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Committed to the Work of Health Equity
About KC HE LAN
Systems Change
Powered By More Than 50 Organizations Strong
The Kansas City Health Equity Learning and Action Network brings together health systems, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), community-based health centers, physicians, health insurance providers, employers, public health departments and other community-based organizations to collectively engage in a shared journey to address the factors that lead to inequalities in health access, treatment, and outcomes.
The effort is a partnership between The Health Forward Foundation, the KC Health Collaborative, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in collaboration with other regional funders and thought leaders. According to IHI, the Kansas City Health Equity Learning and Action Network is the only place-based initiative they are aware of that has a broad set of multi-sector players focused on health equity-centered quality and performance improvements, and antiracism.
Health Equity
Through An Antiracist Lens
LAN members have committed to making health equity a strategic priority, to include CEO agreement to work to diversify their boards of directors with people of color. Fifteen of these organizations have committed to take equity-centered methodologies back to their respective institutions, identify practices that perpetuate health injustices, and develop coherent strategies to address them through an anti-racist lens.
One Common Agenda
Push Health Equity Forward
In the confluence of pervasive inequities highlighted by COVID-19, an economic recession and a national racial reckoning, the need to address inequity and its impact on the health of our community has never been more clear or opportune.
The LAN brings together the region’s health ecosystem to collectively address the factors that lead to inequalities in health access, treatment, and outcomes.
By leveraging the collective efforts of community leaders, this effort will catalyze and sustain equity-centered and culturally responsive health ecosystems that yield equitable health outcomes for all.
The LAN provides training, tools, and expertise to make meaningful changes to systems, policies, and structures to reduce and eliminate disparities in health care delivery and realize measurable improvements in health outcomes – particularly among people of color who are most impacted by health inequities.
More About KC LAN
Putting Equity into Action
Overcoming Historical Inequities Through Shared Accountability
In Kansas City, a diverse coalition of partners is committed to understanding, addressing and overcoming historical, social and economic inequities. As a network, we are growing LAN participants’ capacity to drive anti-racist practices in their organizations and holding shared accountability to turn our collective learning into tangible improvements in Kansas City’s health and quality of care.
Find Out Who’s Participating In the KC Health Equity Learning and Action Network
With more than 50-members spanning the health care ecosystem, learn more about Action Organizations that have mobilized to address health and racial equity.
“You can’t have quality without equity, and you can’t have equity without quality.”