At present, we’re proud to announce a number of HCA Healthcare Basis grants, by its More healthy Tomorrow Fund, to offer highschool college students early entry to careers in healthcare and to attach unemployed and underemployed job seekers with significant healthcare profession alternatives. The HCA Healthcare Basis is giving $250,000 to group faculties and universities and $130,000 to the City League of Broward County.
“We’re proud to put money into the subsequent era of healthcare professionals by our More healthy Tomorrow Fund grants. We consider serving to to offer larger publicity and entry to the numerous totally different careers in healthcare won’t solely strengthen the business, but additionally the communities we serve.”
Joanne Pulles, vp of group engagement at HCA Healthcare and president of the
HCA Healthcare Basis
The HCA Healthcare Basis will work with group faculties and universities to assist highschool college students find out about varied healthcare careers by the next grants:
- The HCA Healthcare Basis is giving $50,000 to Austin Neighborhood School (ACC) to fund the Future Healthcare Heroes program, which selects 30 rising juniors and seniors to be paired with an expert mentor from both ACC or a healthcare establishment within the area to study from and attend experiential studying occasions. These embrace roundtable discussions and excursions of native healthcare studying services and hospitals.
- Metro State College of Denver (MSU) is receiving $50,000 to fund their Designing Your Life workshops, Navigating Your Healthcare Profession occasion and Well being Fairness lecture to assist construct consciousness and generate a powerful curiosity in a wide range of healthcare careers.
- Miami Dade School (MDC) is receiving $50,000 in direction of their Care Cadre Nurse Exploration Expertise which brings 24 highschool college students collectively from traditionally marginalized backgrounds to generate curiosity in healthcare careers in nursing management.
- The HCA Healthcare Basis can also be giving $50,000 to Pensacola State School to assist fund the Nurse Explorer Boot Camp to assist increase and speed up the nursing pipeline by bringing 12-20 highschool college students collectively, aiming to encourage them to pursue a profession in nursing.
- The College of Texas at Arlington (UTA) can also be receiving $50,000 to increase on its current twin credit score initiative to assist present a strong expertise for highschool college students, together with nursing, train science, public well being, and different healthcare-related fields by recruitment and experiential studying actions.
As well as, the HCA Healthcare Basis is giving $130,000 to the City League of Broward County as a part of the Healthcare Workforce Enhancement Initiative. By way of this grant, the City League of Broward County will pilot a workforce growth program for many who have been disconnected from the workforce to discover careers within the healthcare subject. Their complete mannequin contains profession evaluation and training, credentialing and job placement help.
The More healthy Tomorrow Fund has offered $2.68 million by 21 grants to help entry to healthcare careers. In 2022 alone, the fund gave $905,000 by 15 grants.
Investing in training
HCA Healthcare and the HCA Healthcare Basis proceed to put money into efforts to additional healthcare training and deal with the nationwide nursing and caregiver scarcity. This contains:
- Over the 2021-2022 faculty yr, there was engagement with college students in each HCA Healthcare division by partnerships with native excessive faculties, together with healthcare profession programming, visitor audio system, job shadows and subject journeys.
- In Nashville, HCA Healthcare and the HCA Healthcare Basis help the Academies of Nashville by connecting college students and lecturers with HCA Healthcare specialists and volunteers, funding particular initiatives and supporting partnerships.
- In 2020, HCA Healthcare acquired majority possession of Galen School of Nursing, one of many largest educators of nurses in the US and has now opened 12 new campuses.
- HCA Healthcare has dedicated $10 million to Traditionally Black Faculties and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Establishments (HSIs) to advance variety within the healthcare profession pipeline. Since 2021, HCA Healthcare has introduced roughly $6.75 million to a number of faculties and universities in direction of that dedication.
- Establishing the Patricia Frist Memorial Scholarship to help dependents of HCA Healthcare colleagues in pursuing post-secondary training.
Since its inception in 2021, the More healthy Tomorrow Fund has dedicated $18.3 million in grants to 51 organizations. Funding the More healthy Tomorrow Fund on the HCA Healthcare Basis is one instance of the numerous methods HCA Healthcare is making a constructive affect within the communities it serves.
