Commitment to Fair and Just Health Care
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Identify health disparities.
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Define specific and actionable goals for addressing any disparities identified.
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Prioritize populations and communities that are historically underserved.
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Establish and implement their organization’s health equity strategy.
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Determine what tools and resources their organization needs to implement its strategy.
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Monitor and evaluate progress in addressing health disparities.
Community Health Roadmap
Health Equity Leadership Council
Catholic Health’s Health Equity Leadership Council champions and stewards our continued advancements in health equity for patients, employees and the Long Island community in a manner consistent with our responsibilities under state and federal law and the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services as interpreted and applied by the Bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre.
Catholic Health is dedicated to ensuring that excellent health outcomes are available to everyone who presents at our facilities or physician practice locations, notwithstanding the social, political, economic or other conditions commonly resulting in and perpetuating injustice or inequity among individuals.
The Council's mission:
- Establish Catholic Health as the most trusted health care system on Long Island by its dedication to justice in its delivery of health services.
- Align the system with its Catholic mission to reach and serve all communities, especially the most vulnerable, through the stewardship and deployment of its resources to advance health equity.
- Increase, improve and leverage community relationships and partnerships to inspire, empower and sustain individuals to augment their health.
- Integrate consideration of health equity into all aspects of the system’s operations.
- Address and ameliorate social determinants of health to improve overall health outcomes and decrease unnecessary hospital admissions and readmissions.
- Meet emerging regulatory and industry requirements relative to health equity.
