Health Equity
At NYG, improving health equity includes ensuring patients can access care in their preferred language through this provider of Interpretation Services.
What is "All Languages"?
The Office of EDI leads education and awareness initiatives all year including on September 30th, this national day focused on survivors of the Residential School System.
What is National Day for Truth and Reconciliation?
An initiative of the 2SLGBTQIA+ Inclusion and Advisory Committee, these personal items were introduced to identification badges 2023 as a way to create an inclusive environment for transgender and gender nonconforming people.
What are Gender Pronouns?
This holiday begins with the first new moon of the year and includes traditions like the God of Fortune, red envelopes with lucky money, and dragon dances.
What is Lunar New Year?
This term refers to subtle, everyday behaviours or comments that may unintentionally reinforce bias, exclusion, or harm in the workplace, and is a focus of mandatory training at NYG.
What is Microaggression?
As part of Quality Improvement, NYG reduced wait times for patients with this painful condition, which disproportionately affects individuals of African and Caribbean descent.
What is Sickle Cell Disease?
This deeply embedded form of systemic prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination, was shaped by the legacy of the transatlantic slave trade and is directed at people of African descent, and results in tangible inequities across all facets of society including healthcare. NYG focuses on it to dismantle the overarching infrastructure of all racial discrimination.
What is Anti-Black Racism?
An initative of the 2SLGBTQIA+ Committee, this NYG statement is displayed across all sites in multiple languages and communicates our commitment to inclusion and belonging, reinforcing that all members of our diverse community are valued, respected, and welcome.
What is “You are welcome at NYGH”?
This holiday celebrates the miracle of a one-day supply of oil lasting eight days and is marked by nightly menorah lighting.
What is Channukah?
Unlike equality, which treats everyone the same, this concept responds to people based on their needs and circumstances.
What is Equity?
This NYG initiative collects demographic data such as race, language, and gender to better understand patient needs and address care disparities.
What is Everyone Counts: Health Equity Measurment Survey?
This provincial legislation that establishes protections against discrimination based on protected grounds, such as age, gender, and family status, underpins our EDI efforts to identify and remove systemic barriers to equity and inclusion.
What is the Ontario Human Rights Code?
Observed on November 20, this day honours individuals whose lives were lost to anti-trans violence and is recognized at NYG through actions like flying the Transgender Pride flag.
What is Transgender Day of Rememberance?
Previously the "civic holiday," this day, recognized by Canada’s House of Commons in 2021, marks the abolition of slavery across the British Empire and is observed annually on August 1.
What is Emancipation Day?
Unlike explicit bias, which expressed delibertely and openly, this type of bias operates outide of your awareness and control.
What is unconcious/implicit bias?