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Culture Care Connection

Culture Care Connection Web site

Online learning and resource center

Stratis Health recently released Culture Care Connection, a Web site designed to help Minnesota health care providers, staff, administrators, and county agencies offer culturally and linguistically appropriate care to the state’s growing multicultural populations in order to reduce health care disparities and achieve improved health care outcomes.

Culture Care Connection provides actionable tools to assist organizations in achieving their goals in relation to cultural competence.

Site highlights

County profiles of each Minnesota county with key demographic, socioeconomic, and health status data so health care practitioners can learn more about the characteristics of the communities they serve.

CLAS assessment to evaluate how well health care organizations meet national cultural and linguistic standards.

Culture fact sheets to help health care providers learn more about the background, religious and cultural beliefs, and common health issues of the predominant minority populations in Minnesota, including African American, American Indian, Hispanic/Latino, Iraqi, Hmong, Russian, Somali, and Vietnamese.

The site was created by Stratis Health and funded by a UCare grant.