This section is designed to familiarize an organization with best practices, from The Joint Commission and other sources, for providing patients the opportunity to be identified as LGBTQ in health records, if they so wish. Adding LGBTQ self-identification options to an electronic health record system is a significant step a facility can take to help end LGBTQ health disparities with LGBTQ self-identification options in a facility's electronic health records.
This subsection of the Patient Services and Support Criteria includes 10 of the 26 scored best practices.
Scored best practices include:
Collecting information about sexual orientation and gender identity through the following:
Providing LGBTQ family inclusive health records with: