Background: Ensuring that hospitalized patients have a clearly documented Advance Care Plan (ACP) is important to provide them with goal-concordant care. Our institution undertook an inpatient Quality Improvement (QI) initiative to improve accessible ACP documentation. Though this work significantly improved ACP documentation rates, ACP rates for Latinx patients were significantly lower than those of the […]

Background: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses a five‐star quality rating system to measure Medicare beneficiaries’ experience with their health care system. Unplanned readmission rates serve as a marker of the effectiveness and safety of its transitional care process and carry significant weight in determining a hospital’s overall rating. Our institution, an […]

Background: The United States incarcerates more people than any other country (1) and there are gross inequities in who is incarcerated. Native Americans are more than twice as likely to be incarcerated as White Americans (2); Black Americans are incarcerated at a rates five times higher (3). People with lower incomes face higher incarceration rates, […]