Health Equity
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South Shore Health
Patient Experience Dept.
55 Fogg Road, Mailbox #50
South Weymouth, MA 02190
South Shore Health is committed to providing all patients equitable access to quality care regardless of race, ethnicity, preferred language, disability, interpreter needs, gender identity, or sexual orientation.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, or inclusive care for all, is an ongoing commitment involving training and education for our staff, recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce, seeking and incorporating patient and community feedback, and working to continually reduce and eliminate health disparities. In the link below you can find the Executive Summary of our 2023 Health Equity Strategic Plan.
Health Equity Strategic Plan
South Shore Hospital uses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s definition of health equity: “The state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health. Achieving this requires focused and ongoing societal efforts to address historical and contemporary injustices; overcome economic, social, and other obstacles to health and healthcare; and eliminate preventable health disparities.”
We Ask Because We Care: Our Commitment to Health Equity
To help achieve our goal of providing all patients equitable access to quality care, we ask patients about their demographic background and language preferences. This information is called race, ethnicity and language (REaL) data, and we collect it to improve the health of our community – particularly where healthcare disparities or inequities exist.
