A top executive at a major healthcare provider whose duties involve placing graduate students at hospitals across the country has said that “diversity” is essential for healthcare and advocated for medical schools to accept students in racially proportional ways.
Dr. Monique Butler, the president of Graduate Medical Education for Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Healthcare, has aggressively pushed DEI and racial quotas. HCA, headquartered in Tennessee, also has a history of championing DEI, though many references to such efforts have been scrubbed from its website in recent months.
Butler was named president of HCA’s graduate medical education program in March 2024. One of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs, it offers over 300 residency and fellowship programs across 16 states and 79 hospitals with more than 5000 residents and 300 fellows.
