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Rise to Health: A National Coalition for Equity in Health Care
Our vision is a transformed health care ecosystem where all people have the power, circumstances, and resources to achieve optimal health.
Together We Will
Build
Build capacity, expand knowledge, and mobilize with concrete skills and tools to advance equity and racial justice in the health care ecosystem and in our communities.
Change
Influence and fundamentally change policy, payment, education, standards, and practices.
Transform
Sustainably change mindsets and narratives within health care around equity and racial justice.
Who We Are
We bring together individuals and organizations committed to equity and justice within the health ecosystem to build, lead and advance shared solutions and collective actions to transform and strengthen health care.
Founding collaborators of the Rise to Health Coalition
We gratefully acknowledge the following organizations for their generous funding support of the Coalition:
Coordinating Action
We unite people and organizations toward action for and commitment to systemic change, and structural impact. We recognize our unique assets, levers, and capabilities to build our collective power. Together, we are committed to a just and equitable health care system.
Individual Practioners
Professional Societies
Health Care Orgs
Pharma, Research & Biotech Orgs
Payers
Focus Impact Areas
To achieve our long-term vision for a transformed health care ecosystem, we have identified four critical impact areas for immediate and collective attention and action.
Access
Ensure that health care services, treatments, and technologies are inclusively designed for and equitably accessible to every individual and community.
Workforce
Build and sustain a diverse, inclusive, and thriving health care workforce equipped to advance racial justice and health equity for patients, communities, and staff.
Social & Structural Drivers of Health
Advance together to leverage our collective strengths, resources, and power to address structural and social drivers of health inequities.
Quality & Safety
Redesign health care systems to reliably deliver equitable, high-quality, and safe care for every single individual and community, with a goal of eliminating unjust differential harms and ultimately improving care for all.
Take Action
Our foundational set of actions and associated activities are grouped into 6 categories or “steps” for collective focus and impact. These inaugural steps are designed to move us through a deepening journey of shared learning and activities that will build momentum and impact over time.
- Commit to acting for equity
Committing to equity as a core mission of your work is a critical first step. Join and help build a learning community of aligned people and organizations advancing a collective vision of equity and justice.
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Get grounded in history and your local context
To effectively, collaboratively, and authentically advance equity in our health care ecosystem, it is important to be grounded in shared history, language, frameworks, assumptions, values, and norms.
- Identify opportunities for improvement
Our innovative solutions are more powerful and effective when the expertise and experience of our patients, staff, and communities, particularly those that have been marginalized, are centered in their design and implementation. This includes the use of data and data justice approaches to identify opportunities for improvement that matter to those we serve and our staff.
- Make equity a strategic priority
Leadership and accountability for advancing equity resides across all levels of our organizations and sectors. This includes a diverse and representative governance structure, centering equity in the design and resourcing of the organizational strategic plan, and connecting the intelligence and guidance of communities to the resources and solutions of the organization.
- Take initiative
When you and/or your organization are grounded in foundational education and history, have used equity informed data to clearly identify opportunities for improvement, and have developed a strategic plan in partnership with people and communities with lived experience, it is time to take action to address these past or ongoing harms.
- Align, invest, and advocate for thriving communities
Advocate for, align with and adopt strategies that build power for local and diverse communities and improve health and wellbeing for all. By dissolving the long-standing boundaries (e.g., by race, class, and other factors) that currently separate many health care organizations from the communities they serve or should serve, we can begin to realign organizational and community thriving as one and the same.
Join Us
Subscribe to the Rise to Health Coalition mailing list below and receive our Starter Actions & Activities and notification when the full website launches in Spring 2023.
Privacy Policy
We at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement ("IHI"), producers of ihi.org and www.risetohealthequity.org, believe that you have the right to know how your personal information may be used or disclosed. You take your privacy seriously, and we respect your concerns. Accordingly, we have created this Privacy Policy in order to describe how we collect information, what we do with it, and what controls you have. Please read it carefully, and if you have any questions or concerns, please send us a comment at compliance@ihi.org. Unless otherwise indicated, this Privacy Policy applies to your use of www.risetohealthquity.org.
If you receive a communication from Rise to Health Coalition (RTHC) indicating that your Information has been collected by RTHC or that you have been registered for www.risetohealthequity.org, your use of the website means that you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. “Information” means information about you that is personally identifiable like your name, address, email address, phone number, areas of interest or data related to your improvement work, your medical condition, medical diagnosis or medical treatment, photographic or video images of you, credit card information, and other information about you that is not otherwise publicly available. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that IHI does not own or control, or to people that IHI does not employ or manage.
Gathering of Information
We collect Information and other data from you in different ways and on many different parts of our website including but not limited to: when you sign up for risetohealthequity.org; when you provide or comment on content; when you use the search function; when you share your improvement goals, stories, tools and other resources; when you contact us for assistance or with questions; when you work for, contract with, or volunteer for IHI or RTHC, or even when you are just perusing the site and reading content.
