HCA Healthcare Releases 2024 Annual Impact Report - Seite 3

In early 2024, Ethisphere recognized HCA Healthcare as one of the 2024 World’s Most Ethical Companies for the 14^th time for the organization’s commitment to business integrity through robust ethics, compliance and governance programs.

Giving back to communities

HCA Healthcare embraces its responsibility to help support a significant portion of the local economies where its colleagues live and serve. In 2023, HCA Healthcare and the HCA Healthcare Foundation gave more than $43 million to community organizations across the nation. Additionally, HCA Healthcare colleagues logged more than 180,000 volunteer hours and $16.9 million in giving with HCA Healthcare matching.

In 2023, the HCA Healthcare Foundation invested over $12.2 million through grants to 234 agencies and nonprofit organizations through its Middle Tennessee and Healthier Tomorrow Funds. The Healthier Tomorrow Fund, a community impact fund focused on addressing high-priority community needs and advancing health equity, also announced a new Health Equity Catalyst Grant Program, intended to provide operational support to organizations addressing health inequities in a defined focus area to fight food insecurity.

The HCA Healthcare Foundation strengthened its support of Girl Scouts of the USA and helped to launch a new series of Mental Wellness Patch Programs to help address mental wellness among girls in 4^th through 12^th grade. To date, more than 7,000 girls have earned their Mental Wellness patch since the program’s launch.

As part of its commitment to invest $10 million over three years in partnerships with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) to help create opportunities for future healthcare leaders, HCA Healthcare announced a gift of $620,000 to the University of California, Riverside (UCR) to support five scholarships for students enrolled in the UCR School of Medicine. HCA Healthcare has now announced approximately $7.42 million towards this commitment.

For the fifth year, HCA Healthcare supported the American Red Cross through its Annual Disaster Giving Program (ADGP) to help provide funding for strong infrastructure, trained volunteers, innovative technology and critical resources necessary to respond to a disaster. During many disasters, HCA Healthcare works alongside the Red Cross in real-time to coordinate supplies and resources, support shelters and match patients with community shelters when discharged from the hospital. During Hurricane Idalia, HCA Healthcare’s Enterprise Emergency Operations Center (EEOC) provided more than 1,200 staff hours of support, 16 electrical generators and more than 18,000 gallons of diesel fuel to its impacted hospitals to help them continue to provide care.