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Providing Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) means offering equitable, understandable and respectful quality care and services. These services must be responsive to diverse cultural health beliefs and practices, preferred languages, health literacy and other communication needs.

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Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is abuse or aggression that occurs in a romantic relationship. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), IPV is related to serious health issues. This CDC website can help health care workers better understand IPV, and how they can help prevent it.
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Preventing Child Abuse & Neglect
Child abuse and neglect are serious public health problems. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains this website so health care workers can better understand chlild abuse and neglect. This CDC website also provides evidence-based strategies that can help health care workers prevent child abuse and neglect.
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Preventing Edler Abuse
Elder abuse occurs when an older adult experiences an act that causes them harm. Abuse, including neglect and exploitation, is experienced by about 1 in 10 people, aged 60 and older, who live at home. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) maintains a website that can help health care workers better understand elder abuse. This CDC website also offers evidence-based strategies that can help health care workers prevent elder abuse.
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Screening for Social Needs: Guiding Care Teams to Engage Patients
To treat patients’ social needs, we must first identify those needs. The American Hospital Association created this guide to help hospital-based health care providers, patients and community stakeholders determine how to screen and identify the socioeconomic challenges some people may face.
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Addressing Social Determinants of Health: The Need for Provider-Community Collaboration
This whitepaper from TMF Health Quality Institute describes key social determinants of health (SDOH) and how they affect health outcomes. The whitepaper includes examples of how provider organizations and hospitals and community-based stakeholders can work together to address SDOH.
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Improving Hospital Transfers: A Step Toward Equitable, Patient-Centered Acute Care
This article discusses ways to improve patient transfers from one facility to another. Effective transfers helps ensure that all patients have access to quality care.
Web link    Date Added: 10/20/2023    Date Last Modified: Oct 20 2023 1:39PM  
Social determinants of health and Medicare Advantage risk adjustment
This article, from Optum.com, explores how commercial Medicare Advantage insurance plans can address social determinants of health (SDOH), just as Medicare or Medicaid do. According to Optum.com, addressing SDOH requires an evolution in coding capabilities within existing documentation systems.
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Implementing CLAS to Improve Health Equity: Developing a plan to lead and support implementing the CLAS Standards
In this recorded webinar, subject-matter experts from ATW Health Solutions discuss the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care (National CLAS Standards). Among other things, participants learned how to develop a plan for implementing CLAS and get leadership support for that plan.
Video    Date Added: 05/29/2024    Date Last Modified: May 20 2024 6:27AM  
Implementing CLAS to Improve Health Equity: Assessing your communication and language assistance efforts to meet CLAS Standards
In this recorded webinar, subject-matter experts from ATW Health Solutions explore how enhanced communication efforts can help your organization meet the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care (National CLAS Standards). Among other things, participants in this second CLAS webinar discussed how to assess their organization's success in creating an effective language services program.
Video    Date Added: 05/20/2024    Date Last Modified: May 20 2024 6:28AM  
Introduction to CLAS Standards Guide
This guide, published by ATW Health Solutions, provides an overview of the National CLAS Standards.
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Crosswalk of Health Equity Requirements, CLAS Standards, and Z Codes
This crosswalk aligns three sets of standards with the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) Standards: the Joint Commission health equity standards, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid health equity measures, and existing Appendix PP long-term care regulations. Facilities can use this guide to evaluate existing efforts to achieve health equity and help determine new opportunities to advance health equity.
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CLAS, Theme 1 Intervention List
This intervention list, published by ATW Health Solutions, interventions that support Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS).
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CLAS, Theme 1 Standards Guide
This guide published by ATW Health Solutions, provides an in-depth overview of Theme 1 of the National CLAS Standards.
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CLAS, Theme 3 Standards Guide
This guide, published by ATW Health Solutions, provides an in-depth overview of Theme 3 of the National CLAS Standards.
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CLAS, Health Equity Requirements Crosswalk, Theme 1
This guide presents a comparison of Theme 1 of the National CLAS Standards with those from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, The Joint Commission and state regulations for long-term care facilities.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 05/03/2024    Date Last Modified: May 10 2024 8:09AM  
CLAS, Theme 2 Intervention List
This intervention list, published by ATW Health Solutions, provides interventions that support Theme 2 of the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS).
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CLAS, Theme 2 Standards Guide
This guide published by ATW Health Solutions, provides an in-depth overview of Theme 2 of the National CLAS Standards.
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CLAS, Theme 3 Intervention List
This intervention list published by ATW Health Solutions, provides interventions that support Theme 3 of the Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS).
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CLAS, Health Equity Requirements Crosswalk, Theme 2
This guide presents a comparison of Theme 2 of the National CLAS Standards with those from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, The Joint Commission and state regulations for long-term care facilities.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 05/03/2024    Date Last Modified: May 3 2024 1:14PM  
CLAS, Health Equity Requirements Crosswalk, Theme 3
This guide presents a comparison of Theme 3 of the National CLAS Standards with those from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, The Joint Commission and state regulations for long-term care facilities.
