 2024 Summary

Introduction

In December 2021, the HAP Board approved a pathway for HAP to support Pennsylvania hospitals in advancing health equity collaboratively. Guided by a steering committee comprised of hospital-affiliated equity and DEI leaders from across the commonwealth, the Board directed HAP staff to establish a learning and action network (a dynamic collaborative like those previously established to support readmission and harm reduction as well as improvements in substance use disorder treatment) to meet hospitals where they are on their racial health equity journey and support hospitals in working together to eradicate racial inequities in health care services. Building on aligned commitment to ensuring that every Pennsylvanian receives high-quality, equitable health care, HAP established the Racial Health Equity Learning Action Network (RHELAN) to convene Pennsylvania hospitals and health systems to work collaboratively to identify and confront systemic inequality and structural racism in health care.

The following report summarizes RHELAN activities during 2024, documents HAP's support of the Pennsylvania hospital community's ongoing efforts to identify and address racial inequities in health care and discusses next steps in leveraging learning obtained and infrastructure built this year to address persistent maternal health inequities.

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Topics: Health Care Reform, Public Health, Quality Initiatives

Revision Date: 1/16/2025

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