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About Essential Hospitals Institute
Essential Hospitals Institute leads research, education, dissemination, and leadership development for America’s Essential Hospitals. To advance the quality, equity, safety, and affordability of care at essential hospitals, the Institute identifies promising practices in the field, provides professional development training, promotes practice improvements, and disseminates innovative approaches to care. It does this with an eye toward improving individual and population health, especially for underrepresented and marginalized people and communities.
The Workforce Resiliency Action Group will provide leaders at members of America’s Essential Hospitals with tactical and operational strategies to create a more inclusive and representative workforce, ensuring fairness and equity in hiring and retention practices. Essential Hospitals Institute will use the framework and content in “Building Workforce Equity at Essential Hospitals: A Toolkit for Creating and Maintaining a Resilient, Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Workforce” as a curriculum guide. The action group will meet monthly via Zoom, beginning in winter, 2025.
The Climate Resilience and Mitigation Interest Group (CRMIG) will give members the opportunity to share priorities, concerns, and experiences with establishing and improving climate resilience and mitigation efforts within their hospitals and health systems.
The Combating Structural Racism Interest Group consists of more than 100 members with different areas of professional expertise ranging from diversity, equity, and inclusion to government relations to quality improvement. Together, the group examines organizational practices, internal policies, clinical processes, and norms to better understand how structural racism affects their work and to make changes that promote antiracist health care transformation.
Essential Data 2024: Our Hospitals, Our Patients
Essential Data, an annual snapshot of our more than 300 members and the people and communities they serve, tells the story of how essential hospitals overcome significant financial challenges to bring exceptional care to people who face social and economic barriers to good health and health care access.
Through our annual Gage Awards, America’s Essential Hospitals recognizes member hospitals and health systems for successful projects to improve the quality of care and population health.
The awards promote the spread of best practices and innovative programs to other organizations and support the association’s research, policy, and advocacy work by sharing member success stories with our many audiences.
Improving Health Care for Disadvantaged Patients and Communities
Articles and resources dedicated to social determinants of health
Social Determinants of Health
America’s Essential Hospital’s has created a central hub for gathered resources and promising practices to support essential hospitals and their partners in advancing population health. Find innovative programs, explore valuable resources, and view essential milestones all on EssentialCommunities.Org.
The cost of health care services greatly influences clinical decision making and subsequent outcomes, particularly when high costs prevent patients from following recommended treatment. Essential Hospitals Institute is pleased to promote communication about health care costs with all patients in a robust collection of resources developed by a diverse set of stakeholders to promote information sharing about health care costs and related financial constraints.
Grant Opportunities for Essential Hospitals
America’s Essential Hospitals created this grant tracker as a resource for our members. We regularly review private and government grants for opportunities that align with the missions of essential hospitals.