How do healthcare’s DEI initiatives compare?

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CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion

PwC L ED BY

IN CHARGE

Tim Ryan, PwC U.S. chairman and senior partner

WHAT IT ENTAILS CEOs of large companies signing the following pledge:

We will continue to make our workplaces trusting places to have complex, and sometimes difficult, conversations about diversity and inclusion

We will implement and expand unconscious bias education

We will share best—and unsuccessful—practices

We will create and share strategic inclusion and diversity plans with our board of directors

HOW MUCH ALLOCATED N/A but one signatory, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, grew participation of diverse suppliers by 20% after the first year of signing the pledge

ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET OF LEADING ORGANIZATION N/A

NUMBER OF MEMBERS : More than 1,600 CEOs, 65 from healthcare companies, including Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Cerner Corp., and UnitedHealth Group

Medical Justice in Advocacy

LED BY American Medical Association and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine

IN CHARGE AMA’s Chief Health Equity Officer Dr. Aletha Maybank and Daniel E. Dawes, executive director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute

CEOS Dr. James Madara, AMA; Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, president, Morehouse School of Medicine

WHAT IT ENTAILS Ten physicians every year will be trained to create policy solutions and projects that address the root causes of inequity

Upstream (action-based) models of advocacy that address social, political and structural drivers of health

Structural, cultural, political and historical analysis of the production of inequities

Sector and resource engagement required to improve community health and well-being

HOW MUCH ALLOCATED Selected participants will receive a stipend of $15,000 and will be eligible for up to 28 CME credit hours

ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET AMA: $23 million in 2019 Morehouse: $162 million in 2019

N/A NUMBER OF MEMBERS

Black Women Leaders Connect

Mount Sinai Hospitals LED BY Group

IN CHARGE Pamela Abner, vice president and chief diversity operations officer, Mount Sinai

CEO Dr. Kenneth Davis, Mount Sinai

WHAT IT EN TAILS The group brings together Black women within and outside of the organization to mentor each other and drive change in the executive space by doing the following:

Increasing the recruitment and elevation of Black women to executive roles by developing recommendations that support the organization’s goals for strategic DEI

Finding organizational mentoring and community-based ventures to provide opportunities for Black women

Innovating ways to promote belonging, collaboration and networking

HOW MUCH ALLOCATED No budget yet

ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET OF LEADING ORGANIZATION $3.1 billion in operating revenue in 2019

NUMBER OF MEMBERS 30, all at the senior administrative or clinical level