Johns Hopkins to Open Center for Transgender Health

This January, Johns Hopkins will open a Center for Transgender Health. The Center aims to not only provide services specific to the care of trans people, like trans-affirming counseling and surgery, but also to help reduce the stigma and inequality that many trans patients experience in their routine healthcare.

“The transgender population faces lots of health disparities,” said Paula Neira, the director of the Center. “One of the initiatives at Johns Hopkins Medicine is to look at health disparities and try to address them and also to provide world-class, patient-centered care.”

Features in Epic—like preferred names and decision support for sex-dependent care—help organizations like Johns Hopkins provide inclusive, top-notch care to patients of all sexual and gender identities.

Learn more about the Center for Transgender Health here. Epic community members can learn more about Epic’s support for improved sexual and gender minority care here.