TOP ORGANIZATIONS
Advocate Aurora Health, a 27-hospital notfor-profit system, has dual headquarters in Downers Grove, Illinois, and Milwaukee. It has roughly 75,000 employees. Under board and executive leadership, Advocate Aurora Health has:
Maintained action plans to ensure a diverse workforce, including a nursing leadership pipeline and a mentorship program for nurses of color; a veteran recruitment strategy; an LGBTQ recruitment and inclusivity plan; a program that explores unconscious bias in medical residency selection; and other initiatives.
Tied executive leaders’ compensation to their success in meeting diversity, equity and inclusion objectives.
Facilitated inclusive hiring sessions for almost 1,200 leaders to help them understand the business and moral case for diversity; recognize and address unconscious bias; and implement practical strategies for reviewing resumes, interviewing and creating an inclusive candidate experience.
Christus Health, headquartered in Irving, Texas, is a 59-hospital Catholic not-forprofit health system serving four states. It has more than 45,000 employees. Under board and executive leadership, Christus Health has:
Established both Executive Minority Fellowship and Mentoring and Leadership development programs for associates. Leadership also sets annual goals around hiring and promotion metrics to promote diversity in the workforce.
Launched a remote patient monitoring program in response to the COVID-19 pandemic that has led to uninsured and minority populations receiving additional support services.
To help staff and caregivers more effectively communicate with limitedEnglish proficient or deaf or hard of hearing patients, and ensure patients can fully understand their care and participate in their treatment plans, Christus standardized and enhanced the health system’s Language Access Services program.
Chicago-based CommonSpirit Health, the nation’s largest Catholic health system, operates 142 hospitals and nearly 2,200 other care sites across 21 states. Under board and executive leadership, CommonSpirit Health has:
Established an Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging as a mission-critical part of the office of the CEO, amplifying the health system’s foundational values of excellence, inclusion, compassion, integrity and collaboration.
Entered into the More in Common Alliance, a 10-year, $100 million partnership that will increase development of physicians of color by ensuring a minimum of 300 additional underrepresented providers complete their residency training.
In 2021, in partnership with Dignity Health Global Education, launched the CommonSpirit Equity Impact Scholarship, a $3 million program to create opportunities that support more diverse leadership in healthcare.