DEI Report

DEI Employee training sessions

Current DEI Education Programs

Northern Light AR Gould Hospital

Northern Light AR Gould Hospital is developing training to build upon our culture of caring relative to equity, inclusion and diversity and we hope that we will be able to tap into our new DEI director’s expertise relative to ideas and resources. Northern Light Mayo and CA Dean are beginning to educate outpatient employees with diversity, equity, and inclusion training. We’ve already held one such session on-site at the end of October and have another one scheduled for November. Thousands of patients enter our clinics annually. Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center began discussion for a digital holiday calendar with holidays from around the world, and during the holidays will showcase recipes from around the globe inside the medical center café.

Northern Light Mayo Hospital, Northern Light CA Dean Hospital

Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center

Northern Light Inland Hospital, Northern Light Sebasticook Valley Hospital, Northern Light Continuing Care Lakewood

Northern Light Inland and Sebasticook Valley Hospitals as well as Lakewood Continuing Care have asked employees to participate in a local diversity council.

Leaders were asked to include culture of caring as a standard agenda item for department meetings.

Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital, Northern Light Maine Coast Hospital

Northern Light Mercy Hospital

Northern Light Mercy Hospital began the Mercy book club with a focus on social justice, developing a charter for local diversity, equity, and inclusion committee, and holding ongoing meetings with Portland Adult Education to develop a workforce development proposal. The social work team and others are becoming highly engaged in advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion. We will hold a quarterly Zoom staff meeting. A preview of our Employee Engagement results indicates that staff finds the spiritual support we provided during the height of the COVID pandemic to be very helpful. This work will continue. Discussions and departmental meetings featured a culture of inclusion and caring for one another as a focus. Listening sessions and engagement results are being shared and provide a good foundation to start conversations of inclusion. Employees are showing engagement in ways to improve our culture.

Northern Light Home Care & Hospice

We continue providing training sessions to educate our staff on important issues in our workplace culture. The most important element of these sessions is the open discussions and shared experiences among employees. People are sharing what they have experienced, what they know, and important questions in moving forward. It’s these discussions that will drive our growth as a system and as individuals. If you can participate in or even listen to the discussions, the result is worthwhile and gratifying. Here are the sessions we have held to date: • Unconscious Bias and Microaggressions

Northern Light Home Office, Beacon Health, Work Health, Work Force, Medical Transport, Pharmacy, Laboratory

Diverse schools at which Northern Light Health conducts onsite or virtual career fairs. Boston University

• Culture Competency/Humility • Bystander Intervention Training • Fostering an Inclusive Workplace • Gender Diversity • Gender Equity (with listening session) • Trans Inclusion • Power and Privilege

Morehouse College NC Central University Sacramento State San Francisco State University Southern University

Spellman College Stanford University Stony Brook University Tuskegee University Xavier University of Louisiana

Clark Atlanta University Columbia University, NY Fort Hays University Howard University

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