With more than 600 employees across the United States, Avita Care Solutions is committed to promoting health equities by providing comprehensive, compassionate, and inclusive healthcare and pharmacy services to underserved communities. For more than 50 years, Avita and its legacy brands have strived to ensure that members of the LGBTQ+ community—team members, patients, and covered entity partners alike—feel seen, heard, and respected.

Avita CEO Michael Yount says the organization has built the cultural tenets of compassion, acceptance, and inclusion into the very framework of its core values and business model. “At Avita, our internal rally cry is ‘Be the Care,’” he says. “That means treating all our team members and those we serve with dignity, respect, and personalized consideration, no matter how they identify or whom they choose to love.”

He emphasized that Avita’s LGBTQ+ workplace inclusion policies continuously evolve in response to team member feedback and lessons learned on the front lines of providing comprehensive care. “Our commitment to workplace equality is essential because it’s the right thing to do,” he says. “For our team members, our organization, and the future of our mission.”

HRCF President Kelley Robinson acknowledged that corporate LGBTQ+ equality programs are a win-win for employers and employees and are typically carefully built over time. “More companies than ever before are dedicating the time and resources to reinforcing workplace inclusion,” she says. “As a result, they are more competitive and more creative while attracting and retaining top talent and widening their consumer base. At its core, the work of the CEI is about understanding, commitment, and compassion—it doesn’t happen overnight.”