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As an institution, for us to function at our top,
it only comes through diversity of our workforce.
It comes through diversity of our students.
It comes from diversity of how we provide
what we do for the diverse patients
that we are responsible for.
So if we don't have a diverse and inclusive environment,
we're going to be less always than our best.
What's important now, and what's very different from where
we were five years ago, is not only do we listen,
we then take action on the things and people
tell us need to change in the organization.
We've achieved some very significant directives.
We've diversified our C-Suite so we have more leaders of color
and more women at the table in our C-Suite
than we've ever had at any point in history at MUSC Health.
The team is different.
The team is happier, more content.
And that's a great thing to see as well.
Everything that we do that not just makes people feel welcome
but that really celebrates the differences between us.
And how that adds to who we are as an institution is,
I think, critical to our future.
We're a medical university.
So when people come to the medical university
from the community, they should see the community.
We have students and visitors from all over the world.
We're truly on a global stage.
When you take care of patients, it's
best done with a more diverse team.
And that team has the best ideas,
is able to give the best care.
My best ideas have never come for me sitting in my room
by myself dreaming up things.
It comes from conversation.
It comes from different viewpoints.
It comes from different ideas.
Respect should be the first level of relationship.
When you respect the other, you see the humanity in the other
and you uphold that person and treat that person with dignity.
I do think that we have seen change the last few years.
I'm starting to see more and more opportunities
for individuals to go into a meeting
and see different cultures all represented within the room.
Even again the openness to talk about disability in terms
of diversity is different.
Speaking from the LGBTQ perspective,
we have residents and students who have come here
who have identified as LGBT.
We're taking actions to make sure that this is not just
a check in the box.
We take these values into heart.
And you've got to talk about it.
And then you've got to make sure everybody's talking about it
down through the organization.
Some people think that when you achieve a goal
or you achieve a metric around diversity and inclusion
that you've won.
Well, it's never over.
This work is never over.
But we strive continuously to make sure
that we're being best organization
that we can be in the moment at the time for our employees
and our patients and their families.
This is who we are.
We're about respect.
We're about inclusion.
There's no questions.
There's not hesitation.
It provides a solid foundation for us
to continue to move forward.
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