HCA Healthcare Announces HCA Healthcare Foundation’s $600,000 Grant to Volunteers of America
22 August 2022 - 02:30PM
Business Wire
Health system enters two-year national
partnership to promote mental wellbeing and resiliency of first
responders and frontline caregivers
HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: HCA), one of the nation’s leading
healthcare providers, today announced a $600,000 grant to
Volunteers of America (VOA) through the HCA Healthcare Foundation
and its Healthier Tomorrow Fund to promote mental wellness and
resilience among first responders. Through this contribution, VOA
intends to scale its VOA|ReST 4 First Responders program in
targeted areas served by HCA Healthcare, such as HealthONE in
Denver, Medical City Healthcare in Dallas-Fort Worth and HCA
Florida Healthcare.
VOA has been providing support to military veterans through the
Shay Moral Injury Center’s evidence-based Resilience Strengthen
Training™ (RST) program since 2017. In response to the COVID-19
pandemic, VOA adapted the program for frontline healthcare workers
to process moral distress and maintain resilience and commitment to
their work. The VOA|ReST 4 First Responders program is an online,
one-hour small group process led by a trained peer specialist to
address the experience of workplace stress and trauma.
“We are proud to partner with the Volunteers of America as they
provide additional access to their VOA|ReST 4 First Responders
program,” said Joanne Pulles, vice president of community
engagement at HCA Healthcare and president of the HCA Healthcare
Foundation. “Our frontline caregivers show incredible resilience
every day, and we are honored to partner with organizations that
provide support to these remarkable individuals serving on the
frontlines in communities across the country.”
With the support of the Healthier Tomorrow Fund, an $80 million
community impact fund focused on addressing high-priority community
needs and health equity, VOA will launch a national campaign and
peer support service to help an expanded group of First Responders,
including fire, police, EMT personnel, hospital and emergency staff
process experiences of moral distress and burnout.
“This grant means we will be able to make a meaningful impact in
the lives of first responders who are struggling under the demands
of their careers,” said Dr. Rita Brock, director of the VOA Shay
Moral Injury Center. “There is no fix for moral distress, only the
opportunity to address it through resilience building and
connection, and that’s exactly what our peer-support
sessions do.”
With more than 300,000 annual behavioral health patient
encounters, HCA Healthcare is a leading provider of behavioral
health services. In addition to patient care, HCA Healthcare
promotes mental health and wellness for its nurses and caregivers
through programs such as Nurse Care, a unique, free and
confidential mental health program for the needs of HCA Healthcare
hospital-based nurses. HCA Healthcare caregivers will also have
access to the VOA|ReST 4 First Responders program.
In addition, HCA Healthcare has responded to the growing need
for mental health resources and awareness through partnerships in
communities across the country, including:
- Girl Scouts: In 2022, HCA Healthcare announced a $1.38
million grant to Girl Scouts to support Girl Scouts’ Mental Health
101 workshops, a series of workshops aimed at addressing mental
wellness among girls.
- EVERFI: In 2020, HCA Healthcare announced a
collaboration with EVERFI, an international technology company
driving social change through education, to implement an
interactive, mental health and wellness digital education course
for middle and high school students. With HCA Healthcare’s support,
the Mental Wellness Basics course has reached more than 126,000
students and approximately 1,300 teachers at 548 schools across all
15 of HCA Healthcare’s U.S. divisions.
- The Jason Foundation: In 2013, HCA Healthcare formally
partnered with The Jason Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the
prevention of youth suicide through educational and awareness
programs that equip young people, educators/youth workers, and
parents with the tools and resources to help identify and assist
at-risk youth. HCA Healthcare has 13 The Jason Foundation affiliate
offices across the nation. These offices serve as hubs where
parents, teachers, guidance counselors, students, churches, and
other community organizations can obtain educational materials and
learn about training programs available through The Jason
Foundation.
- Psych Hub podcast series: This year, HCA Healthcare and
Psych Hub, the world's largest mental health education platform, in
collaboration with Columbia University’s Department of Psychiatry,
partnered to create a 10-episode podcast series called “You Ask, We
Answer” to bring people credible online mental health
education.
Since its founding in 1982, the HCA Healthcare Foundation has
awarded more than $231 million in grants. In May 2021, HCA
Healthcare announced the Healthier Tomorrow Fund, which provides
grants to nonprofit organizations in 25 cities where HCA Healthcare
has a presence.
About HCA Healthcare
Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading
providers of healthcare services comprising 182 hospitals and
approximately 2,300 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery
centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician
clinics, in 20 states and the United Kingdom. With its founding in
1968, HCA Healthcare created a new model for hospital care in the
United States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals,
deliver patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine.
HCA Healthcare has conducted a number of clinical studies,
including one that demonstrated that full-term delivery is
healthier than early elective delivery of babies and another that
identified a clinical protocol that can reduce bloodstream
infections in ICU patients by 44%. HCA Healthcare is a learning
health system that uses its more than 35 million annual patient
encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives.
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Healthcare, Inc. and its affiliates.
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