Community-Focused Help for All

Stamford Health is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Here at Stamford Health, we earn the trust of all by celebrating and understanding diversity, being inclusive, and respectful of others, and ensuring equitable treatment for all.

One way Stamford Health demonstrates its commitment to DEI is the work it does in, and with, the community to benefit the health and well-being of residents in lower Fairfield County and in Stamford. Many of our programs and services focus on health equity by increasing access to care for socially vulnerable populations and listening to what our community indicates it needs.

For example, we provide significant funding to Optimus, a federally qualified health center (FQHC) in Stamford, to ensure that lower-income residents can obtain high-quality primary and specialty care. Optimus is walkable for many economically distressed neighborhoods and is on public bus lines. Stamford Health’s medical residents work under Stamford Health physicians at Optimus to further assist the FQHC and educate future physicians about the needs of socially vulnerable residents.