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WHAT IS THE Healing ARC?

Healing ARC — acknowledgment, redress, and closure — is a pragmatic model for addressing documented institutional racial inequities in health care delivery and treatment of patients. With fresh evidence from the disparities in COVID-19 infections and deaths, racism has been widely recognized as an ongoing public health crisis. Racial inequities in health, many of which are institutionally derived, have proven resistant to attempts at their rectification. Our campaign in Massachusetts raises awareness of the Healing ARC framework, which is inspiring race-conscious collaborations that help rectify patient care inequities in hospitals and care facilities Under this framework, Healing ARC applications counter the notion that race-blind solutions alone can effectively fix systems and structures broken by racism in hospitals and care facilities in communities across the country.