Our system does not allow for splitting race and ethnicity as recommended by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 1997 revisions. How can we capture and report both these components?
Hospitals may use one question format with ethnicity included in race if this meets their patient populations’ needs. However, the race question must be asked. Hospitals may list race/ethnicity combinations as follows. (Also please go to How To Ask the Questions section of the Toolkit for details.) Hispanic/Latino-White Hispanic/Latino-Black or African American • We already captured race/ethnicity using the OMB categories, but we have added other options in our registration screens. Do we have to change these to match OMB? It is fine to capture additional information or to add more granular categories. • How do we report individuals who want to identify more than one race/ethnicity? Our registration system allows us to only select one category. You can add a category for “some other race” or, if your systems allow you to capture more than one category, record both. • Does the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations currently have standards for collecting race, eth
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