The Long-Term Care Equality Index advocates for LGBTQ+ inclusive policies and procedures in long-term care settings.

An overview of NYC Health + Hospital’s implementation of a primary care-based social needs screening and referral program, including key implementation challenges and success factors.

Highlighted how Denver Health, a large health system in Colorado, is integrating a trauma- and resilience-informed approach into organization-wide policy and practice.

A home-based collaborative care model using community health workers shows reductions in depression and increased connection to services for older adults.

A provider tool that promotes person-centered and equitable care by recognizing and avoiding bias in electronic health record notes.

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.

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.

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.

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

Includes patient- and staff-reported measures to help complex care programs better understand the impacts of interventions.

Disparities in transitional care training for caregivers of older adults based on race or financial status demonstrate need for changes in discharge processes and strategies to address bias.