{"id":5608,"date":"2021-08-19T10:17:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/anesthesiology\/?page_id=5608"},"modified":"2024-09-27T11:27:30","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T15:27:30","slug":"diversity-and-inclusion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/anesthesiology\/diversity-and-inclusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Diversity and Inclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology is committed to creating and maintaining a diverse and inclusive cadre of residents and faculty. We strive to build an environment that allows everyone the opportunity to realize their unique potential. We are aligned with Boston Medical Center\u2019s mission, and we strive to more fully reflect the communities we serve.<br \/>\nWe are committed to recruiting, training, and advancing physicians from underrepresented in medicine (URiM) populations. Currently, 16% of our residents and 36% of candidates matched in March 2021 self-identify as URiM. <\/p>\n<h4>Resources<\/h4>\n<p>We collaborate with the Boston University School of Medicine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/about\/diversity\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Diversity and Inclusion Office<\/a> and support Boston University\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/about\/diversity\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a> on diversity.<\/p>\n<h4>BMC Mission<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmc.org\/mission\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The mission<\/a> of Boston Medical Center (BMC) is to provide accessible care for everyone, including not only traditional medical care, but also programs and services which wrap around care to enhance overall health. Throughout BMC, people and programs serve and support our patients in myriad ways that extend beyond high-quality medical and surgical care. These include a large rooftop farm that grows food for the hospital\u2019s Preventive Food Pantry, the Violence Intervention Advocacy Program, the Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights, and Boston Healthcare for the Homeless, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmc.org\/mission\/social-determinants-health\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"kaltura_player\" src=\"https:\/\/cdnapisec.kaltura.com\/p\/2159741\/embedPlaykitJs\/uiconf_id\/54272102?iframeembed=true&#038;entry_id=1_0ika6i3d\" width=\"750\" height=\"470\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozAllowFullScreen allow=\"autoplay *; fullscreen *; encrypted-media *\" sandbox=\"allow-downloads allow-forms allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-top-navigation allow-pointer-lock allow-popups allow-modals allow-orientation-lock allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Diversity &#038; Inclusion\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; display: block; max-width: 960px;\">\n<div style=\"padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/players.brightcove.net\/6111983585001\/5Fom4Y0Z_default\/index.html?videoId=6205823678001\" allowfullscreen=\"\" allow=\"encrypted-media\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; right: 0px; bottom: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Racial Inclusivity<\/h4>\n<p>According to the 2024-25 Lown Institute Hospitals Index for Social Responsibility the 50 most racially inclusive hospitals in the United States can be found here: <a href=\"https:\/\/lownhospitalsindex.org\/2022-winning-hospitals-racial-inclusivity\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/lownhospitalsindex.org\/2022-winning-hospitals-racial-inclusivity\/<\/a><br \/>\nBoston Medical Center is proud to be ranked #2 on this list.  Here is the top 10.<\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<th>Rank<\/th>\n<th>Name<\/th>\n<th>City<\/th>\n<th>State<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1.<\/td>\n<td>Metro Nashville General Hospital<\/td>\n<td>Nashville<\/td>\n<td>TN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>2.<\/td>\n<td><strong>Boston Medical Center<\/td>\n<td><strong>Boston<\/td>\n<td><strong>MA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>3.<\/td>\n<td>UChicago Medicine<\/td>\n<td>Chicago<\/td>\n<td>IL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4.<\/td>\n<td>Penn Presbyterian Medical Center<\/td>\n<td>Philadelphia<\/td>\n<td>PA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>5.<\/td>\n<td>Methodist Hospitals &#8211; Northlake Campus<\/td>\n<td>Gary<\/td>\n<td>IN<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>6.<\/td>\n<td>NYC Health + Hospitals Metropolitan<\/td>\n<td>New York<\/td>\n<td>NY<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>7.<\/td>\n<td>John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County<\/td>\n<td>Chicago<\/td>\n<td>IL<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>8.<\/td>\n<td>Emory University Hospital Midtown<\/td>\n<td>Atlanta<\/td>\n<td>GA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>9.<\/td>\n<td>University Health Truman Medical Center<\/td>\n<td>Kansas City<\/td>\n<td>MO<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>10.<\/td>\n<td>Capital Health Regional Medical Center<\/td>\n<td>Trenton<\/td>\n<td>NJ<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Medical Center Department of Anesthesiology is committed to creating and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18461,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5608"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5608\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/anesthesiology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}