Bryan Mills, President and CEO
Community Health Network’s mission is to enhance health and well-being across all the communities we serve—and we’re committed to doing so in a way that embraces diversity, ensures equity and promotes inclusion (DEI).
For Community, I’m optimistic and energized about our opportunity to make a measurable and sustainable difference, because we’re both a major local employer and a provider of healthcare services to more than 600,000 patients a year. I truly believe that, together, we can effect change on multiple levels.
We must continue our ongoing efforts to build a DEI-centric employee experience. We must make a positive impact as a provider of healthcare services, gaining a full understanding of inequities in access and outcomes, then pursuing changes that will address those inequities. And we must fully leverage our influence as a major local corporate citizen, to lead by example in supporting more just and equitable communities.
The challenges of DEI are deep, cultural and systemic. A long road lies ahead in understanding and addressing those challenges. But if I know anything about Community Health Network, I know we are fully welcoming the journey. And we’re on our way.
Ram Yeleti, MD, EVP, Chief Physician Executive
Our mission at Community Health Network is to enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve. That is a powerful and deeply inspirational statement. Our mission calls on us to root out the causes of health inequities and improve health outcomes for all whom we serve. Our mission challenges us to reduce and wipe away inequities in health outcomes in all of our communities.
Healthcare—equal in access, affordability, quality and outcomes—is a right that should be afforded to all, and anything less is unacceptable. As a physician and one of the leaders of Community Health Network, I am proud to represent a physician enterprise that has come together to shrink gaps, remove barriers and provide exceptional care. I am up for this noble challenge and hope that each of you is as well.
Kristin Sherman, Board Chair
It is my honor to succeed Bruce King as chair of the Community Health Network board of directors.
As board chair, I am called upon to help guide the organization. But above that, I am here to serve along with every single member of the Community Health Network team. We have a responsibility to serve Community’s patients, caregivers, partners and communities.
To serve any of them means to serve all of them, to welcome their uniqueness, to achieve equity in outcomes and to promote a true sense of belonging. Those are the cornerstones of Community’s commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – a commitment that runs as deeply today as it ever has since opening its doors in an east-side Indianapolis neighborhood in 1956.
We have miles and miles to go in our DEI journey, and many lessons to learn from the past. But I’m proud that we’ve embraced the journey, and I’m grateful to play a small part in it.