Livingston Diversity Council Announces Partnership with Trinity Health to Advance Diversity and Inclusion in Livingston County
HOWELL, Mich., April 20, 2021 – *updated to reflect the organization’s name change
The Livingston Diversity Council is pleased to announce a formal partnership with Trinity Health in an effort to advance diversity and inclusion in Livingston County.
“Livingston Diversity Council is excited to partner with Trinity Health,” said Nicole Matthews-Creech, Executive Director of the Livingston Diversity Council. “With the support from Trinity Health, our council will be able to elevate our work within the county to make real, sustainable change.”
The partnership between Livingston Diversity Council and Trinity Health enables an alliance with shared board members, educational opportunities and collaborative learning. It will also put the Livingston Diversity Council one step closer to being able to fund a staffed position to lead and coordinate the council.
Trinity Health formally launched its own diversity and inclusion council in 2020 in an effort to develop and implement strategies, feedback and guidance on goals, priorities, strategic opportunities and operational challenges pertaining to diversity and inclusion.
“As a mission-based organization, diversity and inclusion are very important to us,” said John O’Malley, president of Trinity Health Livingston and Brighton. “Our collaboration with Livingston Diversity Council will enable our organizations to share ideas, best practices, offer education to our colleagues and highlight the need for diversity and inclusion efforts in our local community.”
“We are very pleased that Trinity Health is doing its own work and making diversity and inclusion a priority,” said Matthews-Creech. “We recognize that this commitment to change is challenging, but when we lean on each other and do it together, like our community often does, we can make it happen.”
About Livingston Diversity Council
The Livingston Diversity Council is a grassroots organization of Livingston County business people, private citizens, educators, government officials and clergy who embrace and advocate for the virtues of diversity and inclusion. The organization is a change agent for diversity, equity, inclusion and access that collaborates, educates and empowers to build a thriving community. The group believes Livingston County will be a transformative community that embraces and empowers all people for their uniqueness and contributions. For more information about Livingston Diversity Council visit livingstondiversity.org.
About Trinity Health
Trinity Health is a health care organization serving seven counties in southeast Michigan including Livingston, Washtenaw, Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Jackson, and Lenawee. It includes 548-bed Trinity Health Ann Arbor, 497-bed Trinity Health Oakland in Pontiac, 304-bed Trinity Health Livonia, 66-bed Trinity Health Livingston in Howell, and 133-bed Trinity Health Chelsea. Combined, the five hospitals are licensed for 1,548 beds, have five outpatient health centers, six urgent care facilities, more than 25 specialty centers; employ more than 15,300 individuals and have a medical staff of nearly 2,700 physicians. Trinity Health has annual operating revenues of about $2 billion and returns about $115 million to its communities annually through charity care and community benefit programs.
Trinity Health operates in 22 states, employs about 133,000 colleagues, has annual operating revenues of $17.6 billion and assets of about $24.7 billion. Additionally, the organization returns almost $1.1 billion to its communities annually in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs.
For more information on health services offered at Trinity Health System, please visit https://www.trinity-health.org.