Below are some featured publications highlighting voices from Compact members, Compact member organizations, and our ongoing work.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts has found vast disparities along racial lines in cancer screenings, maternal outcomes, rates of adolescent well visits, and other measures.
State leaders question what goes unseen by the entirely white and mostly male Health Policy Commission—and how they can truly address health equity when lacking representation.
According to new data from the Center for Health Information and Analysis, Black and Hispanic residents were 60% and 110% more likely to visit the emergency room for non-emergency conditions, respectively.
Back in June, a study conducted by the Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association (MHA) found that nursing vacancies in hospitals across the state increased over the last three years. Now, almost six months since the original study, the problem persists.
Black and Hispanic residents were far more likely than white residents to visit hospital emergency departments for care, even before the pandemic, according to a new state analysis released Wednesday.
Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA), a community health system serving Cambridge, Somerville and Boston’s metro-north communities, has been ranked as the number one hospital in Massachusetts (with an A grade) for Health Equity by the Lown Institute, a nonpartisan healthcare think tank.
New Bedford, Massachusetts – The New Bedford Health Department and the Health Equity Compact (HEC) will be hosting the Color of Care – Southeastern MA Health Equity Forum to discuss solutions to health disparities in our region. The event will take place on Tuesday, November...
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The funding to the Boston Public Health Commission will go toward developing equitable responses and preventions for homelessness and substance use disorders.
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare yawning inequities in the way people live and die in Massachusetts.
Calling for breakthrough policy change at the highest levels of state government and across institutions, Black and Latinx leaders from throughout Massachusetts today announced the formation of a coalition to advocate for and advance health equity in the Commonwealth.
The Health Equity Compact wishes to recognize founding supporters JSI Research & Training Institute, Inc., and Foley Hoag LLP for their invaluable work: JSI for technical assistance and research from the very beginning of the Compact; and Foley Hoag for pro bono legal skill and expertise in developing and writing An Act to Advance Health Equity.
