Organizational Cultural Competence

Organizational Cultural Competence: Improving the cultural and linguistic capacity of a health care organization.

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  • Community Engagement

    Working with patients, families, and community representatives to design, implement, and evaluate health care services.

  • Leadership Development

    Educating managers, boards of directors, and other institutional leaders about the value of cultural and linguistic competence practices and encouraging them to support those practices. Developing leadership qualities in individuals and organizations in the cultural competence field.

  • Organizational Assessments and Measurement

    Measuring and evaluating the cultural and linguistic competence of health care organizations.

  • Organizational Plans Policies and Management Strategies

    Integrating cultural and linguistic competence into health care organization plans, policies, and management strategies.

  • Patient Demographic Data

    Collecting and using race, ethnicity, and language data to plan, improve, and evaluate health services and to reduce health disparities.

  • Quality Improvement

    Linking cultural and linguistic competence practices to organizational quality initiatives.

  • Workforce Diversity

    Training and recruiting to increase the diversity of health care organization staff and manage issues that arise in a multicultural work environment.

Health Matters in San Francisco

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This project is designed to provide a clear and dynamic path forward in promoting the health priorities of San Francisco.  The Community Benefit Partnership has taken steps to:

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Website, Asian American, Community Education, Hispanic/Latino, Community Engagement, Multicultural/Mixed Populations

U-Health: Better Data, Better Decisions, Better Outcomes

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This partnership is the first-ever coalition of university presidents and the AAMC focusing jointly on driving health equity by transforming their institutions’ efforts to shape the health workforce.

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Academic, coalition, coalition building, Community, Website, Workforce Diversity, Quality Improvement, Multicultural/Mixed Populations

Call to Action for Healthcare Professionals to Advance Health Equity for the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community

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Care should be caring. Patients should feel confident when entering the healthcare system — be
it a hospital, clinic or other setting — that they will be treated with dignity and respect, with full access
to the care they need. Despite our best intentions, however, this doesn’t always happen.

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abuse, bisexual, Clinical Interactions, gay, LBGT, transgendered, Report, Quality Improvement, LGBTQ

Healthcare Communities

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HealthcareCommunities.org (HC) is a web-based knowledge management system that provides multiple means for the healthcare quality improvement community to share knowledge and contribute to each others’ QI work. It features links to other resources and administers private groups that have common clinical and operational interests. 

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clinical care, hospital, peer group, Website, Quality Improvement, Community Engagement

Frequently Requested Statistics on Immigrants and Immigration in the US

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This Spotlight brings together resources from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI); the US Census Bureau's 2010 American Community Survey, 2010 Current Population Survey, and 2000 decennial census; the US Departments of Homeland Security and State; the Pew Hispanic Center; and Mexico's National Population Council (CONAPO) and National Institute of Statistics and Geograp

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foreign born, statistics, Patient Demographic Data, Report, Study Findings, Multicultural/Mixed Populations, Immigrants, Refugees

ScheduleInterpreter.com, Inc.

Organizational Profile

ScheduleInterpreter.com, Inc. provides hospitals and healthcare systems with access to ScheduleInterpreter℠ Medical Edition.

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African American or Black, Children/Youth, Clinical Interactions, Interpreter Practices and Training, Methods and Management, National, US - National, Vendor, American Indian or Alaska Native, Disabled/Special Needs, Language Services, Asian American, Elderly, Translation, Hispanic/Latino, Indigenous/Tribal, Quality Improvement, Faith-Based, Multicultural/Mixed Populations, Patient Safety, Standards, Care Management, Homeless, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Organizational Assessments and Measurement, Immigrants, Organizational Plans Policies and Management Strategies, White, LGBTQ, Low Income, Refugees

Universal Consensus

Organizational Profile

Universal Consensus is a multinational strategy consulting and cross cultural solutions training firm.

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African American or Black, Consulting Practice, Health Professions School Programs, Leadership Development, National, US - National, American Indian or Alaska Native, Continuing Education, State, Asian American, Curricula Development, Local, Workforce Diversity, Assessment, Hispanic/Latino, Quality Improvement, US - Southwest, Multicultural/Mixed Populations, Standards, US - California, Care Management, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Organizational Assessments and Measurement, White, Cultural Competence 101

Promesas y Traiciones

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A new Spanish-language radio drama from Media for Health will address health issues while telling a story. These episodes of real-life drama will portray characters struggling with diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, smoking and more. Health experts will join the hosts during each broadcast to talk about the health issues in the episodes and to answer listener questions.

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Organizational Cultural Competence, Race/Ethnicity:, Video/DVD, Program & Project, Hispanic/Latino, Private Sector, Community Engagement, Tool

Healthy Families Brooklyn

Organizational Profile

Healthy Families educates people about health and wellness and provides funding and training to improve links to health care services.

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African American or Black, Children/Youth, Community Based Organization, Race/Ethnicity:, Elderly, Community Education, Community Engagement, Faith-Based, Multicultural/Mixed Populations, Advocacy, US - Northeast, Low Income, Other Population Groups:

2009 American Community Survey and Census Data on the Foreign Born by State

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The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey that provides data every year -- giving communities the current information they need to plan investments and services. Information from the survey generates data that help determine how more than $400 billion in federal and state funds are distributed each year.

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demographic data, foreign born, immigrants, language identification, Organizational Cultural Competence, Patient Demographic Data, Website, Language Needs Assessment, Immigrants, Tool, Other Population Groups:, Language Access
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