Equitable Practices

Establishing an equitable workplace and delivering equitable healthcare requires a commitment to fair treatment, career advancement, and equal access to health care regardless of age, disability, nationality, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, and/or gender expression.

Sexual orientation and gender identity initiative

In our continuous effort to provide inclusive care to all persons we serve, Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic recognizes all gender identities and expressions. In alignment with Trinity Health’s Core Values, everyone should be treated with reverence and compassion by our providers and colleagues, not solely for comfortability, but also to enhance their quality of care and their health status overall. Just as hospitals are obligated to respect all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, age, religion, creed, sex, disability and sexual orientation, so too must they respect a patient’s gender identity and gender expression. The need for an understanding of transgender patients applies to understanding transgender colleagues as well.

“Important information about transgender health care at Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic”

At Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, our goal is to deliver compassionate, high-quality, and affordable health services to all, including transgender patients and their families, offering a wide range of transgender health care at our inpatient and outpatient facilities. Guided by robust policies, Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity and expression and calls on all colleagues to provide unbiased, respectful, and sensitive care to transgender, non-binary, and gender-expansive patients and their families. We are connected with an extended network of care which includes hormone therapy, mastectomy, breast augmentation, orchiectomy and hysterectomy.*

When a service is not available at our facility, our providers will offer further information to the patient, as appropriate. For example, providers are made aware that generally some sterilizing procedures—including some surgeries—are not performed at our facility. In these instances, providers may transition that portion of a patient’s care to other providers within a reasonable distance, such as Philadelphia Fight Community Health Centers.

We welcome inquiries from patients, families, companions, and providers about the wide range of transgender health care available at our facilities. We are deeply committed to providing high-quality, supportive, welcoming care, regardless of gender identity or expression.

*Our facilities follow the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services in service to patients and with respect to procedures offered to patients, and our clinicians are always ready to discuss your needs.