Dignity Health | hello Healthy | Winter 2018-2019

4 DignityHealth.org/Bakersfield | Winter 2018–2019 Marching with a In October more than 500 people laced up their walking shoes to celebrate diversity in our community during the inaugural Dignity Health March for Humankindness at California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB). Community leaders, friends, faith groups, students, and co-workers walked together to highlight what unites us as a community and to spread the message of kindness—one step at a time. “Bakersfield is a diverse community with people coming from many different backgrounds,” says Matab Singh, MD, an internal medicine physician at Dignity Health. “Getting to know each other can help increase understanding. At the end of the day, we are all human beings. We have to be kind with each other.”