Engage PFAs as Partners in Health Equity
Engaging a representative group of PFAs helps hospitals understand and respond to the needs and perspectives of all patients and families. Partnering with PFAs on issues related to health equity helps strengthen hospital services, care, and outcomes.
Actions that hospitals can take to engage PFAs as partners in health equity include developing connections between the PFAC program and hospital-level health equity work, sharing information with PFAs about the hospital’s health equity work and priorities, working with PFAs to identify specific opportunities to partner in improving health equity, and creating mechanisms for partnership that address the needs of underrepresented populations.