The criteria to determine which organizations are diversity leaders

This post was originally published on Rock Health on December 4, 2016.
After reviewing hundreds of public nominations for the Top 50 in Digital Health: Diversity Leadership award, we are proud to announce the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Wellist as the deserving honorees of 2017. They each truly embody leadership in diversity, having continually shown their commitment to hiring, supporting, and building diverse teams to tackle the most pressing problems facing healthcare today.
We know that having a diverse team creates a positive and more inclusive culture—and benefits the bottom-line through a lower turnover rate. Disruptive Women in Health Care, a longtime Rock Health friend, provides a platform for provocative ideas in healthcare focusing on the subject of diversity. Rock Health partnered with Disruptive Women to determine the honorees and develop criteria to better measure companies’ commitments to diversity.
To truly embrace diversity means fostering a culture of inclusion, equity, and accountability. To choose honorees among the hundreds of organizations nominated for the award, it was imperative to look beyond numbers and into what organizations do to build and sustain a diverse workforce through their purpose and mission. The criteria used to evaluate diversity was based on the following efforts:
1. Recruiting a diverse workforce
2. Fostering, sustaining, and retaining a diverse talent pipeline
3. Opportunities for advancement to the C-Suite
4. Parti...

Source: Disruptive Women in Health Care - December 5, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: dw at disruptivewomen.net Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs