Health Transformation Hub

Key Messages

  • This initiative is helping us work towards a safe, inclusive, and accessible health system for Nova Scotians, regardless of their identity.
  • All health system partners are working together to advance health equity in Nova Scotia using the Health Equity Framework as a guide.
  • Accountability, including performance benchmarks and indicators of success, will be a key element of demonstrating forward movement towards health equity.

Overview

This initiative includes a range of foundational and targeted work that will move Nova Scotia’s health system towards being more equitable, diverse, inclusive and accessible for everyone it serves.

Areas of Focus

At the health system level, work is underway to establish collaborative Health Equity practice and planning through a range of committees and working groups.

A Health Equity Framework has been developed to guide priority work towards health equity across the health system, which includes ongoing community engagement and a focus on accountability.

The Fair Care project, which concerns the collection of race- and language-based identifiers through the MSI renewal process, is one example of how we are working to create deeper insight and visibility of ethnocultural and racial identities within our health system.

Current Activities

Health Equity Framework

  • Released July 2023, currently being implemented by Department of Health and Wellness and all health system partners.

Fair Care Project

  • Launched in October 2022, we are actively collecting race- and language-based information from people who choose to provide it.

Health Equity Partnership

  • This executive-level committee was created in September 2022 with representation from all health system partners and will meeting quarterly to guide all equity work across the system.

Sponsors and Leads

Leads

  • John Ariyo, Executive Director, Equity and Engagement, Department of Health and Wellness

Executive Sponsors

  • Kim Barro, Senior Executive Director, Department of Health and Wellness
  • Anna Marenick, VP, People, Culture and Belonging, Nova Scotia Health
  • Steve Ashton, VP, People and Organizational Development, IWK Health

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