How CAPC's Health Equity Guide Aims to Improve Care for Black Patients Living with Serious Illness
A Helio article features an interview with CAPC's Brittany Chambers, MPH, MCHES, covering CAPC's new comprehensive guide, Advancing Equity for Black Patients with Serious Illness. In the interview, Brittany explains how the guide provides a roadmap for organizations to generate sustainable health equity interventions to address inequities that Black people face when living with a serious illness, such as poorer quality pain management, clinician-patient relationships and communication, and more. She also discusses the motivation for the guide, who may find it helpful, recommendations (such as interventions and actions providers can take), and much more.
Per Brittany, “Everyone has a stake in this, and everyone can do something. Sometimes health equity seems like such a big issue, and people might not realize that they can make a difference. Our guide’s real intention is to show that doing anything still moves the needle and gets us toward optimal care for all patients.”