Healthcare Professionals

The HRC Foundation works with health care facilities that are committed to providing inclusive care to their LGBTQ+ patients. Going beyond inclusive non-discrimination policies, these facilities are adopting best practices in the areas of LGBTQ+ patient care and support, employee policies and benefits, and LGBTQ+ patient and community engagement.

Healthcare Professionals

LGBTQ+-Inclusive Intake Forms

One of the first steps to providing culturally competent care is amending all patient-history and intake forms to assure that they are LGBTQ+-inclusive. For example, choices for relationship status should…

Healthcare Professionals

LGBTQ+ Inclusive Definitions of Family

Healthcare organizations can ensure equal treatment of LGBTQ+ patients and their families by adopting an explicitly inclusive definition of “family.” The following definition of “family,” which is being used by…