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Health Equity | Commitment To The Core

  • Our Commitment to Addressing Social Determinants of Health
OnePatient Global Health Initiative recognizes simultaneous societal oppression and privilege as it relates to the provision of healthcare. We are committed to the importance of our roles by acknowledging and addressing our own belief systems and how they impact patient wellness. We strive to understand how healthcare systems work, as well as our place in those systems, and commit to evaluate and improve on any societal disadvantage impacting patient health

Addressing Social Determinants of Health

OPGHI continued to recognize the important roles played by poverty, racial disparities, and social inequality as it affects the outcomes of our population’s health. We offer a wide range of mental and musculoskeletal specialty health care services informed by best practices, designed to address the structural drivers of health equality within the following core areas:

Core Area 1: Economic Stability

  • Increasing employment potential in those with physical and mental health concerns by
    improving access to and provision of mental and specialty health services in underserved
    communities.
  • Reducing the number of patients with arthritis, who are unable to work or work without limits.
  • Working to reduce work related injuries that result in missed work.

Core Area 2: Healthcare Access

  • Providing access to specialty musculoskeletal and behavioral health care in underserved
    communities.
  • Working to improve patient understanding of health concerns, compliance with, potential
    treatments and collaborative plans of care, to involved outcomes.
  • Providing access to specialty substance use care in underserved communities.
  • Established comprehensive preventative programs to address opioid screening, with
    ongoing monitoring.
  • Improved health care prevention through education and monitoring
  • Opened lines of communications where patients collaborate with providers.
  • Verifying patient understanding and compliance at every visit.

Core Area 3: Education Access and Quality

  • Providing access to high quality training programs for medical and counseling students.
  • Biopsychosocial interdisciplinary treatment model addressing full scale patient needs.
  • Training future clinicians on the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to health.
  • Educating and encouraging patient use of multidisciplinary resources in medicine.

Core Area 4: Neighborhood/Community Programs

  • Created community partnerships for areas of resource.
  • Started telehealth smoking cessation groups
  • Started telehealth group for behavioral management of weight.
  • Started telehealth support groups for grief, loss. and pain.

Core Area 5: Social and Community Context

  • Provided screenings for depression, anxiety and substance use.
  • Increased patient health literacy within the patient resource portal.
  • Providing advocacy services for all psychosocial and medical concerns.
  • Conducting preventative screening for opioid dependency.
  • Referrals for other medical concerns.

Core Area 6: Food Security

  • Provide access to behavioral health supports for weight loss and management.
  • Provide resources for meal preparation including cooking tutorials.
  • Provide workshops on understanding nutritional labels.

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