HCA Healthcare Donates $250,000 to American Red Cross to Support Disaster Relief and Preparedness Nationwide
30 August 2022 - 2:30PM
Business Wire
HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading
healthcare providers, today announced its continued support of the
American Red Cross through a $250,000 donation to the
organization’s Disaster Responder Program. This is HCA Healthcare’s
fourth annual contribution to the program, which helps the Red
Cross respond immediately to disasters, helps families during the
recovery process and prepares people for future emergencies.
HCA Healthcare has a long history of working with the Red Cross
to put critical systems and supplies in place before disaster
strikes. This pre-investment in disaster relief helps Red Cross
workers, 90 percent of which are volunteers, have the
infrastructure, resources and technology to provide care and
comfort to those in need. HCA Healthcare has contributed to and
uses the organization’s RC View, an advanced geographic information
system (GIS) and data visualization tool that provides emergency
response teams with a shared disaster response capability.
“We know all too well the devastation communities across the
nation endure when disaster strikes,” said Sam Hazen, chief
executive officer at HCA Healthcare. “We are proud to continue our
partnership with the Red Cross to support those in need, through
both the Disaster Responder program and through HCA Healthcare’s
Enterprise Emergency Operations Center.”
The Red Cross responds to more than 60,000 disasters of all
sizes each year. As a Disaster Responder Program member, HCA
Healthcare works alongside the Red Cross to respond in real-time,
including coordinating supplies and resources, supporting shelters
and matching patients with community shelters when discharged. HCA
Healthcare’s Enterprise Emergency Operations Center (EEOC), a
multi-disciplinary incident response team of nearly 200 leaders,
works with experts across the HCA Healthcare enterprise to provide
resources and coordinate responses before, during and after a
crisis. In August 2021, the EEOC worked directly with the Red Cross
to coordinate supplies and transport patients to emergency shelters
after Hurricane Ida hit New Orleans. The same year, the EEOC worked
alongside the Red Cross to aid in the Kentucky Tornado relief
efforts.
“The American Red Cross responds to a disaster every eight
minutes on average,” said Brad Kieserman, vice president of
disaster operations and logistics. “With the advance support of HCA
Healthcare through the Disaster Responder Program, the Red Cross
can prepare individuals and communities for the unexpected and
provide relief whenever and wherever disasters strike. We are truly
grateful for their annual partnership that helps ensure we can
deliver our lifesaving mission to those in need each year.”
HCA Healthcare has provided approximately $5 million in
financial support to the Red Cross for disaster relief efforts over
the last six years, including Hurricane Harvey in 2017, hurricanes
Florence and Michael in 2018, the Texas winter storms in 2021 and
the tornadoes in Kentucky that same year. Earlier this month, HCA
Healthcare gave $100,000 to the Red Cross during historic flooding
in Kentucky.
In addition to investing in disaster preparation, HCA Healthcare
established the HCA Healthcare Hope Fund to support colleagues in
disasters. The HCA Healthcare Hope Fund is an employee-run,
employee-supported 501(c)(3) charity that provides financial aid
and resources to employees after an extended illness, injury,
disaster or other special situations. In 2021, the HCA Healthcare
Hope Fund provided $10.7 million in grants that helped more than
4,800 families.
For more information on the American Red Cross, visit
redcross.org.
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.
Please click here to connect with HCA Healthcare on social
media.
About American Red Cross
The American Red Cross shelters, feeds and provides comfort to
victims of disasters; supplies about 40% of the nation's blood;
teaches skills that save lives; distributes international
humanitarian aid; and supports veterans, military members and their
families. The Red Cross is a nonprofit organization that depends on
volunteers and the generosity of the American public to deliver its
mission. For more information, please visit redcross.org or
cruzrojaamericana.org, or visit us on Twitter at @RedCross.
All references to “Company,” “HCA” and “HCA
Healthcare” as used throughout this document refer to HCA
Healthcare, Inc. and its affiliates.
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