Meet Equity Transformation Partners
Advance health equity within your organization and community through the vetted services of AHA Equity Transformation Partners (ETP).
In 2022, the IFDHE launched a Health Equity Roadmap to support American Hospital Association (AHA) members on their health equity journey. It features six levers, or key performance indicators, of transformation.
Almost 1,500 member organizations have started the Health Equity Roadmap journey by taking the Health Equity Transformation Assessment (HETA) to evaluate where their organization is on its health equity journey. Through HETA, AHA members are given a tailored action plan and access to resources and toolkits that lay out steps to progress from one stage to the next.
As an additional step to support the advancement towards equity transformation, the AHA is offering our new Equity Transformation Partner (ETP) program. The ETP program’s goal is to identify an exclusive group of trusted and vetted services to help AHA member hospitals accelerate their equity journey. The program connects AHA members to trusted practitioners and service providers committed to equity transformation work. These highly reputable, qualified service providers in the diversity, inclusion and health equity space must demonstrate alignment with the Health Equity Roadmap framework.
Equity Transformation Partners
About Chartis
Chartis is a comprehensive healthcare advisory firm dedicated to helping clients build a healthier world. We work across the healthcare continuum with more than 600 clients annually, including providers, payers, health services organizations, technology and retail companies, and investors. Through times of change, challenge, and opportunity, we advise the industry on how to navigate disruption, pursue growth, achieve financial sustainability, unleash technology, improve care models and operations, enhance clinical quality and safety, and advance health equity.
The teams we convene bring deep industry expertise and industry-leading innovation, enabling clients to achieve transformational results and create positive societal impact. Health equity and belonging have become focal points for our firm, as we continue to guide clients through healthcare transformation. We are committed to helping build a healthcare system that is equitable, fair, and dedicated to serving all people and all communities—creating a healthier world for all of us.
The Chartis Center for Health Equity & Belonging is focused on creating a liberated healthcare system free of bias, discrimination, and disparities—resulting in equitable health for all. We help organizations accelerate the promise of health equity by offering them six primary solutions:
- Health Equity & Belonging Strategic Plan
- Health Equity & Belonging Board of Directors Roadmap
- Health Equity Service Line Optimization Playbook
- Health Equity Impact Assessment
- Community Health Transformation Playbook
- Health Equity & Belonging Learning and Behavior Change Plan
About Impact4Health
Impact4Health, LLC, is a subsidiary of InclusionINC which was founded in 2001 as a woman owned business and dedicated to fostering a commitment to inclusion as a business strategy. In 2015, Impact4Health was created to assist hospitals and healthcare systems develop comprehensive multidisciplinary and systemic solutions that reduce healthcare inequities. We do this using executive advisory services, current state analysis, strategic planning and community engagement efforts. Its principals and senior executive consultants bring a combined 110 years of experience in patient advocacy, community engagement, DEI, crisis communications, change management and executive coaching experience.
Impact4Health recognizes that healthcare leaders are focused on many issues - paramount of these are resolving inequities, reducing the total cost of care, retaining their team members, and engaging their community. We provide perspective and solutions to assess capabilities, establish direction, and align best practices that deliver equitable health outcomes. Our work begins by creating a strategic partnership with a site’s healthcare leaders and developing a launch strategy for completing the Health Equity Transformation Assessment.
Under the direction of Dr. Maria Hernandez, Impact4Health created the Inclusion Scorecard for Population Health™ in 2017 and has used this as an integral part of the firm’s effort to “operationalize health equity” in partnership with Chief Health Equity Officers, Chief Diversity Officers and Chief Medical Officers by identifying key best practices that support culturally responsive care. In partnership with InclusionINC, we have conducted employee engagement surveys featuring questions from our Global Inclusion Index. Impact4Health has also worked across the country designing custom on-site and web-enabled training for providers, frontline staff and senior leaders to foster inclusive workplace cultures that better support diverse communities. The Inclusive Leader 360™ is a one-of-a-kind measure to enhance a leader’s ability to reduce the impact of unconscious bias and develop more effective relationships among diverse staff.
TruLite Health offers the industry’s first comprehensive health equity platform committed to breaking the chain of systemic inequity in healthcare and rebuilding patient trust. TruLite Health supports health systems to address health equity at organizational scale, improve patient outcomes, lower the overall cost of care, and aligns to the new health equity regulatory requirements of The Joint Commission and CMS.
Truity™, our enterprise solution, uniquely addresses the impact of clinical bias by combining a proprietary clinical knowledge base of health equity insights and recommendations with patient-specific clinical and social data sets, enabling care teams to offer actionable clinical, social, and behavioral interventions at the point of care for diverse populations. Key capabilities are:
- Knowledge Base – Drawing from the largest curated health equity knowledge base of peer-reviewed articles, the relevant clinical elements and are made actionable for use by care team members seamlessly within the EMR workflow.
- Matching Engine - The core of the Truity solution is the ability to leverage the depth of the condition-based health equity information, match it to specific patient’s health and social data within the workflow.
- Care Team Portal - Truity seamlessly integrates into the EMR workflow for optimal use during the patients’ visit. Additionally, the care team can access the health equity information for specific patient information or continuing education credit.
- Patient Portal - Patient education is a critical element in building trust and better outcomes. Truity provides the same health equity clinical information, written at a middle school level, to the patient that is provided to the care team.
- Coaching Portal – Developed in partnership with the Morehouse School of Medicine, health equity coaches work with patients on clinical education, health related social needs, and advocacy skills as a key driver to long-term behavior change and improved outcomes.
- Reporting Portal - Care team and patient data can be accessed in real-time and provides organizational oversight to quickly review, analyze and optimize the performance of the health equity solution enabled across service lines.
