Health Equity Measures and Standards

This tool provides hospital quality experts and other health equity stakeholders with a crosswalk of federal government and national hospital equity measures and standards with key information on the measures, performance standards, timelines, and other details which are grouped into 15 health equity topic areas. Specifically, this tool reviews:

• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services health equity measures
• Joint Commission Healthcare Disparities Reduction and Patient-Centered Communication Accreditation Standards
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Healthcare

Disclaimer: This tool is intended to provide a contextual review of the programs noted above. HANYS has made every effort to ensure that the data used to develop this tool were obtained from reliable sources. It is provided as-is. HANYS, including its related affiliates and subsidiaries, is not liable for any decision made or action taken in response to this analysis or the underlying data.