Access to Information
RTHC, IHI, its contracted faculty, IHI’s interns, project partners and other volunteers, third-party consultants and other service providers, and IHI employees may have access to your Information and other data that you submit or that we collect regarding your use of risetohealthequity.org, on an as-needed basis, for the purposes of performing their respective duties for RTHC. We use all of this Information and data to administer and improve the operations of RTHC and www.risetohealthequity.org.
Aggregate Information or data on visitors to our site and how the site is being used, including the pages users are viewing, will also be logged. Aggregate data does not identify individuals but rather describes data as a whole. We may also share aggregate Information or data with market analysts, advertisers, business partners, sponsors, and any other third parties.
We may also share Information as required by law, to cooperate with legal authorities in a criminal investigation or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights.
Registration
We collect Information when you signup for the mailing list or choose to participate in the activities related to RTHC and risetohealthequity.org. This Information may be updated by you at any time. We will not disclose the Information you submit when you register except as provided in this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use.
By registering, you agree that we may make certain Information (“Public Profile Information”) visible when you contribute content to www.risetohealthequity.org, and when you use or participate in certain site features and tools, including but not limited to Taking Action. Public Profile Information includes: First Name, Last Name, Photo (if you provide one), Credentials (e.g., MD, MPH, MBA), Job Title, Organization Type, Organization Name, City, Country, State/Province/Region, and Areas of Expertise
We may use your Information to send you a newsletter or email messages with updates and notices concerning new content posted to the site and/or products or services that might be of interest to you. Completing the registration information allows us to better understand you, your position, your organization type and interests. If at any time you would like to stop getting general email information you can unsubscribe. However, IHI, its contracted faculty, or its employees may still contact you via email with an individual message or about an offering in which you are participating or enrolled even if you have opted out of receiving email updates from IHI or RTHC.
Contributing Content to RTHC Site
IHI.org encourages your participation through submitting content and participating in the interactive functionality on the website including content, search features, interactive tools, rating or commenting on content, and sharing audio and video content, improvement goals or data, resources, and other tools. If you contribute any content to RTHC or risetohealthequity.org or if you comment on or rate content on the site, or otherwise post content to www.risetohealthequity.org or services in its use, you agree to allow us to make your Public Profile Information publicly available on www.risetohealthequity.org in connection with your activity and to share your name, experience, and credentials in connection with any such contribution.
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You should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any sensitive Information on risetohealthequity.org. We recommend that you never give out your address, phone number, date of birth, or social security number. You may not give out Information about an organization, a patient, or another person or submit other content if you do not have the express authority or permission to share that Information publicly. If you are a clinician or health care professional and submit information regarding treatment of patients, you must only share information that is fully de-identified in accordance with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and its implementing regulations ("HIPAA") and all other applicable federal and state laws and regulations. We may edit or return Information from a clinician or health care provider that contains patient identifying information.
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When visiting risetohealthequity.org, your browser sends information to the site's hosting server identifying the Internet protocol (“IP”) address of your computer (or the proxy server you use to access the World Wide Web), your computer or mobile device operating system and the browser you are using, email patterns, your Internet Service Provider or mobile carrier, the page you last visited, the page you are currently visiting, and the next page you navigate to. We log this Information. We may also track and catalog the search terms that you enter in search forms. We make use of a standard feature of browser software called a "cookie" (including flash cookies) that helps us recognize you when you visit. We store your email address in a cookie file and place the file on the hard drive of your computer. Most browsers accept cookies. However, if you wish, you can usually set your browser to refuse cookies. If you set your browser to refuse cookies, you will need to login to the site each time you visit, and certain features may not work correctly.
To increase the effectiveness of risetohealthequity.org and tailor your experience, we may include a file, called a web beacon, within risetohealthequity.org. The web beacon allows RTHC to provide anonymized, aggregated auditing, research and reporting of use of risetohealthequity.org.
Children's Privacy
RTHC is not directed to minors. RTHC does not knowingly or specifically collect personal information from children under the age of 18. In the event we discover that we have collected information from a minor in a manner inconsistent with federal law, we will either delete the information or immediately seek the parent's consent for such collection.
Third Parties/Links
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Please remember that when you respond to a classified advertisement by email you are sending information to a third party and not to RTHC or risetohealthequity.org. We cannot control the use or security of any Information that you send to a third party, so please be careful.
California Privacy Rights
California law allows California residents to ask companies with whom they have an established business relationship to provide certain information about the company's sharing of personal information with third parties for direct marketing purposes. We do not share any California consumer personal information with third parties for marketing purposes without consent. California residents who wish to request further information about our compliance with this law or have questions or concerns about our privacy practices may contact us at the address provided below.
Security
We use industry-standard SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption technology, a secure server, and other physical and procedural safeguards to protect the security of your personal Information. Please understand, however, that no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that the Information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to us over the Internet. Please keep any passwords private. We will never ask for a password by phone or email, and neither should anyone else.
You may wish to delete unknown email attachments before opening them as they can contain destructive viruses. Remember that nothing you write on the Web is completely private — including email.
Updating Your Information
Please contact RTHC should you need to view or update any of your personal information.
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Contacting Us
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