Atlas experts work with providers, programs, and systems to address health disparities and improve health opportunities and outcomes to create greater health equity. We accomplish this by, for example, building the capacity of providers and programs to provide culturally appropriate care and implementing cross-system strategic and communications plans to address health disparities.

We define cultural competence broadly and address it in creative ways, with appropriate sensitivity and consideration for business imperatives, to ensure change is embraced and sustained.  Atlas developed a Cultural Competence Grand Rounds Series for the Washington DC VA Medical Center and worked with the Sioux Falls VA Medical Center to assess cultural competence among staff and make organizational recommendations for improvement.

We are recognized thought leaders within the Department of Health and Human Services, and are called upon for our ability to build consensus and help organizations achieve their health equity goals.  For example, Atlas assists the Office of Minority Health with the implementation of the National Stakeholder Strategy to Create Health Equity.  We also support the National Institutes of Health’s efforts to mobilize community health workers to reduce health disparities among underserved communities.