Definitions
This common list of social values typically combines into the acronym "DEI"
What is Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion?
This is the right in the U.S Constitution that guarantees protection from unlawful searches and seizures.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This linguistic minority makes up around 3% of all visits to our hospital.
This was the original name given to the hospital and held for over 52 years
What is Valley General Hospital?
Another word for behavioral bias someone shows against others outside of their own social group.
What is Discrimination?
While our governor was in this state office, the adopted policy in Evergreen Health Monroe regarding immigration enforcement was mandated by them in 2020.
What is the Attorney General?
Over 22% of people in Snohomish County do not have access to this essential health service.
What is a Primary Care Provider?
In 2012, the Monroe hospital entered into an affiliation agreement with this healthcare entity
What is Evergreen Health?
Refers to the design and provision of items, services, environments, and facilities that can be reached used by everyone, regardless of their age, disability, or status.
What is Accessibility?
This law is designed to protect individuals from employment discrimination based on hair styles and colors. WA state is just one of 24 other states that have passed it.
What is The Crown Act?
This is the second leading cause of death for people ages 1-24 years old in Snohomish County
What is Suicide?
This was the year that voters in Snohomish County decided to form Snohomish County Public Hospital District #1.
What is 1960?
Coined by Kimberle Crenshaw, this phenomenon posits that overlapping social identities can and often do create unique experiences of oppression and discrimination.
What is Intersectionality?
This warrant is the only kind of warrant that federal officers can use to enter a private area without consent. It MUST be signed by a federal judge.
What is a Judicial Warrant?
Substance-use Stigma
Constructed where the hospital is now in 1893, this type of building was commonly used to treat the sick and ill before they became obsolete after the New Deal.
What is a Poor Farm/House?
The conditions in the environments where people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age that affect a wide range of health, functioning, and quality-of-life outcomes and risks.
What are Social Determinants of Health?
This WA State Act prohibits the use of state resources–including property and personnel–to enforce, cooperate with, or assist in the enforcement of laws that target Washington residents solely on the basis of race, religion, immigration, or citizenship status, or national or ethnic origin.
What is the Keep Washington Working Act?
This type of language prioritizes the individual before a diagnosis. It describes what a person "has" rather than saying what a person "is."
What is Person-First Language?
This order of religious women took care of the sick and injured in Monroe until 1893, when they notified the county they could no longer continue.
Who are the Sisters of Providence?