19/6/12
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LGBT Community Still Has Hurdles In Health Care Equality
This year the Healthcare Equality Index, a report produced by the Human Rights Campaign that shows which hospitals and health care facilities score best on measures relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients, visitors and employees, is flashing some big numbers:
- A 40 percent increase in the number of health care facilities volunteering to participate in the 24-question survey that makes up the Healthcare Equality Index.
- A 162 percent increase in the number of health care facilities dubbed ‘leaders’ in LGBT heath care equality. Leaders, according to the report, are hospitals and facilities that meet practices and policies they consider to be “essential for equitable and inclusive LGBT care.” That means hospitals and facilities don’t discriminate against LGBT members as patients, visitors or employees.
That’s the good news.
The bad news is that only 407 health care facilities in the U.S. participated in the Healthcare Equality Index, a voluntary survey that’s been around since 2007. It’s a big gain in respondents over previous years, but considering that there are more than 5,700 hospitals in the U.S., there’s still a ways to go. And there are 18 states in the U.S. with no providers that have participated in the HEI.
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Don’t discriminate? No, it means they have policies in place intended to fight discrimination. Policies are not always...
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