SAN DIEGO – Scripps Health and UC San Diego Health System have earned “Leader in LGBT Healthcare Equality” status in the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s LGBT Healthcare Equality Index 2012.

The annual index promotes equitable and inclusive care for LGBT patients and their families.

A total of 71 survey respondents — 14 networks (representing 177 facilities), 43 individual hospitals and 14 individual clinics/outpatient facilities — responded “yes” to all of the Core Four HEI criteria, earning Leader status for 2012.