Equity & Anti-Racism Action Plan
Equity & Anti-Racism Action Plan
Our five-year plan to achieve this vision reflects input and ideas from medical students, residents, trainees, faculty members, and staff across the Medical Center, along with supportive groups and individuals from the Greater Rochester community. It calls us—as individuals and collectively as an institution—to build, recruit, nurture, exemplify, and engage in the work of being anti-racist.
Continue reading to review the five pillars of the Equity & Anti-Racism Action Plan, or visit About the Plan for more details.
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Our Five Pillars
Our Five Pillars
Build an anti-racism infrastructure
Build the infrastructure that fosters anti-racism in everyday work and patient interactions across our education, research, and clinical missions.
Recruit diverse learners, faculty, and staff
Recruit an array of people from widely diverse backgrounds; provide tools and supports that encourage people to stay at URMC and advance as far as talent takes them; expand work opportunities for the least privileged in our community.
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Nurture a respectful learning and work environment
Nurture our learning and work environment to infuse inclusion, foster respect, and celebrate diversity fulfilling the promise of our "ICARE" values—integrity, inclusion, respect, accountability, and excellence—always and for all.
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Exemplify inclusion in places and digital spaces
Exemplify inclusion through our physical spaces, digital communications, and learning approaches.
Learn More About Exemplifying Inclusion in Places and Digital Spaces
Engage in equitable health care
Engage in equity as a health system by making care more accessible and reducing disparities through research, active listening, and collaboration with community partners.