Staff Contact: Leslie Porth or Mat Reidhead
During its February 2021 meeting, the MHA Board of Trustees established a standing Health Equity Committee comprised of leadership and experts in diversity and inclusion from hospitals and health systems across the state. The committee is tasked with steering MHA’s strategic initiatives surrounding health equity promotion, promulgating policies and best practices, and developing assistive research and analytic solutions to assist multisectoral stakeholders with identifying vexing health and social disparities within hyperlocal areas in Missouri.
With guidance from the committee and focus groups comprised of subject matter experts from across the state, MHA Quality, Safety and Research staff recently developed a suite of four health equity-focused dashboards that offer previously unavailable granularity in health outcomes, health factors and social determinants of health for finite population segments and geographic areas in Missouri.
The dashboards, documentation and data dictionary all are available on MHA’s website.