Right now, we are proud to announce that HCA Healthcare has been recognized for the 13th time by Ethisphere, a worldwide leader in defining and advancing requirements of ethical enterprise practices, as a single of the 2023 World’s Most Ethical Organizations. HCA Healthcare is a single of only 4 honorees in the Healthcare Providers category this year.

“It is an honor to once more be named as a single of the World’s Most Ethical Organizations. We think in undertaking what is suitable for our individuals and colleagues and take excellent pride in getting a optimistic influence in the several communities we serve.”

Sam Hazen, chief executive officer of HCA Healthcare

In 2022, HCA Healthcare and the HCA Healthcare Foundation donated much more than $44 million to neighborhood organizations across the nation, and HCA Healthcare colleagues logged much more than 143,800 hours spent volunteering. In 2022, the HCA Healthcare Foundation continued to assistance the Healthier Tomorrow Fund, a neighborhood effect fund focused on addressing higher-priority neighborhood wants and advancing wellness equity. Considering that its launch in 2021, the Fund has committed much more than $18.three million in communities exactly where HCA Healthcare has a presence, and granted awards to 51 nonprofit partners such as the American Heart Association, Girl Scouts of the USA and Educate Texas. In addition, HCA Healthcare supplied uncompensated care in 2022 at an estimated price of roughly $three.five billion.

HCA Healthcare is committed to offering equitable access to higher-high quality care for individuals and fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace for its colleagues.

• As portion of that commitment, HCA Healthcare formed the Overall health Equity Council in January 2021 and the Patient Advisory Group in 2022 to aid determine and address wellness disparities inside and outdoors of HCA Healthcare hospitals, as properly as to create methods that advance wellness equity.
• In 2022, the enterprise was recognized with the Finest for Vets award for the third consecutive year from Military Occasions and as a military-friendly employer by VIQTORY for the 12th consecutive year.
• HCA Healthcare was also recognized as a single of the “Best Areas to Perform for Disability Inclusion,” getting a top score of 100 on the 2022 Disability Equality Index®, a complete tool for measuring disability workplace inclusion.
• HCA Healthcare and its facilities are members of Practice Greenhealth, which seeks to present sustainable healthcare options. Considering that 2002, HCA Healthcare has received 171 Practice Greenhealth awards.
• The enterprise has also announced roughly $six.eight million towards its $ten million commitment more than 3 years to assistance Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) to strengthen the diversity of the enterprise and invest in the subsequent generation of healthcare leaders.

HCA Healthcare continued its function to combat the nation’s opioid crisis final year. In October 2022, the enterprise hosted it is fourth annual “Crush the Crisis” national opioid take back day, in conjunction with the Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, throughout which 19,423 pounds of unused or expired medicines have been collected at much more than one hundred collection websites across 17 states. Additionally, HCA Healthcare has worked with the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM) Action Collaborative on Countering the U.S. Opioid Epidemic. HCA Healthcare has provided $750,000 to the Collaborative to assistance the improvement of safer discomfort management protocols and the reversal of the opioid crisis.

HCA Healthcare colleagues at Transylvania Regional Hospital and neighborhood law enforcement in North Carolina collected unused or expired medicines throughout the enterprise’s annual “Crush the Crisis” opioid take back day occasion on October 29, 2022.

Final year, the enterprise also announced its enterprise-wide adopted Enhanced Surgical Recovery (ESR) system, which makes use of an individualized, multimodal discomfort management method, only making use of opioids on an as-required basis and rather making use of non-opioid discomfort relievers and other discomfort management approaches. The ESR protocol has resulted in an up to 44% lower in opioid usage for some surgeries.

“Receiving this award for the 13th time would not be achievable without having the integrity and dedication of the roughly 294,000 HCA Healthcare colleagues across the nation and in the UK. We are proud to share this recognition with them, as we collectively strive to foster a optimistic function atmosphere and keep trust with our individuals and communities.”

Kathi Whalen, senior vice president and chief ethics and compliance officer at HCA Healthcare

HCA Healthcare supports its colleagues via important access to monetary and wellness sources. In 2022, The HCA Healthcare Hope Fund, a colleague-run, colleague-supported 501(c)(three) charity, supplied $12 million in help via four,427 grants to HCA Healthcare colleagues and households faced with monetary hardships.

Associated write-up: Stories of hope: HCA Healthcare Hope Fund assists much more than 47,000 colleagues

The enterprise also supplies access to applications such as NurseCare, a totally free and confidential mental wellness system for the wants of HCA Healthcare hospital-primarily based nurses and Optum Wellbeing, which supplies colleagues and their households with up to eight totally free counseling sessions per subject, per year.

“Ethics matters. Organizations that commit to enterprise integrity via robust applications and practices not only elevate requirements and expectations for all, but also have improved extended-term efficiency,” mentioned Erica Salmon Byrne, chief executive officer of Ethisphere.

“We continue to be inspired by the World’s Most Ethical Organizations honorees and their dedication to producing actual effect for their stakeholders and displaying exemplary values-primarily based leadership. Congratulations to HCA Healthcare for earning a location in the World’s Most Ethical Organizations neighborhood.”

Erica Salmon Byrne, chief executive officer of Ethisphere

Grounded in Ethisphere’s proprietary Ethics Quotient®, the World’s Most Ethical Organizations assessment method consists of much more than 200 inquiries on culture, environmental and social practices, ethics and compliance activities, governance, diversity, and initiatives that assistance a sturdy worth chain. The method serves as an operating framework to capture and codify the top practices of organizations across industries and about the globe.

In 2023, 135 honorees have been recognized spanning 19 nations and 46 industries. The complete list of the 2023 World’s Most Ethical Organizations can be discovered on Ethisphere’s web-site.

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