About Us

Diversity

With one million potential patients in the Richmond area alone as well as daily advances in medicine, diversity is a major factor in our continued success as a world-class specialty care and research institution.

We believe diversity is not limited to just the ethnicity or race of our employees and patients. It also involves diversity of ideas, thoughts, background and techniques. We believe the fabric of our culture is rich with diversity due to our collective awareness and support.

Whether it’s building international partnerships to attract international physicians and nurses VCUHS, collaboration with medical peers around the world to share best practices or outreach to Richmond’s growing minority and immigrant communities, our approach to diversity is the same. We nurture it.

In particular, we’re focused on diversity in several keys areas that align with our mission including:

  • Care - Promoting diversity means customizing the care we provide. Our employees work with patients to overcome cultural and environmental barriers. We tailor our services for the needs of elderly, youth, non-English-speaking and ethnic populations. To fulfill our mission and be successful, enhancing cultural competency is crucial.
  • Education & Research - We challenge each other through continuing professional development and enhancing research. This lifelong learning enables diversity of ideas and promotes better solutions. Our diverse work groups and teams are redesigning our processes and procedures. The results are better – and less costly – ways of getting the job done.
  • Community - Our focus on meeting a changing community’s needs requires diversity skills to broaden our services and our service areas. As the community changes, we do as well. Our strong community partnerships and our philanthropic efforts allow us to keep in tune with changing needs and changing times.
  • Performance - Through diversity, we fuel maximum performance for the good of our patients, employees and community. Diversity supports a constant standard of high quality while adapting to special patient and employee needs.
  • People - Our more than 7,500 employees each bring a unique background, knowledge base and skill set to make VCUHS a beacon of success. This diversity allows us to be a stronger and more competitive health care institution.