Patient Engagement April 29, 2024
Hospitals in Mass. are moving forward with health equity through an 1115 waiver, but the state’s Hospital Association is looking long-term.
If there’s anything that sticks out to Massachusetts Hospital Association’s (MHA’s) Izzy Lopes about healthcare’s heightened emphasis on health equity in the last four years, it’s intentionality.
Health equity work has been around for decades, the MHA vice president of Health Equity work said during a recent interview, but it’s the intentionality that’s made all the difference.
“COVID-19 was one of the main things that happened that compelled people to really pay attention to what was happening with regards to healthcare and healthcare access,” according to Lopes.
Indeed, COVID-19 made evident many of the racial health disparities that have...
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