health equity

UMass Memorial Health’s new Advanced Therapeutics Program’s multidisciplinary approach connects eligible patients with innovative cardiometabolic therapeutics and alleviates the burden for primary care doctors.

TeamBirth patients, their families and clinical care teams discuss birth plans and personal and cultural preferences. The goal is improving patients’ health and well-being through better communication.

This community-based outreach successfully encourages immigrant men to be screened for prostate cancer and provides them with advanced treatment options.

Having access to a trained, nonclinical advocate during labor and delivery — and for prenatal and postpartum support — can improve equity and outcomes.

Real-time analytics dashboards help stakeholders identify and mitigate barriers to well-visit adherence, without making judgments or assumptions about patients and families.

Team continues to identify barriers caused by structural racism and discrimination — and find better strategies for equitable implementation of social determinants of health interventions.

With a UMass Memorial Health donation for health equity efforts, the City of Worcester hired a vendor to integrate and manage public health data that could help improve health in the city.