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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.
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Healthcare Equality Index Resource Guide
The HEI Resource Guide is a comprehensive instructional and reference accompaniment to the Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) Survey. The HEI Resource Guide covers all of the sections of the HEI…
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Resources for Survey Submitters
To meet the HEI training requirement, organizations must promote the availability of the free HEI training opportunities offered by HRC Foundation and our partners to all of their patient care…
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…
Revisiting Your Hospital's Visitation Policy
Revisiting Your Hospital's Visitation Policy
Transgender-Affirming Hospital Policies
A unique, groundbreaking publication that provides much-needed guidance to hospitals on best practices for care of transgender patients.