2024 Tyson Equity Award Winner - Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center
91Ï㽶¶ÌÊÓƵ and Kaiser Permanente have named Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG) as the recipient of the 2024 Bernard J. Tyson National Award for Excellence in Pursuit of Healthcare Equity for their initiative: Reducing Racial Disparities for African American Patients with Heart Failure.
This prestigious award, established in honor of late Kaiser Permanente Chair and CEO Bernard J. Tyson, honors a healthcare organization for its efforts that achieved a measurable, sustained reduction in one or more healthcare disparities.
ZSFG, a resource-limited safety net hospital system, closed a disparity in readmission rate for Black/African American patients with heart failure and significantly improved care for all patients with heart failure at their hospital
Clinicians at ZSFG identified heart failure as a leading cause of hospitalization for Black/African American patients. Additionally, many heart failure patients who were readmitted also had co-occurring substance use disorders.
ZSFG implemented two primary interventions:
- To better manage care for patients with heart failure, ZSFG integrated digital tools into the clinical workflow, including an electronic health record-based decision support tool and a real-time dashboard.
- To address comorbidities, ZSFG created an addiction medicine/cardiology co-management clinic. This allowed clinicians in primary care, cardiology, social medicine, addiction medicine, and palliative care to collaborate in caring for patients at highest risk for heart failure.
Read more about this organization’s award-winning equity efforts in this news release. Additionally, we have included a summary of the ZSFG application submitted for this year’s award program below.
Congratulations to the team at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center for their impressive equity and quality improvement work as well as improved outcomes for their patients!
2024 Tyson Awardee’s Application Summary Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center - Reducing Racial Disparities for African American Patients with Heart Failure