Building a Better Tomorrow, Together

Our team is uniquely committed to continuous improvement of our care and work environment to achieve an inclusive and equitable environment for people of all backgrounds and circumstances.

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About Us

At UCLA Health, we are committed to creating a health care environment where everyone — patients, staff, and community members — feels respected, valued, and supported. Our aim is to provide the highest-quality care while promoting inclusivity and justice in everything we do.

We strive to be a leader in creating a more just and equitable health care system, and we dedicate our resources to preserving the humanity of everyone we serve.

Our Purpose

At UCLA Health, we're passionate about creating a place where everyone feels valued, respected, and supported.  Our Office of Health Equity and Inclusive Excellence is here to ensure that our patients, staff, and community experience a care environment that is both affirming and equitable. 

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Our Vision

Our vision is to be the premier leader of inclusivity, equity and justice in health care.

Our Values

Our values include:

  • Accountability: We commit to ownership of our beliefs, practices and behaviors, recognizing we must be intentional and action-oriented to advance equity and justice.
  • Service: We commit to providing the highest quality of service that aligns with our mission to achieve optimal well-being for our staff, patients and community.
  • Partnership: We commit to modeling authentic and inclusive collaboration with our staff, patients and community.
  • Excellence: We commit to always putting forth our best efforts and ideas to create an inclusive and equitable environment for our staff, patients and community.
  • Courage: We commit to acting ethically and boldly to do what is right regardless of the circumstances.
  • Transparency: We commit to upholding an open and honest environment for deep self-reflection and continuous improvement.
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Anchor Mission

UCLA Health’s responsibility to advance health equity and justice extends beyond our walls. We commit to building strong community partnerships rooted in trust and collaboration while leveraging our assets to impact the socio-structural drivers that contribute to the well-being of our diverse communities.

The Healthcare Anchor Network is a network of more than 75 health systems throughout the United States. Anchor institutions in the network are place-based, mission-driven entities, such as a hospital, university, or government agency, that leverages its economic power alongside its human and intellectual resources to improve the long-term health and social welfare of their communities – especially the most divested and under-resourced communities. 

Alongside our University of California sister campuses, we commit to leveraging the size, scale, and collective economic power of the UC Health system to advance health equity and address the unique place-based needs of surrounding communities, while recognizing the distinctiveness of each institution.

We welcome and invite questions, concerns or ideas

We welcome your ideas on how to best co-develop our future steps to achieve an equitable and inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and circumstances.