Christiana Care Health System’s Christiana and Wilmington hospitals have both been designated a Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality, receiving a perfect score on the national Healthcare Equality Index (HEI) from the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation.
Since 2011 Christiana Care’s hospitals have received recognition from HEI, with the leader status designation since 2012. This year, Christiana and Wilmington hospitals were among a group of 418 healthcare facilities in the nation to earn the designation.
“Christiana Care is committed to be a national leader in diversity and inclusion,” said Janice E. Nevin, Christiana Care’s CEO. “We are honored by this designation, and it underscores our promise to our patients and families to embrace diversity and show respect to everyone by being respectful, caring partners in their health.”
In this year’s report, participants were given a numerical score based on policies and practices in four criteria:
- Foundational elements of LGBTQ patient-centered care.
- LGBTQ patient services and support.
- Employee benefits and policies and LGBTQ patient.
- Community engagement.
The HRC Foundation works to achieve equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people.
Christiana Care includes two hospitals with 1,100 beds, ranked as the 22nd leading hospital in the nation in the number of admissions. The not-for-profit teaching health system affiliated with Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University.
