Health Equity

Our Mission

To improve the health and healing of all.

Our Health Equity Commitment

We commit to specific actions that measurably improve access, intentionally eliminate barriers and create opportunity for all.

 

Contact us: centerforequity@hhchealth.org

 

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HHC Center for Health Equity

The HHC Center for Health Equity offers a deep understanding of the factors that enhance the health of all people and uses qualitative and quantitative data to develop comprehensive, accessible interventions that improve the health status and outcomes of all we serve.  

Our success grows from two, interrelated domains:

Health Equity – Provides expertise to analyze and address disparate health experiences across populations and within our health system. We support and encourage efforts to improve health experiences and quality for all through policy development, program and service improvements, research and analysis and other actions that help achieve health equity. 

Community Health and Engagement – Through community-based partnerships, direct service and support, advocacy, data collection and analysis and business practice reforms, this team works to promote health and improve health outcomes for all. Working with individuals and organizations, we proactively assess needs and learn from community experience and expertise to build trust and achieve health equity across the communities we serve.

When the expertise of Health Equity and Community Health and Engagement are integrated, we can build and improve systems, services and practices that enable all people to live their healthiest lives.

Building healthier communities

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Every day, Hartford HealthCare touches 23,000 lives. See stories about how our programs and partnerships are making an impact.

Neighborhood Health

Our Neighborhood Health initiative is designed to bring more health prevention services and support directly to the people and communities we serve.

Community Benefit

Hartford HealthCare’s multi-million dollar investment in people and the communities they live in.

Community Health Needs Assessment / Community Health Improvement Plan

A systematic approach to determining the health status, behaviors and needs of residents in Hartford HealthCare’s service areas.

Community Resources

Community partnerships that help providers find community resources for patients.

Health Equity in the News

August 16, 2024

Grants help HHC neuroscience teams explore more equitable, accessible care

Patients often face various barriers to quality healthcare, a concept that fueled researchers with three specialty programs at Hartford HealthCare’s [...]

April 26, 2024

IOL Launches New Center to Explore Impact of Racial Trauma

Hartford Hospital’s Institute of Living launched the Center for Research on Racial Trauma and Community Healing, a one-of-a-kind research center. [...]

November 01, 2023

HHC Center for Equity sets a bold agenda for health and healing

Almost 200 colleagues and community advocates gathered Tuesday (Oct. 31, 2023) for the launch of Hartford HealthCare’s Center for Equity. [...]

October 19, 2023

Meriden Secures $2 Million Federal Grant to Combat Opioid Epidemic

A $2 million federal grant and the donation of an ambulance means the Meriden Opioid Referral for Recovery (MORR) program [...]

August 05, 2022

Pop Star’s Choice of Pronouns Strikes a Chord

Human nature is to categorize things in our world, but Demi Lovato’s recent admission that her gender identity changes based [...]

July 13, 2022

New Center for Gender Health Offers Services Vital to Transgender Patients

In an effort to improve access to care for transgender adults, Hartford HealthCare has opened a Center for Gender Health. [...]