Company: EHC
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000785161-25-000009
Chunk: 99

Company: Encompass Health Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 99
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 and has always been to provide equal opportunity for all individuals without regard to an individual’s sex, race, age or any other protected status. We will continue to make non-discriminatory employment decisions while continuing to foster an inclusive, respectful, safe, and productive work environment for all of our employees.

Our DE&I program is overseen by staff at our corporate office and supported by hospital committees. Together, they design and execute initiatives that strengthen relationships, improve communication, and increase understanding, so we can better serve each other, our patients, and our communities. We believe our DE&I program furthers our efforts to provide culturally competent care. The key components of our DE&I program are:

•Workforce Attraction and Development. We recruit from all of the communities we serve, which allows us to provide culturally competent care. In addition, we are committed to ensuring that all our employees are trained on lawful and nondiscriminatory DE&I topics as a foundational element of our employee and leadership development curriculum. In 2024, we launched a training series to equip our hospital people managers with the tools to handle real-life DE&I situations in the workplace. Our other DE&I initiatives include scholastic partnerships with colleges and universities, including historically black colleges, recruitment tools to help identify and attract diverse talent, a website career tool to help veterans find jobs that closely align with their specific skills, and ongoing policy and procedure reviews to incorporate guidance and practices that align with our mission of inclusion and promote compliance with applicable law. Our Developing Future CEOs, or DFCEO, program provides training and mentorship for emerging leaders. Since its inception, 47 individuals have completed the program and been placed as hospital CEOs. 

•Community Partnership. We establish and maintain relationships with local organizations to promote our profile in our communities. An example of this type of partnership is our arrangement with Holy Family Cristo Rey Catholic High School in Birmingham. This partnership allows adolescents from disadvantaged groups to gain tangible work experience in our corporate office while earning funds for school tuition. In 2024, we sponsored seven students. Our other community initiatives include an annual report that provides information on our DE&I initiatives to people outside the Company. We also have memberships and active involvement in local chapters of the National Association of Health Service Executives, an organization that promotes the advancement and development of minority healthcare leaders. We provide training and mentorship to the next generation of healthcare leaders with the goal of helping them develop the skills and passion for inpatient rehabilitation. Many of our