U.S. hospitals are increasingly working to reduce health disparities and advance health for all. To succeed, these efforts should be informed, enriched, and guided by patients with experience of the problems that hospitals seek to address. However, robust hospital engagement with such guidance remains rare. Our MENDS community/academic team is working to change that.
In the Fall of 2024 we convened new mothers from two San Francisco communities disproportionately burdened by worse maternal health outcomes. Please see the actionable and innovative recommendations they developed for local hospitals in the following links.
We plan to do this work in additional regions in the coming years. Please get in touch if you’d like to see strategy sessions like these in your community! ([email protected])
Full report: Forthcoming
Resource sheets to guide work on the highest-priority recommendations: Forthcoming here