Patient Engagement January 20, 2022
Without continuous evaluation of community health needs and hospital capabilities, UI Health said its health equity efforts would grow stale.
For even the most seasoned of hospital systems, health equity work always brings something new. Between the changing needs of the community and the evolving capabilities of the hospital, progress in closing health disparities and supporting health equity requires regular assessment.
Such was the case at UI Health, the academic medical center associated with the University of Illinois at Chicago and its affiliated medical education tracts. Health equity has been baked into everything UI Health does for decades, but that doesn’t mean the organization can skate by without iteration.
“Health equity’s been part of our mission since our inception,”...