CommonSpirit Health, which operates St. Elizabeth Hospital in Fort Morgan, has about $1 million to give away to nonprofits in its Mountain Region that provide health supports for those in need. The ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has pulled information on health equity for the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) through Section 1115 waivers. Now, CMS is ...

Over the past decade or so, health systems have been adding new roles to their leadership teams, such as chief innovation officer, chief population health officer and chief wellness officer. Last ...

Community groups can apply to a $3.8 million pot of money to put programs on for residents that are related to wellness and physical fitness or to host other health services to prevent obesity, heart ...

Promote the idea that health equity is a core competency of governance (for more information, see Non-Profit Hospital Governance: Overview on Practical Law). Explain that governing bodies that take ...

Presenters from CMS and the CDC explored the importance of standardizing health equity data collection at the 2024 CMS Health Equity Conference. Meagan Khau, MHA, director of the Data Analytics & ...

Since 2021, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS’s) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (Innovation Center) has been guided by a renewed vision to build “a health system that ...

Digital technologies, from telemedicine and AI to social media, are now deeply embedded in public health systems, healthcare delivery, and everyday health ...

Health equity—the concept that every person has a fair and just opportunity to attain their maximum level of health—has never rung more true in today's highly driven healthcare world. Yet despite ...