In October 2018, fifteen Cork, Ireland-based Boston Scientific mentors from the company’s employee resource group were matched with Disability Support Service (DSS) students from University College Cork enrolled in their DSS Mentoring Program. Furthermore, employees from the Clonmel, Ireland employee resource group hosted a four-week Wellness Program designed to tackle [...]
Building off of previous supplier diversity and inclusion commitments, Novant Health and Mechanica and Farmers Bank created the Diverse Supplier Reinvestment Program. The program is committed to growing the capacity of businesses owned by women, ethnic minorities, veterans, LGBTQ individuals and people with disabilities by guaranteeing loans. The maximum [...]
Supplier Diversity has recently partnered with the Persons with Abilities BRG to provide vendor support and creativity in areas of opportunity. In 2019, at the Novant Health Leaders Retreat, closed captioning was provided by a firm that BRG leaders attended. This option for those who are hard of hearing [...]
Highmark Health's special program with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania supports Bender Consulting, a disability owned business enterprise that is part of the Highmark Health mentor protege program. The program helps in finding suitable contracts with the Commonwealth for its candidates with disabilities. In addition, Highmark Health's CEO committed to [...]
The Spaulding Rehabilitation Network is a hub for a wide variety of support groups for people with disabilities - spinal cord injury survivors, stroke survivors, brain injury survivors, burn survivors, amputee support group among others. In addition, Spaulding offers educational sessions for these communities along with non-traditional treatments including [...]
The Quest Diagnostics ADA Team provides training for all people leaders on the ADA and plans a follow up training. Both are also available in their learning management system for future use. Each time a case is opened a link to the training will be included in the communication [...]
The Recovery and Claims Services-Return to Work (RTW) Section at the Mayo Clinic developed an electronic accommodation request form for employee access. They also provide online resources and Mayo’s ergonomist and accommodation experts for onsite worksite evaluations. RTW has established relationships with external agencies i.e., State Services for the [...]
In May 2019, Centene hired an ADA accommodations SME to build and lead a centralized accommodation operation to transition its reasonable accommodation process from 130+ field HR generalists to a team of ADA experts to provide a better end-user experience for both employees and managers. This HR ADA Team [...]
Boston Scientific (BSC) trains Human Resources and Managers on the steps of the reasonable accommodation process: notify, assess, determine and review. Notify is when BSC becomes aware of employee circumstances that may require an accommodation. Assess is when BSC gathers information necessary to make a decision regarding an employee’s [...]
The centralized accommodations budget ensures that cost is not a limiting factor in identifying and implementing accommodations solutions. In addition, the Job Accommodation Network (JAN) is a source of information on assistive technology and other accommodation resources available at Aetna.