ECOCH Priorities

As the result of a 2018 strategic planning process, ECOCH established three new subcommittees that will focus on the following priorities over the next three years.

Social Determinants of Health (SDOH)

Goal: Massachusetts General Hospital will recognize and address social determinants that affect the health of patients and communities.

Objectives:

• Create and disseminate a SDOH Status Report
• Foster cross-disciplinary collaboration to prioritize research that focuses on SDOH
• Develop a proposal for a new hospital-wide SDOH Initiative

Subcommittee Chairs: James Morrill, MD, PhD and Anne Thorndike, MD, MPH

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Access to Care

Goal: Mass General will provide care that is affordable, available and accessible for all patients.

Objectives:

• Ensure patients in ConnectorCare Plans are able to access Mass General services
• Ensure the development of an “Access to Care” dashboard with key indicators that reflect measures of affordability, availability and accessibility
• Improve experience of care for people of diverse backgrounds

Subcommittee Chairs: Joy Rosen, MS and Dean Xerras, MD

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Race Equity

Goal: To achieve race equity at Mass General by creating, embedding and sustaining a race equity framework.

Objectives:

• Promote ongoing commitment by the Mass General Board and senior leadership to establish and maintain race equity as an institutional priority
• Provide in-depth and continuous race-equity education and training for all hospital employees
• Develop/revise an anonymous reporting system that captures racism-related experiences and concerns leading to review and remedy
• Conduct a race equity impact assessment for all policies and decision making at Mass General

Subcommittee Chairs: Elena Olson, JD and Derri Shtasel, MD

Additional Information: In 2020, the goals identified by the ECOCH Race Equity Subcommittee were incorporated into Mass General’s new 10-Point Structural Equity Plan and the Mass General Brigham United Against Racism plan and will be operationalized by the newly formed Executive Committee on Diversity and Equity (ECODE).