Our Commitment to Health Equity
MVC is committed to integrating health equity across all aspects of its work, striving to ensure that every individual has opportunities to achieve optimal health outcomes. MVC's Emphasizing Health Equity Strategic Initiative is structured around five key strategies, which collectively will highlight opportunities for improvement, expand collective knowledge, and foster collaboration throughout the state of Michigan.
MVC recognizes that striving for more equitable health outcomes requires collaboration within the CQI portfolio as well as across healthcare and social needs organizations throughout Michigan. By equipping members with valuable resources, insights, and opportunities for shared learning, and ensuring that MVC’s data offerings include equity-focused analyses, this initiative aims to advance a healthcare landscape where all individuals have access to sustainable, high-value care.
MVC's Strategic Initiative: Emphasizing Health Equity
MVC's Emphasizing Health Equity Strategic Initiative is structured around five key strategies, which collectively will highlight opportunities for improvement, expand collective knowledge, and foster collaboration throughout the state of Michigan.
Developing and Disseminating Actionable Data Resources
Increasing Member Resources and Collaboration Opportunities
Inclusion in the MVC Component of the BCBSM P4P Program
Ensuring Alignment with Other CQI Activity
Supporting Growth of MVC Team Awareness and Knowledge
MVC Statewide Health Equity Report
Health Equity Opportunities in Michigan: A state-of-the-state health equity report on hospital-level priorities, barriers, and opportunities in Michigan
Highlights from the Collaborative
Improving Access to Care
92% of hospitals have taken steps to improve the availability of their providers via programs such as mobile health units, telemedicine, flexible center hours, and other similar processes
Supporting Patients with Limited English Proficiency
88% of hospitals have taken steps to support patients who speak English as a second language or need additional support by offering translated materials and on-site translation services
Reducing Transportation Barriers
67% of hospitals have taken steps to support patients with transportation barriers via non-emergency medical transportation programs, rideshare help, virtual care, and more
Improving Access for Uninsured Patients
60% of hospitals have taken steps to improve the utilization of healthcare services among patients with limited or no medical insurance
Addressing Financial Barriers to Healthcare Access
79% of hospitals have taken steps to reduce the impact that limited income, medical debt, and other financial barriers have on healthcare access
Health Equity Stories
MVC is excited to share quarterly blogs highlighting the efforts of its members to advance health equity in their local communities, as well as other MVC updates or news that relate to health equity and anti-racism in healthcare. Through these stories, MVC aims to foster collaboration among members, celebrate successes, and inspire continued progress throughout the state.
MSHIELD Aligning Health Equity
Efforts Across the CQI Portfolio
MVC is proud to partner with MSHIELD to improve health equity efforts at the Coordinating Center. Click below to learn more about the MSHIELD team as well as resources focused on data use and quality improvement, partnership building, and building a culture of equity.
Supplemental Resources
MVC 2024 Statewide Health Equity Report
MVC combined the results of its 2024 health equity survey with select claims-based analyses to generate a state-of-the-state of health equity work in Michigan hospitals.
MVC 2024 Health Equity Survey Results
Insights and trends from MVC's 2024 hospital health equity survey, offering a comprehensive overview of the current state of health equity initiatives across Michigan.
Health Equity: The Opportunity & The Mandate
Keynote Presentation at the Fall 2023 Collaborative-Wide Meeting by Renée Branch Canady, PhD, MPA, Michigan Public Health Institute.
