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Robert Wood Johnson http://www.countyhealthrankings.org/ The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has launched an online tool that ranks state counties by health status, taking into account clinical care, socio- economic and environmental factors. Place Your Order Here!

Office of Minority Health (OMH) http://minorityhealth.hhs.gov/ The OMH was created in 1986 and is one of the most significant outcomes of the 1985 Secretary’s Task Force Report on Black and Minority Health. The Office is dedicated to improving the health of racial and ethnic minority populations through the development of health policies and programs that

Kaiser FamilyFund http://facts.kff.org/ Kaiser Fast Facts provides direct access to facts, data, and slides about the nation’s health care system and programs, in an easy-to-use format. (continued)   http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Education/pdf/toolkit.pdf http://aspe.hhs.gov/datacncl/ http://facts.kff.org/   16 ■ Chapter 1 http://www.statehealthfacts.kff.org/ The Kaiser Family Foundation has launched a new Internet resource, State Health Facts Online, that offers comprehensive and

American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) http://www.aacn.nche.edu/Education/pdf/toolkit.pdf The AACN’s Toolkit for Cultural Competent Education provides extensive resources including content and teaching-learning activities. Health and Human Services (HHS) Data Council http://aspe.hhs.gov/datacncl/ The HHS Data Council coordinates all health and human services data collection and analysis activities of the Department of Health and Human Services, including

There are countless interrelated facets that include but are not limited to: 1. Language and the regulations of Title VI 2. Demography 3. Gender issues such as gender specific care and modesty 4. Faith and the roles religions play in HEALTH 5. Dietary practices 6. Income—both low and high 7. Heritage 8. Education 9. Social

  The Joint Commission defines cultural competency as: the ability of health care providers and health care organizations to under- stand and respond effectively to the cultural and language needs brought by the patient to the health care encounter. (2010, p. 91) They further recognize that: cultural competence requires organizations and their personnel to: (1)

Building Cultural and Linguistic Competence ■ 13 Centered Care: A Roadmap for Hospitals. The monograph provides checklists to improve effective communication during the admission, assessment, treatment, end-of-life, and discharge and transfer stages of a given patient’s hospitalization trajectory. They strongly state that: Every patient that enters the hospital has a unique set of needs—clinical symptoms

Institutional Mandates Since 2003] Institutional Mandates Since 2003, the Joint Commission has been actively pursuing a course that en- sures that cultural and linguistic competency standards become a part of their accreditation requirements. Since this time, they have published several docu- ments relevant to this topic and in 2010 they published a monograph, Advanc- ing

steps to provide meaningful access to Limited English Proficiency To avoid discrimination based on national origin, Title VI and its imple- menting regulations require recipients of federal financial assistance to take rea- sonable steps to provide meaningful access to Limited English Proficiency (LEP) persons. Therefore, under the provisions of Title VI of the Civil Rights

Linguistic Competence Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 states, “No person in the United States shall, on ground of race, color, or national origin, be excluded from participa- tion in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance” (Dirksen Congressio- nal