HCA Healthcare and The HCA Healthcare Foundation Announce $44 Million in Contributions to Community Organizations In 2022
23 Februar 2023 - 10:45PM
Business Wire
HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading
healthcare providers, today announced that the company and the HCA
Healthcare Foundation gave a total of more than $44 million to
community organizations in 2022, exceeding the $41 million given in
2021. This includes HCA Healthcare and HCA Healthcare Foundation
contributions to organizations focused on disaster relief, health
equity, access to healthcare careers and community needs, as well
as matching gifts which support colleague charities of choice.
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As part of HCA Healthcare's broader
commitment to give $10 million over three years to Historically
Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving
Institutions (HSIs), the organization announced donations in
October 2022 to Fisk University and Tennessee State University to
advance diversity in healthcare. (Photo: Business Wire)
“Caring for the communities where our colleagues live and work,
through charitable donations, strategic partnerships, board
leadership and volunteering, is a top priority for HCA Healthcare,”
said Joanne Pulles, vice president of community engagement at HCA
Healthcare and president of the HCA Healthcare Foundation. “It is
an honor to work alongside and invest in organizations who share
our desire to improve lives and give our communities a healthier
tomorrow.”
Throughout the year, HCA Healthcare invested in a number of
initiatives to improve health equity. In October 2022, HCA
Healthcare and the HCA Healthcare Foundation announced a $15
million collaboration with the American Heart Association that
seeks to prevent, treat and beat stroke, partly by addressing
health disparities and resource gaps through local health impact
work. HCA Healthcare also strengthened its longstanding partnership
with March of Dimes to improve maternal health outcomes by
contributing more than $1.1 million last year. Additionally, HCA
Healthcare announced a collaboration with Johnson & Johnson
which will in part focus on improving lung health equity in the
Black community.
HCA Healthcare is also investing in institutions which educate
aspiring healthcare professionals. In January 2022, the HCA
Healthcare Foundation, through its Healthier Tomorrow Fund,
committed $1.35 million over the next three years to Educate Texas,
an initiative which aims to increase student access to programs
that enable healthcare careers. Recently, $250,000 in Healthier
Tomorrow Fund grants were given to community colleges and
universities to help high school students nationwide learn about
various healthcare careers.
The company has also announced approximately $6.8 million
towards its $10 million commitment to supporting Historically Black
Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions
(HSIs). Most recently, HCA Healthcare donated $1.5 million to Fisk
University to support scholarships for students pursuing a degree
in nursing and $1.5 million to Tennessee State University to create
scholarship opportunities for undergraduate students pursuing
careers in healthcare and computer science.
In addition to direct contributions, the company also encourages
volunteering and offers matching gifts to help colleagues further
support the charity of their choice. In 2022, colleague giving with
HCA Healthcare matching reached nearly $17 million, and HCA
Healthcare colleagues logged approximately 143,878 hours spent
volunteering.
HCA Healthcare and the HCA Healthcare Foundation have a long
history of supporting the Middle Tennessee community where HCA
Healthcare is headquartered. In 2022, the HCA Healthcare
Foundation, through its Middle Tennessee Fund, awarded $6.3 million
in grants to 219 nonprofit agencies across Middle Tennessee. 80% of
grants went to organizations focused on promoting health and
well-being and providing primary care or basic needs to members of
our communities. Other grant recipients included those focusing on
education and the arts.
Additionally, HCA Healthcare and its colleagues invested in
communities through the following initiatives in 2022:
- Disaster Recovery Efforts: In 2022, HCA Healthcare continued to
help communities impacted by natural disasters. After Hurricane Ian
made landfall on the west coast of Florida, leaving more than 2
million people without power and causing extensive damage to the
communities in its path, HCA Healthcare gave $1.25 million, plus
colleague matching gifts, to support organizations providing relief
efforts. Earlier in the year, the company committed up to $400,000
in funding, colleague matching and in-kind donations to aid in
recovery and relief after historic flooding left communities in
Eastern Kentucky devastated. HCA Healthcare also contributed
$250,000 to the American Red Cross as a part of its continued
support of the Disaster Responder Program.
- Healthier Food for Healthier Tomorrows Food & Nutrition
Drive: HCA Healthcare colleagues continued to fight against food
insecurity with the second-annual holiday food drive and fundraiser
that provided approximately 878,000 nutritious meals to food banks
in communities across the country.
- Mental Health: In May 2022, the HCA Healthcare Foundation
announced a $1.38 million donation to Girl Scouts of the USA to
create a series of workshops over the next three years aimed at
addressing mental wellness among girls. In August 2022, HCA
Healthcare gave $600,000 to Volunteers of America to promote mental
wellness and resilience among first responders.
In addition to contributions to community organizations, HCA
Healthcare provided uncompensated care in 2022 at an estimated cost
of approximately $3.5 billion.
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 HCA Healthcare Foundation
The mission of the HCA Healthcare Foundation is to promote
health and well-being and strive to make a positive impact in all
the communities HCA Healthcare serves. We accomplish this mission
by providing leadership, service and financial support to effective
non-profit organizations working individually and collectively.
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Healthcare” as used throughout this document refer to HCA
Healthcare, Inc. and its affiliates.
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