Patient Engagement March 22, 2024
Nearly every organization plans to maintain their current health equity investments, with 73 percent saying they may increase their equity priorities.
Health equity efforts will almost certainly maintain their pace over the next year, as healthcare leaders assert that equitable care and closing of heath disparities is a social, ethical, and political priority, according to Ernst and Young’s Health Equity Outlook Report.
The report, out in its second iteration from EY’s Center for Health Equity, detailed a survey of nearly 500 health equity officers. Nearly every respondent (98 percent) said their organization’s health equity efforts will remain at current levels, and 92 percent said they think their organization’s financial investments into health equity will increase going into 2024.
About three-quarters...