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 05/03/2024    Date Last Modified: May 3 2024 1:12PM  
Think Cultural Health
This website, from the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, promotes education, continuing education opportunities, and resources to learn about culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS).
Web link    Date Added: 06/06/2022    Date Last Modified: Jun 21 2024 12:34PM  
Social Determinants of Health Virtual Expedition Modules
The American Hospital Association shares these videos to help hospital-based health care providers explore ways to address the social determinants of health that directly affect their patients' wellbeing.
Web link    Date Added: 10/20/2023    Date Last Modified: Oct 20 2023 1:25PM  
Social Determinants of Health database from the American Hospital Association
The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) website, maintained by the American Hospital Association (AHA), houses reports and case studies, along with webinars and videos, on several SDOH characteristics. The AHA website also links to resources hospitals can use to better meet their community's needs while addressing health care disparities.
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Housing and the Role of Hospitals
Where and how people live directly affects their heath. People experiencing housing instability have limited access to preventive care and are more likely to have infectious diseases and chronic health conditions. This website, maintained by the American Hospital Association, shares resources to help hospital workers better understand how housing instability affects health, and what they can do to ensure that people in their communities have access to affordable, stable housing.
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Transportation and the Role of Hospitals
People who do not have reliable transportation may find it difficult to access health care, which results in missed or delayed access to preventive health care services. This website, maintained by the American Hospital Association, shares resources to help hospital workers better understand how transportation issues affect health and health care outcomes, and what they can do to reduce transportation barriers in their communities.
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Understanding Health Equity through Data Disaggregation
This report from ATW Solutions provides an overview of data disaggregation. How can disaggregated data help to better identify how health care disparities are experienced in different population groups?
Adobe PDF    Date Added: 06/28/2024    Date Last Modified: Jun 28 2024 2:04PM  
How to remove language barriers for your patients
This May 16, 2024, blog post from the Milbank Memorial Fund describes real-life scenarios where patients who did not speak English, and who needed crucial conversations with their health care providers, did not have those conversations because there were no health care providers who spoke their language. This blog post highlights the need for health care organizations to invest in professional interpretation services to ensure all patients, regardless of their preferred language, receive the care they deserve.
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Implementing CLAS to Improve Health Equity: Using patient-centered data to meet CLAS standards
In this recorded one-hour webinar, subject-matter experts from ATW Health Solutions explore how implementing the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care (National CLAS Standards) can help advance health equity. In this first of three webinars, viewers will learn why it's important to implement these standards and review the National CLAS Standards' Principal Standard and Themes, with particular attention on Theme 3.
Video    Date Added: 06/26/2023    Date Last Modified: May 20 2024 6:29AM  
States Advancing All-Payer Health Equity Approaches and Development (AHEAD) Model
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has created a new state total cost-of-care model designed to enhance multi-payer alignment. The AHEAD Model has several goals: to collaborate with states to curb health care cost growth, improve population health and reduce disparities in health outcomes.
Web link    Date Added: 09/18/2023    Date Last Modified: Feb 9 2024 6:04PM  
Disparities in SDOH Highlight Need for Social Intervention in the Heart Failure (HF) Space
A new analysis of health and nutrition, conducted by a team from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, shows that social determinants of health (SDOH) significantly influence heart failure outcomes for people of color. The study also shows that patients with incomes below the federal poverty level face more challenges to overcome within the different categories of SDOH.
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ATW's REAL Data Collection Analysis Template
ATW’s REAL Data Collection Analysis Template helps health care organizations examine the completeness of their race, ethnicity, and language (REAL) data and uncover potential areas of improvement.
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ATW's REAL Data Collection Analysis Video
This video provides instructions on how to use the ATW’s REAL Data Collection Analysis Template.
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U.S. Census Bureau Quick Facts
Here are quick, accessible resources to validate community demographic data. Use these links to validate that REAL data your organization has collected aligns with your community data.
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How a Hospital-Community Partnership Can Reduce Readmissions
To reduce readmissions, hospitals must communicate with external health care providers to identify and overcome gaps in inpatient care. Learn how a multi-disciplinary team at Wadley Regional Medical Center in Texarkana, Texas, worked with external health care providers to reduce readmissions.
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Removing Barriers and Connecting with Patients in Their Language
Good communication is essential for improving access to health care that respects every patient's linguistic and cultural needs. This success story shares the strategies health care providers and staff used to reduce language barriers at Rankin County Hospital District, in Rankin, Texas.
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Think Cultural Health Newsletter
The Think Cultural Health (TCH) newsletter raises awareness of culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) in health and health care.
Web link    Date Added: 06/17/2024    Date Last Modified: Jun 17 2024 8:12AM