DENVER, April 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- DaVita Inc.
today announced its 2025 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG)
goals and released its new ESG reports, bolstering its commitment
to corporate citizenship and helping create healthy communities.
DaVita's ESG program builds upon existing efforts to transform
care, fight climate change and create a diverse community where
everyone feels they belong.
"A person's health is the result of a lifetime of experiences
and the world around them," said Javier
Rodriguez, CEO for DaVita Inc. "We're working to address the
full spectrum of factors that drive the health of our patients and
affect their quality of life. By setting ambitious ESG goals for
2025, we're deepening our commitment to helping to improve the
health and well-being of the people and communities we serve."
DaVita's ESG strategy reaffirms its aspirations to be a
community that meaningfully interweaves equity and social
responsibility into the fabric of its day-to-day operations. To set
its ESG goals, DaVita asked key stakeholders for feedback—including
front-line employees (teammates), senior leadership and its Board
of Directors—and reviewed the Sustainability Accounting Standards
Board (SASB)'s recommended metrics for health care providers. The
results led the company to establish the following five key focus
areas, with some of the 2025 goals highlighted below.
- Patient Care: Provide industry-leading care to help
patients live their best lives
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- Home Modality: Empowering patients to treat on their
modality of choice, with a goal of 25% of patients choosing to
treat at home1
- Teammate Engagement: Be recognized as an employer of
choice
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- Diversity: Meet or exceed EEO-1 benchmarks at all
levels
- Environmental Stewardship: Reduce its carbon footprint
in alignment with science-based targets
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- Climate Change: Reduce its carbon emissions by
50%
- Healthy Communities: Spread ripples of citizen
leadership throughout local communities
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- Volunteerism: Teammates spread ripples of citizen leadership
by volunteering 125,000 hours from 2020–2025
- Leading with Integrity and Accountability: Continue to
operate from a foundation of compliance and ethics
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- Compliance: All teammates complete annual compliance
training; new teammates complete compliance training within 60 days
of hire; Medical Directors and joint venture partners receive
annual compliance training
To read the full list of 23 goals and descriptions within each
key focus area, visit DaVita's ESG Reporting Hub.
DaVita's ESG report follows recommendations from SASB,
demonstrating DaVita's commitment to transparency and
accountability. The report was published alongside DaVita's 2020
Community Care report, which highlights the company's progress in
key areas over the past year, and the inaugural Diversity &
Belonging Report, which discloses diversity metrics and a roadmap
for executing on key priorities.
To learn more about DaVita's history of caring for its patients,
teammates and the communities it serves, visit
DaVita.com/CommunityCare.
About DaVita Inc.
DaVita (NYSE: DVA) is a health care provider focused on
transforming care delivery to improve quality of life for patients
globally. The company is one of the largest providers of kidney
care services in the U.S. and has been a leader in clinical quality
and innovation for more than 20 years. Through DaVita Kidney Care, the company treats patients
with chronic kidney failure and end stage kidney disease. DaVita is
committed to bold, patient-centric care models, implementing the
latest technologies and moving toward integrated care offerings for
all. Through these efforts, DaVita has also become the largest
provider of home dialysis in the country. As of December 31, 2020, DaVita served 204,200 patients
at 2,816 outpatient dialysis centers in the United States. The company also operated
321 outpatient dialysis centers in ten countries worldwide. DaVita
has reduced hospitalizations, improved mortality, and worked
collaboratively to propel the kidney care industry to adopt an
equitable and high-quality standard of care for all patients,
everywhere. To learn more, visit DaVita.com/About.
Forward-Looking Statements
This release contains or refers to certain forward-looking
statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws
including, among other things, aspirational goals, such as the
Company's 2025 ESG goals, diversity and belonging initiatives and
strategic initiatives including with respect to the home dialysis
modality. Without limiting the foregoing, statements including the
words "expect," "intend," "will," "target," "goal" and similar
expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
The Company bases its forward-looking statements on information
available to it on the date of this release, and undertakes no
obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking
statements, whether as a result of changed circumstances, new
information, future events or otherwise, except as may otherwise be
required by law. It may be difficult to achieve many of the
Company's 2025 goals during the desired timeframes or at all.
Actual future events could also differ materially due to numerous
factors that involve substantial known and unknown risks and
uncertainties including, among other things, the risks and
uncertainties set forth under "Risk Factors" and elsewhere in the
Company's reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and the other risks
and uncertainties discussed in any subsequent reports that the
Company files with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time
to time.
Contact Information
Media:
Megan Anthony
megan.anthony@davita.com
(720) 631-2170
1 Modality selections and decisions related to a
patient's care are always made by the attending nephrologist and
patient, and provided pursuant to a physician's order.
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