Health Equity

Advancing health equity is a priority for Superior Health which we work to embed across all improvement activities.

Health equity means ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to live a healthy, quality life, regardless of their background and where they live.

Advancing health equity requires coordination and commitment from all partners in all settings including payers, providers, policy makers, regulators, community-based organizations, and communities. Superior Health supports our network of participants to provide more equitable and person-centered care by offering guidance, resources, strategies and interventions to:

• Make health equity a strategic priority.
• Consistently identify and measure disparities in health outcomes.
• Actively work to reduce health disparities.
• Provide person-centered, culturally responsive care through meaningful implementation of the National Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) standards.
• Develop effective multi-sector partnerships across the community.
• Ensure that patients, residents and families from all backgrounds are equal and active partners in their health and well-being and in improving health care. Person and family engagement (PFE) strategies promote person centered care – putting individual needs, perspectives, interests, values and beliefs first.