Objective: The purpose of this research was to determine the diversity perceptionbetween the healthcare professionals within the scope of the diversity managementand also to review whether there was a relationship between the demographicfeatures of these professionals and the diversity climate.Methods: 381 healthcare staffs who were working in a public hospital in IstanbulDistrict attended to this descriptive research. The research data was obtained by theface to face meeting method via the survey. The results of the study was analyzed bySPSS program, and the significance level was accepted as p<0,05.Results: The attendees mentioned that the first differentness factors that separatea person from another were respectively the character (65,1%), education (47,5%)and culture (46,5%). The attendees who have higher monthly income perceived thedifferentness climate as more favorable in comparison with the attendees with lowerincome. This positive perception was seen as higher in physicians than the nursesand the midwives. The attendees who born in Istanbul perceived the diversity climateas more positive than the attendees who born out of Istanbul.Conclusion: It was found in this survey that the available demographic variablesdid not occur a significant difference in the diversity perception. The employees whowork in the health sector need to work concertedly with each other. The individualdifferences which apart from the unconvertible differences such as age and gender;and cause conflicts and unjustness between them should be eliminated or minimized.