HCA Healthcare Named a 2021 World’s Most Ethical Company
February 23 2021 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Ethisphere designation honors companies who
understand the importance of leading, making values-based
decisions, and their overall commitment to integrity
HCA Healthcare (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading
healthcare providers, today announced that it has been recognized
for the 11th time by Ethisphere, a global leader in defining and
advancing the standards of ethical business practices, as one of
the 2021 World’s Most Ethical Companies. HCA Healthcare is one of
only seven honorees in the Healthcare Providers category.
“We are honored to again be recognized as a World’s Most Ethical
Company and owe it all to our incredible colleagues, especially
those working on the front lines,” said Sam Hazen, chief executive
officer of HCA Healthcare. “This acknowledgement underscores that,
even when faced with a threat to public health and safety like that
of a pandemic, we are committed to doing what’s right for our
people, our patients, our communities and other stakeholders.”
The COVID-19 pandemic was at the forefront of 2020 and HCA
Healthcare responded by protecting its colleagues and patients, and
by partnering with others to improve care beyond the organization.
HCA Healthcare has not laid-off a single employee due to the
pandemic, and in April, it instituted a pandemic pay program, which
allowed the organization to continue to pay more than 127,000
colleagues, even when their hours were affected by the significant
decrease in patients visiting hospitals across the country.
Additionally, HCA Healthcare hospitals do not bill patients who are
diagnosed with COVID-19, whether they have insurance or not, for
testing or hospital care related to the treatment of COVID-19.
As a learning health system, HCA Healthcare analyzes data from
its approximately 35 million patient encounters each year to
develop best practices that improve patient care. To help combat
COVID-19, the health system teamed up with Google and SADA on a
data portal to help communities prepare and respond to COVID-19,
offered more than $1 million to local community partners to aid in
coronavirus relief efforts and participated in the White House
collaborative to provide up to 1,000 ventilators to other health
systems.
“The world has faced tremendous obstacles this past year, but we
are proud to be recognized for the positive impact we are having in
the communities that we serve,” said Kathi Whalen, senior vice
president and chief ethics and compliance officer at HCA
Healthcare. “During these challenging times, our colleagues have
shown an unwavering commitment to doing what is right.”
In 2020, HCA Healthcare donated more than $45 million to
community organizations and provided charity care, uninsured
discounts and other uncompensated care at a cost of $3.4 billion.
Last year, HCA Healthcare colleagues spent more than 83,000 hours
volunteering in the communities they serve. As part of its
sustainability plan, HCA Healthcare seeks to protect and preserve
the environment inside and outside of its facilities by encouraging
the reduction of energy usage throughout its facilities and
considering the environment in all new construction and renovation
projects. In 2020, HCA Healthcare hospitals across the country were
honored with 60 national Practice Greenhealth awards for their
steadfast sustainability efforts.
Recognition by Ethisphere is in part affirmation of HCA
Healthcare’s commitment to fostering a culture of diversity and
belief that excellence in healthcare starts with a foundation of
inclusion, compassion and respect. HCA Healthcare continues to
deliver on this promise exemplified in recent diversity and
inclusion efforts, including its award-winning BRAVE Conversations
program, which provides colleagues an opportunity to discuss
complex topics in a safe and respectful setting. HCA Healthcare
also announced a $10 million investment over the next three years
in Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HCBUs) and
Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs).
Additionally, in response to a heightened focus on racial
injustice, HCA Healthcare instituted a provisional social justice
match, which supported gifts from colleagues to organizations and
nonprofits supporting racial justice and addressing health equity
for communities of color. In total, HCA Healthcare and its
colleagues helped make an impact of $227,364 across 21 total
organizations from June 5 to July 31, 2020.
“While addressing the tough challenges of 2020, HCA Healthcare
led through resilience and a commitment to ethics and integrity,”
said Ethisphere CEO, Timothy Erblich. “The World’s Most Ethical
Companies honorees continue to demonstrate an unwavering commitment
to the highest values and positively impacting the communities they
serve. Congratulations to everyone at HCA Healthcare for earning
the World’s Most Ethical Companies designation.”
In 2021, Ethisphere recognized 135 honorees spanning 22
countries and 47 industries. The full list of the 2021 World's Most
Ethical Companies can be found at
https://worldsmostethicalcompanies.com/honorees.
About HCA Healthcare
Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading
providers of healthcare services comprising more than 2,000 sites
of care, including 185 hospitals, 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 percent. 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.
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