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Antiracist Documentation Practices
New NEJM publication examines the use of race in provider documentation and highlights recommendations for documentation practices that encourage antiracism. Antiracist Documentation Practices — Shaping Clinical Encounters and Decision Making | NEJM ...

Food Access Support Technology Platform (FAST): Evaluating Our Impact
New publication evaluates the Food Access Support Technology (FAST). FAST is a centralized platform that brings immediate relief to individuals deeply impacted by food insecurity across Philadelphia. Read the full evaluation at: Food Access Support Technology (FAST): a Centralized City-Wide ...

Case Study Highlights the Impact of the Penn Medicine Social Needs Response Team
New publication in NEJM Catalyst highlights how the Penn Medicine Social Needs Response Team, a virtual team of interprofessional graduate level students, worked together to screen patients for social needs and helped navigate local resources. Read the full case study ...

Highlighting the LGBTQ Health Program at Penn Medicine
In celebration of Pride, CHEA would like to highlight Rosemary (Rose) Thomas, MPH, CHES (she/her), the Associate Director of Penn Medicine Program for LGBTQ Health, as well as CHEA’s Director of Operations. Rose has been working with the LGBTQ Health ...

Health Equity Week 2023 Summary
Thank you to all who attended Health Equity Week 2023! We held three events throughout the week with over 300 attendees. The week kicked off with our keynote speakers, Drs. Ana Pujols-McKee and Christina Cordero. They delivered a captivating presentation ...

Introducing HEAL: Health Equity Advancement Lab
Dr. Jaya Aysola is proud to introduce the Health Equity Advancement Lab (HEAL)! The purpose of HEAL is to support researchers in advancing the science of operationalizing equity and inclusion within our clinical and learning environments. Our research has focused ...

Celebrating Thanksgiving
Today, we celebrate Thanksgiving, one of America's longest standing holidays. It's been celebrated since the 17th century, commemorating a dinner between European settlers and Native Americans. As we celebrate and consider what we are thankful for, we cannot ignore the ...

Representation of Asian American Populations in Medical School Curricula
An original investigation published in JAMA Network Open examined how Asian Americans populations are represented in medical school curricula. Alongside CHEA researchers, 4 medical students undertook this project to inform recommendations for the appropriate use of race/ethnicity in medical schools ...

CHEA’s Learning Collaborative & the Hospital Quality Incentive Program (HQIP)
CHEA is proud to announce the launch of a three-year Learning Collaborative to support the implementation of the Hospital Quality Incentive Program (HQIP) focused on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities (REHD). The purpose of this learning collaborative is to address ...

Celebrating Juneteenth
This Sunday, we celebrated the holiday of Juneteenth. This year, the holiday is being federally recognized today, June 20th. On June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Texas were notified that slavery was federally ended by the arrival of 2,000 Union ...

CHEA Spotlight: Eugenia South
For June’s CHEA spotlight, we are featuring Dr. Eugenia South. She received her MD from Washington University School of Medicine and her MSHP (Master’s of Science in Health Policy) from the University of Pennsylvania as a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical ...

Society of General Internal Medicine 2022 Award
Congratulations to Casey Rickus, Dr. Jaya Aysola and Dr. Kira Ryskina for their recognition at the 2022 Society of General Internal Medicine meeting! They were honored with the Distinguished Professor of Hospital Medicine Best Poster Award for the poster titled ...