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Agrace welcomes the unique perspective you bring to our team, our patients and our community partners.
At Agrace we are strengthened by the diverse experiences, cultures and traditions of our staff, patients, and clients.
Together, we pursue a vision of equity—in which every Agrace staff member is treated fairly, and every patient and client experiences the respectful, individualized care they need and deserve.
We foster a culture of belonging and inclusion that celebrates people’s uniqueness and leads to meaningful, empathetic connections.
Here are some of the ways we show our commitment to these values.
Agrace wants a staff who reflect the communities we serve and a workplace culture where everyone is treated equally and can rise to their full potential.
We strive to build a culture of inclusion at Agrace, so all the talented people who join us can grow and succeed in their roles. Through our Leadership Education Advancement Program (LEAP) our managers strengthen the skills they need to grow into leaders. Along with tuition reimbursement, we offer scholarships for staff who would like to earn a nursing degree.
Our communities need more diverse health care workers as our population ages.
• We support our CNAs who are studying to become nurses. We want them to succeed and stay with us after they graduate.
• You can start working at Agrace as an Age at Home caregiver, even without other health care experience. After a year of learning on the job, Agrace will pay for your training to become a CNA.
Agrace partners with UW Health and the PEOPLE Program to offer summer internships for underrepresented teens. You can work in clinical (with patients) or non-clinical areas for a few months. It’s a chance to learn about health care careers, and it also helps Agrace build a more diverse team.
One reason Agrace has been named among the Best Places to Work by Madison Magazine four years in a row is that we invest in the well-being of our staff. We commit to paying a “living wage” to our benefit-eligible employees (those who normally work at least 28 hours a week for Agrace). With Agrace, you should earn enough to afford a basic, but decent, living for yourself and your family.
Agrace’s qualified and capable staff represents different races, ethnicities, religions, languages, cultures, abilities, sexual orientations, genders and economic levels. We aim to create a workplace that honors the diversity of our staff, patients and families. Everyone, including staff members like LGBTQ+ advocate Cass Downing, should feel like they can bring their full selves to work.
Agrace CNA Cass Downing goes above and beyond to support Agrace outside her role as a caregiver. A transgender advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, she has planned (and starred in) drag shows to raise money for Agrace's Care for All program for the past four years. She also hosts brunch drag shows at area restaurants to raise awareness for other nonprofits. Her efforts bring hundreds of people together to support worthy causes.
Cass helps others see that Agrace is a welcoming place to work, volunteer or receive care. How she does it all, no one knows!
Agrace’s Advancing Inclusion and Equity Committee steers our efforts to become a more welcoming organization. This diverse group of staff brings their unique experiences to the table as they examine and advise on diversity-related data, policies and actions. The Committee explores ways Agrace can engage with underserved and underrepresented community groups.
These leaders are our standard for inclusion and equity. In challenging us to be better, they are the essence of Agrace!
When every member of our community is treated well, we all thrive. We work to learn the cultural traditions of the communities we serve and offer funding so everyone can have access to our care.
Our staff works hard to learn about and respect your traditions about illness, dying, funerals and grieving. Through our Cultural Training Series, people have come to Agrace to teach us about the differing end-of-life beliefs and traditions of several groups we often serve in southern Wisconsin—Amish, Hmong, Ho-Chunk and Latinx people, among others.
These discussions help us appreciate not only the cultures and faiths of our patients and clients, but also the health disparities and racial and gender inequities some of them face in receiving health care. They inspire us to do better.
Everyone deserves to have Agrace’s compassionate, high-quality care, no matter who they are, where they come from or whether they can pay. Through our Care for All program, Agrace steps in to offer our patients help paying when they do not have enough insurance coverage for their care and have no other way to pay for the services they need.
Community donors have given $15 million to an endowment fund. The income generated by the endowment allows Agrace to be able to offer "Care for All" assistance to our patients of up to $750,000 every year.
If you have questions, you can call to connect with our diversity and inclusion manager.
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