Toolkit to help palliative care professionals better understand current disparities in palliative care outcomes and design more equitable, patient-centered care approaches.

Individuals with behavioral health diagnoses who are released from jails are less likely to return to jail if they receive behavioral health services after release.

Implementation of the Age-Friendly Health Systems approach within a Federally Qualified Health Center can improve patient care process outcomes and improve access to care for rural older adults.

This description and application of a valid and reliable measure of equity of inpatient hospital experiences can help hospitals collect better data to meaningfully promote high-quality equitable care.

Black caregivers of people with dementia share their perspectives on a care coordination intervention.

Medicare beneficiaries with dementia, especially Black and Hispanic patients, often receive poor quality end-of-life care.

Peer support specialists can link patients with substance use disorders to treatment, but this study showed disparate outcomes for how one program impacted access to care for Black and white patients.

Racial disparities in long-term care facilities impact quality of life for residents who are Black, Indigenous, or other persons of color.

With the steep increase in use of telehealth and video visits in the last few years, the reliance on technology-enabled medicine may heighten disparities in health care access.

Reveals inequities in how aging adults’ care preferences are taken into account based on race/ethnicity, income, health insurance status, and other variables.

Black, Hispanic, and low-income patients are significantly less likely to receive care from high-quality home health agencies.

Medical notes about Black patients were more than twice as likely to contain stigmatizing language compared to white patients.

Identifies opportunities for nursing homes to support more equitable and low-intensity care for nursing facility residents with advanced dementia.

Advancing more equitable access to telehealth may require care coordination strategies deployed alongside telehealth.

Supports the use of telehealth and technology-assisted services to increase access to care and improve outcomes for people who use drugs.

Global budgets for hospitals reduced expenditures and utilization for some Medicare subpopulations with complex health and social needs, yet disparities existed for some subgroups.

Analysis of 310 health systems showed gaps in opioid receipt between Black and white patients, especially on dosage, which may be related to racial bias among clinicians.

Black Medicaid enrollees who spent more days in the emergency department or county jail were less likely than white enrollees to receive medications for opioid use disorder.

Trust, flexible funding, cross-sector support, sustainability, and an explicit focus on structural racism are identified as key components of effective community engagement to advance health equity.

Offers practical recommendations to improve telemedicine interventions to be more equitable for diverse populations, particularly those with low incomes.