RWJ Barnabas Health, Inc.
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RWJ Barnabas Health is High Risk. The company yields to political activism in shaping corporate governance, potentially alienating consumers, dividing employees, and harming shareholders. The company implements identity-based policies that replace merit, excellence, and integrity with preferential treatment and outcomes. RWJ Barnabas Health embraces corporate initiatives that redirect its central focus from business goals to partisan policies and divisive issues. This approach fails to safeguard free exercise, free speech, and free enterprise.
View Full Corporate Bias Ratings ReportHas canceled customers, suppliers, or vendors due to their political views or religious beliefs OR corporately boycotts, divests, or sanctions regions, people groups, or industries.
Charitable giving (including employee matching programs) policies or practices discriminate against charitable organizations based on views or religious beliefs.
Employment policies fail to protect against viewpoint or other discrimination and/or are ideological in nature.
Uses corporate reputation to support causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
RWJ Barnabas Health, Inc. has been awarded by the HRC as an “LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader” and has ten facilities that have been accredited by the Human Rights Campaign as “Leaders in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality” (1)(2). The company also launched the Babs Siperstein PROUD Center which offers specialized primary care services to the LGBTQ+ community (3). The company’s former CEO, Barry H. Ostrowsky, signed the CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion pledge, which includes a commitment to promote DEI through bias education training in the workplace, strategize on DEI programs/initiatives with other signatories, and engage boards of directors when developing and evaluating DEI strategies (4)(5). The company also implemented “new fields in our registration process, asking one’s preferred name, sex assigned at birth, and current gender at the point of entry” (6). Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset, an RWJBarnabas Health facility, renamed its PROUD Family Health in memory of transgender activist Barbra “Babs” Casbar Siperstein in 2019 (7). The company was a signatory of the Health Sector Pledge, committing itself to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Signatories were expected to develop and release a climate resilience plan and appoint a corporate executive to oversee its implementation (8).
Uses corporate funds to advance ideological causes, organizations, or policies hostile to freedom of expression.
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