In the late 1980s a college student in Boston began turning her ideas into music, busking on the streets of Cambridge. In 1988 she released a self-titled album, Tracy Chapman, showcasing a unique voice that resonated broadly with people. One of her first hits was Fast Car, a song about a young woman seeking a better life.

Among the many people who grew up listening to her songs was a young man in rural North Carolina. Years later, that man became an established country music singer, and he reached out to Tracy Chapman to ask if he could cover Fast Car. Not to change it, sample it, or selectively edit it; but to honor her songwriting genius by singing it just the way she wrote it. Following his success with the song, Luke Combs and Tracy Chapman shared the stage at the 2024 Grammy Awards in a powerful collaboration that united generations and genres of music.

This collaborative philosophy underlies the approach that the Avanos Ethics & Compliance team takes to help our business succeed. We work with stakeholders across the company, collaborating with people in every department and leaders at all levels to help us succeed in our highly regulated environment. Across Avanos we have teams of dedicated and hardworking people who are creating their own "Fast Cars" - products, processes and ideas that are truly amazing and deserve to be leveraged across the business. We are actively looking for those opportunities to partner, to bring those ideas to new parts of the business.

At its core, Ethics & Compliance is not something that our team does. It's something that Avanos does. It's a commitment that we all make - to do the right things for our patients, their families, the prescribers, our employees, and our shareholders. And by working together, even in combinations that might not seem intuitive, like connecting an 80s song about life in the inner city with a 2000s country music singer, that collaboration works when we respect each other, act with a shared purpose, and focus on doing the right things the right way.

In the late 1980s a college student in Boston began turning her ideas into music, busking on the streets of Cambridge. In 1988 she released a self-titled album, Tracy Chapman, showcasing a unique voice that resonated broadly with people. One of her first hits was Fast Car, a song about a young woman seeking a better life.

Among the many people who grew up listening to her songs was a young man in rural North Carolina. Years later, that man became an established country music singer, and he reached out to Tracy Chapman to ask if he could cover Fast Car. Not to change it, sample it, or selectively edit it; but to honor her songwriting genius by singing it just the way she wrote it. Following his success with the song, Luke Combs and Tracy Chapman shared the stage at the 2024 Grammy Awards in a powerful collaboration that united generations and genres of music.

This collaborative philosophy underlies the approach that the Avanos Ethics & Compliance team takes to help our business succeed. We work with stakeholders across the company, collaborating with people in every department and leaders at all levels to help us succeed in our highly regulated environment. Across Avanos we have teams of dedicated and hardworking people who are creating their own "Fast Cars" - products, processes and ideas that are truly amazing and deserve to be leveraged across the business. We are actively looking for those opportunities to partner, to bring those ideas to new parts of the business.

At its core, Ethics & Compliance is not something that our team does. It's something that Avanos does. It's a commitment that we all make - to do the right things for our patients, their families, the prescribers, our employees, and our shareholders. And by working together, even in combinations that might not seem intuitive, like connecting an 80s song about life in the inner city with a 2000s country music singer, that collaboration works when we respect each other, act with a shared purpose, and focus on doing the right things the right way.