Commitment to Diversity
Healthcare Partner Associates, LLC, (HPA Healthcare) values the strength diversity brings into all work environments. At HPA Healthcare, we are committed to doing our part to help ensure that every person has access to the opportunity to live a healthy life. As such, we are intentional in building a pipeline of diverse caregivers to better serve the patient population of our clients. Patients tend to be more comfortable with caregivers that they deem to be a part of their community, however, they define it. Hence, HPA Healthcare will do our part to assist in stemming the problematic tide that gender and racial bias and/or discrimination levies on patients across all levels of our country’s health care system.
Over 50% of women (versus about 30% of men) believe gender discrimination in patient care is a serious problem. Twenty percent of women reported feeling ignored or dismissed by a healthcare provider while 17% feel they’ve been treated differently because of their gender. (And that doesn’t even begin to touch on the disparities between the treatment of cisgender and transgender patients.)
DR. ALIABADI EDUCATION TEAM
Groups of people who are racialized as inferior, henceforth referred to as racialized minorities, are devalued, disempowered, and subjected to differential treatment in various institutions, including healthcare, resulting in negative material consequences affecting people’s living conditions, everyday lives, including access to healthcare and health outcomes (BMC Public Health)” To help us attract a diverse cadre of caregivers, we will build our DEI and belonging efforts around the following pillars:
- Provide 2 scholarships per year to support the continuing education efforts of minority nurses that have been recognized by their peers or patients for providing exceptional levels of patient care.
- Partner with specific community nurse groups such as Black Nurses Rock to help familiarize them with our mission and engage them in partnership.
- Participate in at least one underrepresented group recruiting event or conference per year.
- Request feedback and ideas from minority nurses on how best we can connect with nurses that they consider a part of their specific community.
- Partner with nursing schools to introduce minority nurses to the possibilities of travel nursing being a key component of their career growth and development plan.
Success in our efforts will be determined by meeting an equitable race and gender makeup level in our recruitment and representation metrics
Recruiting
- Our pool of candidates will have the desired demographical makeup per specialty and as an overall candidate pool.
Representation
- The demographic makeup of candidates submitted for opportunities will have the appropriate demographic balance.
