If Human Resources is not your expertise, please do not try and answer-After reading the Butcher (2017) case on the Henry Ford Health System, provide your assessment of the effectiveness of the strategy. Please answer in your own words. See below

• What could be done better?
• Where do you think it will or did exceed expectations?

cover story Henry Ford Health System's executive diversity recruitment strategy - THE CHALLENGE enry Ford Health System, a five hospital system in the Detroit area, routinely care ce of the top spots en Diversityine's Top 12 Hospitals and Health Systems, an annual ranking of health care organimations that are committed to diversity. To make the out, the 30,000 employee system is continually working to improve its talent pipeline, talent development practices applier diversity and other things essential to an inclusive culture. HPHS bragging points include: A systemwide health care equity campaign to raise awareness about health disparities, improving cross-cultural communication and into grating changes into the system Employee resource groupe for female, Hispanio Latino, Middle Blaster, Alirican-American Go Yand LGBT employees Recognition by the national Human Rights Commission for its commitment to equitable and inclusive care for LGBT patients The Healthcare Equity Scholars Program, designed to create experts in health care equity who help to eliminate health care disparities and create organizational change . More than 300 minority suppliers in its vendor database The system's wide ranging efforts reflect the long standing commitment of two former CBO - Gail Wunder and his successer, Nacy Schlichting - and current President and CEO Wright L Lassiter. These leaders not only had a philosophical commitment, but they put structures in place to ensure that these priorities would continue after their tenure," says Kimberlydawn Wisdom, MD, senior vice president of community health and equity and chief wellness and diversity officer. Wisdom was appointed in 2007 to focus on health equality, and a high-ranking diversity officer was named shortly thereafter. In 2015, the positions were combined when Wadom was promoted to senior vice president, a role that includes the duties of chief diversity officer In both 2015 and 2016, HPHS ranked No. 1 in the Diversityinc. list, and Jan Harrington Duvis, system director for employee and Saber relations, workforce diversity, and employee compliance, was understandably proud. But she knew there was more work to be done Years of work were paying off, and the system was attracting lots of diverse candidates for its executive leadership openings But, when It came to hiring decisions, Harrington Duvis was not satisfied. "When you have a really good applicant pool of qualified individuals and you don't hire minorities and those who are disabled or veterans, that's an issue," she says. "We wanted more focused attention on bring She knew that meant three things goals, metrics and leadership commitment. "If you set a goal and is just going to happen, won't" she says. "You need metrics, and you need people dedicated to the work You have to be able to make it a priority." The solution board, it's necessary that we monitor car hires the forefront ," she saya Two years ago, HFHS created an executive diver Harrington Devis says. "Without that this can sity recruitment committee that review the get pushed to the side Getting buy-in applicant pool for all occutive level positions and Because the committee must approve This approach required bound level support, approves all hiring offers before they are made every senior level hiring decision and it has but that was not difficult because the health The committee is responsible for meeting is eyes on the annual goal for the entire argent system's bound and senior leaders have been goals, established each year by the HFHS board sution - the priority of diversity is part of every working steadily a diventatives for more of trustees to ensure that the value of diversity recruitment, interviewing and hiring process for than a decade factors into hiring decisions those openings The board to the organities diversity "Because we have the goals from the "Heving that dialogue really brings this to related goals, monitores metrics to ensure that 24 SEPTEMBER 2017 / www.homes.com