Parallon Recognized by Forbes as One of America’s Best Employers for Women 2020
August 07 2020 - 9:18AM
Business Wire
Parallon, a leading provider of revenue cycle management
services, announced today that it has again been named one of
America’s Best Employers for Women 2020 in a collaboration
between Forbes and market research firm Statista. Women make up 88
percent of Parallon’s workforce and 74 percent of its collective
management team.
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The Forbes and Statista annual ranking surveyed 75,000
Americans, including 45,000 women, working for businesses that
employ more than 1,000 workers, about their employer’s culture,
opportunities for career development, image, working conditions,
salary and wages and diversity.
“Parallon is committed to ensuring equal access to opportunities
and providing a diverse and inclusive workplace for our
colleagues,” said Eric Ward, president and chief executive officer
of Parallon. “We are proud that women make up such a large
percentage of our Parallon family, and we are honored to be
recognized nationally as a great employer for these talented
individuals.”
Parallon is an affiliate of HCA Healthcare, one of the nation’s
leading healthcare providers, which recently accelerated its
existing diversity and inclusion efforts and introduced new
opportunities to drive meaningful change across the organization.
Specific initiatives include:
- Expanding the role of its Chief Diversity Officer, Sherri Neal,
who now leads a 16-person team responsible for advancing diversity,
inclusion, equity and cultural competence initiatives across HCA
Healthcare.
- Establishing an Executive Diversity and Inclusion Council,
whose ten members meet quarterly to inform critical strategic
decision making, monitor progress against goals and objectives, and
serve as visible and vocal sponsors of diversity and inclusion
efforts across the organization.
- Hosting special listening sessions and enterprise-wide town
halls to provide further opportunities for colleagues to share
their voice.
- Launching a Colleague Networks program, including a Women’s
Network, to provide opportunities for HCA Healthcare colleagues to
convene around shared commonalities or experiences.
- Implementing a Conscious Inclusion training experience to equip
leaders to recognize and mitigate different types of unconscious
biases and prepare them with practical day-to-day skills and
resources to engage and support colleagues. Additionally, all
colleagues will receive conscious inclusion training as part of the
required annual code of conduct training beginning in 2021.
- Increasing visibility of the BRAVE (Bold, Relevant, Authentic,
Valuable and Educational) Conversations program, which provides
colleagues an opportunity to discuss complex topics and share
fears, hopes and challenges, through a safe, immersive and
transforming dialogue experience.
- Establishing a match program to enhance donations made by HCA
Healthcare colleagues to organizations supporting racial justice
and addressing health equity for communities of color. The HCA
Healthcare Foundation matched 100% of colleagues’ gifts through
July 31, for a total impact of nearly $200,000 so far this
year.
“Our organization is built on a foundation of inclusion,
compassion and respect for our patients and for each other, and we
are dedicated to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace for
our colleagues and ensuring equitable access to high quality care
for our patients,” said Sam Hazen, chief executive officer of HCA
Healthcare. “Our commitment is not passive—it is active. We are
working every day to foster an engaged and inclusive culture for
our patients, for our colleagues and for our communities.”
Additionally, HCA Healthcare recognizes the importance of
education in developing a pipeline of diverse up-and-comers for
potential leadership positions across the healthcare industry. HCA
Healthcare offers internships to targeted diverse groups and
provides scholarships to support the next generation in achieving
their educational goals.
About Parallon
Parallon is a leading provider of revenue cycle management
services. Parallon enables providers to care for and improve the
health of their communities by optimizing financial performance,
navigating regulatory challenges and leveraging technology.
Parallon has more than 18,100 colleagues, serves over 4,300
hospitals and physician practices, and is headquartered in
Nashville, TN.
About HCA Healthcare
Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation's leading
providers of healthcare services, comprising 186 hospitals and
approximately 2,000 sites of care, including surgery centers,
freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics, in 21
states and the United Kingdom. With its founding in 1968, HCA
Healthcare created a new model for hospital care in the United
States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals, deliver
patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine. HCA
Healthcare has conducted a number of clinical studies, including
one that demonstrated that full-term delivery is healthier than
early elective delivery of babies and another that identified a
clinical protocol that can reduce bloodstream infections in ICU
patients by 44 percent. HCA Healthcare is a learning health system
that uses its more than 35 million annual patient encounters to
advance science, improve patient care and save lives. Please click
here to connect with HCA Healthcare on social media.
All references to “Company,” “HCA” and “HCA
Healthcare” as used throughout this document refer to HCA
Healthcare, Inc. and its affiliates.
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