RWJ Barnabas Health fired six employees in 2021 for refusing to get vaccinated for COVID-19. It also has ten facilities that have been accredited by the Human Rights Campaign as "Leaders in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality". The company does not provide its employees with protections against viewpoint discrimination. RWJ Barnabas Health has been awarded by the HRC as an "LGBTQ Healthcare Equality Leader". The company also launched the Babs Siperstein PROUD Center which offers specialized primary care services to the LGBTQ+ community. RWJ Barnabas Health'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. 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”. 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. RWJ Barnabas Health signed the Health Sector Climate Pledge, committing itself to achieve net zero emissions by 2050. Signatories are expected to develop and release a climate resilience plan and appoint a corporate executive to oversee its implementation. For these reasons, RWJ Barnabas Health, Inc. receives a High Risk rating.