Health Care Services among Racial/Ethnic Group
In no more than 500 words please respond to the following prompt:
The National Institute for Children’s Health Quality recently developed a strategy for combating racism in health care settings, called the Equity Empowered System. You learned about this in the assigned webinar this week, and can review a shorthand version here: https://www.nichq.org/insight/savior-designed-equity-empowered-systems .
Consider a health system you are very familiar with. This may be a system you work in, a system that you have engaged with as a patient, or any other health care system you have interacted with frequently.
1. What is your relationship with this system?
2. Do you think this system most closely fits a Savior-Designed, Ally, or Equity Empowered model? Explain.
3. Suggest and describe 2-3 specific actions this system to could take to follow an Equity Empowered model. Be specific and detail how your health system would do this .
4. How might an Equity Empowered health care system change the patient experience? What changes in patient outcomes would you expect to see?
