Our Goal is Equal Life Expectancy for All People

We acknowledge that centuries of inequity in medical care and society have led to totally different well being outcomes, expectations, and experiences for various populations.

Acknowledging our medical heart’s position on this historical past, we and our associates are working throughout each mission—affected person care, analysis, training, and neighborhood—to scale back well being inequities. We need to assist everybody be as wholesome as they are often, no matter their background, id, or the place they stay.

Community engagement is important to this work. We respectfully hearken to and be taught from the communities we serve to establish well being priorities and to collaborate with companions to handle them.

Actions We’re Taking

Community Health Improvement

Through Community Health Needs Assessment and Improvement Plans, our Rochester-based Strong Memorial and Highland hospitals actively collaborate with different native hospitals and the Monroe County Department of Public Health to handle well being priorities in our residence county.

Building on this work, the Center for Community Health & Prevention works with companions to enhance the well being of communities in Monroe County and throughout the area we serve. Through illness prevention and wholesome dwelling packages, analysis, training, and coverage, we work to create environments that promote wholesome behaviors. Our Community Advisory Council brings collectively individuals who symbolize and serve traditionally marginalized teams; it serves as an ongoing discussion board for URMC to obtain suggestions and steering on our health-improvement initiatives. 

Public Policy Engagement

Through constant engagement with native Neighborhood Association leaders, neighborhood advisory boards, and resident enterprise associations, our Office of Government and Community Relations actively listens to neighborhood suggestions to raised inform our well being fairness efforts and assist more healthy communities. We additionally collaborate with federal, state, and native authorities and neighborhood leaders to assist insurance policies that promote well being fairness. 

Educating the Next Generation

As a tutorial medical heart, we’re in a singular place to coach the following era of caregivers in supporting well being fairness. We’re instructing residents and fellows to identify and deal with disparities in their very own practices.

Our School of Medicine and Dentistry created the famend biopsychosocial model of medical training, which teaches college students to think about the entire affected person and the complexities of their lives. Our health-care suppliers are skilled to be delicate to individuals’s circumstances, not simply their diseases or ailments. Understanding the broader context of individuals’s lives informs all of our missions, together with affected person care and analysis.

Anti-Racism in Action

Staff members, physicians, medical college students, residents, and trainees from throughout the Medical Center labored with neighborhood teams and people to develop our Equity & Anti-Racism Action Plan. The plan has guided us to alter inside insurance policies and practices in ways in which replicate our dedication to inclusivity and fairness. We even have set, measurable milestones to guarantee progress towards reaching our final objective: equal life expectancy for everybody.