Banner Medicare Advantage believes that understanding and addressing difference in health status, access and quality of care in communities we serve is critical to our mission of improving health outcomes for everyone.
Banner Medicare Advantage has recently formalized two committee to help advance health equity, eliminate health disparities, and achieve the highest level of health for all people.
In addition, Banner Medicare Advantage has three additional structured forums that support health equity initiatives:
All four work collaboratively to advance health equity. Banner Medicare Advantage has included each of their charters below and identify sponsor, membership, purpose, objectives, deliverable and cadence of meetings.
A vital component of the Health Equity Plan, overseen by Banner Medicare Advantage’s Health Equity Committee is the use of multiple qualitative and quantitative data sources to identify disparities in health care. Identifying and monitoring such disparities with data sources can lead to the development of programs better aligned to meet the needs and preferences of diverse members. The Health Equity Committee is building out its strategies, monitoring the success and continue socializing the health equity initiatives with its providers, vendors, community-based organizations, and other stakeholders in the community.
The Banner Medicare Advantage Enrollee Advisory Committee (EAC) includes a reasonable representative sample of the plan’s membership, the communities, and the geographic service areas. The EAC will solicit input on, among other topics, ways to improve access to covered services, coordination of services, and health equity for members, families and community stakeholders served by Banner Medicare Advantage. The EAC activities include, but not limited to, the following objectives:
The Cultural Competency Committee ensures health care services are delivered in a culturally competent manner. This includes member education, evaluating the cultural diversity of our members to assess needs and priorities, process improvement, and tracking of cultural competency training for providers, outsourced vendors, and health plan staff.
Duties of the Cultural Competency Program Committee include:
This workgroup carries out the following activities:
Banner Medicare Advantage has developed the Healthy Community Dashboard to work with the Neighborhood Advisory Councils to achieve the following objectives:
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