Company: EHC
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000785161-25-000009
Chunk: 100

Company: Encompass Health Corp
Filing Date: 2025-02-28
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 100
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 hospitals have clinical rotations with local universities and regularly attend school career fairs. We also sponsored the 2024 Magic City Classic, the largest historically black college and university football game in the country, in order to promote the Encompass Health brand and career opportunities to the in-person attendees, estimated at approximately 70,000, as well as visitors to the event’s website.

We have undertaken other initiatives to emphasize the importance of inclusion in the workplace and its role in providing the best quality patient care. For example, we sponsored the Birmingham Business Journal Leadership in Diversity and Inclusion Series, a series of interactive roundtable discussions with fellow local business leaders. We regularly communicate with employees to highlight a diverse range of personal experiences to promote inclusion throughout the organization. In addition, the human resources staff works closely with the quality, clinical and case management departments to improve health equity (including through development of our social determinants of health risk assessment for use by patient case managers) and ensure our interprofessional health care teams have the resources they need to provide culturally competent care.

The success of our DE&I program is evidenced by our annual employee engagement survey results. Ultimately, the employees who experience the DE&I program and our culture on a daily basis are the best judge of whether the program is serving to strengthen the human capital, improve its sustainability, and create a culture where career development and professional advancement opportunities are equitable and accessible to everyone at every level. In 2024, our employee engagement survey included the following DE&I-related questions, and the favorable (either agree or strongly agree) response rate for both us and the healthcare industry benchmark are set out below. The engagement survey elicited opinions from a broad 

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segment of our workforce (93% of full-time employees responded), and favorable response rates for the DE&I questions were similar across gender and racial/ethnic categories.

Question/statementEncompass FavorableIndustry FavorableDiversity is embraced as a strength by the company.83.178.9My immediate manager supports diversity, equity and inclusion in the workplace.88.465.4There is an equal opportunity for people to have a successful career at the company.81.161.2My immediate manager cares about me as a person.85.375.5Our company equips staff with the resources to deliver culturally competent care to our patients.85.175.7

Employee Development and Engagement. Our employee development and engagement further our ability to attract and retain healthcare professionals in a highly competitive environment where staffing shortages are not uncommon. We track