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Yale New Haven Health launches “We Ask Because We Care” campaign to reduce and eliminate healthcare disparities
Yale New Haven Health System’s (YNHHS) Office of Health Equity & Community Impact (OHECI) has launched the “We Ask Because We Care” campaign. This campaign supports the continued collection of accurate patient demographic data and examines awareness of how this data is critical to efforts to eliminate healthcare disparities.
“In order for us to unpack the long-lasting disparities that we see in our country, it’s very important for us as a healthcare system to get to know our patients,” said Lou Hart, MD, medical director, Health Equity for YNHHS and assistant professor, pediatrics, Yale School of Medicine. “When it comes to disparities in terms of who has access to care, what type of care are they receiving inside the healthcare system and then what are their long-term health outcomes, without having this information on who our patents really are, we can’t determine if people are being treated differently or some patient groups are having worse outcomes from others”.
Source: YNHHS