Actor and singer/songwriter Charles Esten
kicks off collaboration with special performance for patients and
healthcare staff at TriStar Centennial Medical Center
HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading
healthcare providers, and Musicians On Call (MOC), a nonprofit that
brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients,
families and caregivers in healthcare environments, today announced
a new collaboration to bring MOC’s live music programs to more
hospitals across the country.
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As part of the collaboration, HCA Healthcare is giving $1
million to fund the creation and launch of MOC’s proprietary online
platform designed to enhance its program delivery to enable the
organization to reach more hospital patients and healthcare workers
nationwide. The online platform will help make MOC's in-person and
virtual programs more accessible to hospitals and help enable
hospital patients and volunteers to easily connect to MOC’s
programs. This initiative aims to transform how the healing power
of music is used to improve the patient experience and make live
music in a healthcare facility truly “on call.”
“We are excited to be working alongside Musicians On Call to
bring their innovative live music programs to our facilities across
the country,” said Sam Hazen, chief executive officer of HCA
Healthcare. “We pride ourselves on providing our patients and
caregivers with a high quality experience inside our hospitals, and
our expanded collaboration with Musicians On Call will help us to
do that.”
“As more healthcare facilities see the profound, positive impact
live music has on both patients and staff, the demand for Musicians
On Call’s programs has grown at record speed. With this platform,
facilities will be able to connect with MOC more efficiently so
they can immediately experience the benefits of our programs,” said
Pete Griffin, president and chief executive officer of Musicians On
Call. “This technology would not be possible without the support of
funders like HCA Healthcare, whose belief in our mission is crucial
in helping us on our path to the next million served.”
Since 2012, HCA Healthcare and the HCA Healthcare Foundation
have given more than $200,000 to support MOC. HCA Healthcare
facilities, including TriStar Centennial Women's and Children's
Hospital, Sarah Cannon Cancer Center, TriStar Centennial Medical
Center, Good Samaritan Hospital, Sunrise Hospital & Medical
Center and Sunrise Children's Hospital, have hosted MOC Bedside
programs for their patients and staff. Additionally, HCA Healthcare
has supported a number of special programs and initiatives
including the annual Hope for the Holidays virtual concert
experience and MOC’s 20th anniversary celebration. HCA Healthcare
has colleagues who sit on MOC’s board of directors and advisory
council, and serve as Volunteer Guides and Volunteer Musicians.
Since Musicians On Call began in 1999, more than one million
people have experienced the healing power of music in the hospital.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, MOC ensured its mission wasn’t
interrupted by focusing its resources on expanding the capacity and
reach of its virtual program, which has now impacted more than
250,000 people nationwide. With the new platform, the organization
will have the ability to reach up to ten times the number of
hospitals it currently serves.
MOC’s virtual and in-person programming are scheduled to be
implemented in 16 HCA Healthcare hospitals across California,
Florida, Nevada, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas. To kick off
the collaboration, patients and hospital staff at TriStar
Centennial Medical Center were treated to a special live
performance by Charles Esten, star of CMT’s NASHVILLE and Netflix
original series Outer Banks, this week. Esten visited patients in
their rooms for private performances at the bedside. His visit
marked MOC’s 10th event held at TriStar Centennial and the first
in-person program since pandemic restrictions were put in
place.
For more than 20 years Musicians On Call has used music to
promote and complement the healing process through in-person,
virtual and digital streaming programs. For more information on
Musicians On Call visit www.musiciansoncall.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 Musicians On Call (MOC) Bringing a dose of joy to
the hospital experience for more than one million people since
1999, Musicians On Call (MOC) brings live and recorded music
directly to the bedsides of patients, families and caregivers in
healthcare environments nationwide. Through its programs, MOC
Volunteers perform live for children and adults facing any health
challenge, including Veterans recovering in VA facilities, family
members supporting loved ones in need and healthcare workers caring
for patients. To meet the increasing demand for MOC’s programs, and
its vision of a world filled with the healing power of music, this
year it will launch a proprietary online platform that will
transform how the healing power of music is used to improve the
patient experience, making live music in a healthcare facility
truly “on call.” MOC’s network includes Volunteer Guides, Volunteer
Musicians and renowned artist supporters including Bruce
Springsteen, Dolly Parton, Kelly Clarkson, Darius Rucker, Katy
Perry, Jason Derulo, Ed Sheeran, Olivia Rodrigo, Reba McEntire,
Camila Cabello, Nick Jonas, Blake Shelton, Keith Urban, Pharrell,
Kelsea Ballerini, Amos Lee, Luis Fonsi, Peter Frampton, Luke Bryan,
Charles Esten and many more. For more information on how Musicians
On Call delivers the healing power of music, visit
www.musiciansoncall.org.
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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MUSICIANS ON CALL: Media: Melinda LaFollette
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