Anti-Racism

5 masked female medical providersThe University of Rochester Medical Center aspires to:

  • Provide safe, welcoming, and caring experiences for every person in our community at all times
  • To be a place where everyone, regardless of their identity or lived experience is lifted up to become their best and healthiest self
  • To serve as a powerful force for eliminating racism, division, and exclusion in our communities and beyond

To achieve these ends, the medical center has announced the Equity & Anti-Racism Action Plan (EARAP).  This five-year plan to achieve our vision reflects input and ideas from medical students, residents, trainees, faculty members, and staff across the Medical Center, along with key members of the Greater Rochester community. The Action Plan calls us—as individuals and collectively as an institution—to build, recruit, nurture, exemplify, and engage in the work of being anti-racist.

Golisano Children’s Hospital embraces the university’s Equity & Anti-Racism Action Plan (EARAP) plan, and will use the EARAP foundation to strengthen the pillars of our strategic plan that directly address health inequities. Existing projects include community outreach programs that primarily collaborate with communities of color, funding research that addresses health inequities, increasing opportunities for students and trainees of color, and more.

Both GCH’s and EARAP’s five-year plans reflect input and ideas from medical students, residents, trainees, faculty members, and staff across the Medical Center, along with key members of the Greater Rochester community. The Action Plan calls us—as individuals and collectively as an institution—to build, recruit, nurture, exemplify, and engage in the work of being anti-racist.