Health Equity Commitment

Lawrence General Hospital (LGH) and Holy Family Hospital (HFH), recently merging together to form a single safety-net health system, define health equity as a commitment to equitable, high quality care delivered by culturally and linguistically competent providers who are bias-free and anti-racist, who work to deliver care in a welcoming, safe environment and  eliminate health disparities related to race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, income and other forms of diversity, through high engagement of patients and community partners and robust quality and outcomes disparity measurement.

For our health system, health equity is a foundational and essential component of our strategic plan.

In the next four years the system hopes to achieve the following three goals:
1.     Enhance the capacity and competence of the board and leadership to advance and support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and health equity.
2.     Implement the DEI 5-year roadmap to better serve our patients, employees, and community.
3.     Improve population health programming to address drivers of health

The health system is highly engaged and embedded deeply in the fabric of the Merrimack Valley and is routinely engaged and has deep longstanding community partnerships with local governments, social service agencies, community-based providers, and others seeking to improve health.