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A Good Mission Is Not Enough for DEI at Iora Health

COMPANY: Iora Health

STAGE: Awareness

BEST PRACTICES: Setting a vision, DEI audit, alignment with business impact

KEY QUOTE: “We made a choice that we are going to serve diverse patient populations. I love that because of the diversity, our employees and patients get to learn from each other. It makes us better.”—Rushika Fernandopulle, MD, cofounder and CEO, Iora Health

Iora Health was founded in 2010 with the intent to be disruptive. The founders wanted to transform the broken health-care system by building a different kind of primary care. Instead of a system that capitalized on sick patients, Iora Health invested in technology and put patients at its core, using a value-based approach ...

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