Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center on Thursday released a diversity report that hospital officials had refused to publicly share for months.
The cancer center’s Board of Directors voted behind closed doors at a special meeting to release the 43-page document prepared, at the board’s request, by the Cozen O’Connor law firm.
The report found current and former employees didn’t believe that hospital leadership was committed to confronting discrimination and that complaints about unfair treatment would not be properly addressed, according to a copy posted Thursday afternoon to the hospital’s website.
Western New York’s premier cancer institution is looking to hire a public relations firm to promote its diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, a contract with an estimated value of $50,000 to $500,000 over a term of three to five years.
Every board member who attended the meeting voted in favor of releasing the report, which was unredacted except for hiding the names and identifying characteristics of employees who spoke to the lawyers preparing the report, board Chair Leecia Eve told The Buffalo News.
“Bigotry, bias and bullying has no place at Roswell Park. It is not the Roswell way. And it cannot, and it will not, be tolerated. Full stop,” Eve said…
Read the full article here
Leave a Reply