Leaders in LGBT Healthcare Equality

The Healthcare Equality Index rates facilities on seven criteria and recognizes Leaders that achieve credit for every one of these criteria applicable to their facility.

View the list of HEI 2011 Leaders in LGBT Healthcare Equality and read their testimonials:

• clinic/outpatient facilities
• hospitals
• networks
• testimonials

Leader Qualifications

1. Protect all LGBT patients from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity with inclusive patient non-discrimination policies
    
2. Grant equal visitation access to same-sex couples and same-sex parents through explicitly LGBT- inclusive visitation policies
    
3. Provide LGBT cultural competency training to all applicable employees: administrative staff, medical assistants and technicians, allied health professionals, nursing staff and physicians.
    
4. Protect all LGBT employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity with inclusive employment non-discrimination policies

Clinic/Outpatient Facility Leaders

• AIDS Care, Rochester, NY
• Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York, NY
• Chase Brexton Health Services, Baltimore, MD
• Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Bangor, ME
• L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center, Los Angeles, CA
• Penobscot Community Health Care, Bangor, ME
• Whitman-Walker Health, Washington, DC

Hospital Leaders

• Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL
• Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA
• Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
• Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
• California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
• The George Washington University Hospital, Washington, DC
• Howard University Hospital, Washington, DC
• Oregon Health & Science University Hospital, Portland, OR
• Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital, St Louis Park, MN
• Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL
• San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center, San Francisco, CA
• St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York, NY
• UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
• University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA

Network Leaders

• Baystate Health (representing 9 facilities), Springfield, MA
• Group Health (representing 31 facilities), Seattle, WA
• Jackson Health System (representing 16 facilities), Miami, FL
• Kaiser Foundation Hospitals (representing 36 facilities), Oakland, CA
• Multnomah County Health Department (representing 9 facilities), Portland, OR
• UW Medicine (representing 2 facilities), Seattle, WA