athenahealth Announces 2016 Corporate Responsibility Results and New Innovation Award
November 17 2016 - 4:01PM
athenaGives program donates over $750,000 in
grants and service donations to free clinics and innovative
nonprofits, surpassing $2 million in donations to date
athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHN), a leading provider of
network-enabled services and mobile applications for healthcare
providers nationwide, today announced that it has donated over
$750,000 in grants and services to deserving nonprofit and
charitable health organizations in 2016. The employee-directed cash
grants and athenaNet® service donations are initiatives of the
company's corporate responsibility program, athenaGives, which
supports local non-profit organizations and free and charitable
clinics domestically and abroad which share athenahealth’s vision
to unbreak healthcare.
In 2016, the company awarded individual cash grants valued up to
$20,000 to charitable organizations fixing health care problems and
connecting patients in need to quality care. In partnership with
the More Disruption Please program, athenaGives provided additional
grants to disruptive, innovative healthcare nonprofits. athenaGives
continued its hallmark service donation program, donating use of
its network-enabled services to forty free and charitable
clinics—more than doubling the number on the athenahealth
network.
This year’s athenaGives beneficiaries demonstrate the variety of
opportunities to address pain points and unbreak healthcare. Boston
Health Care for the Homeless Program provides comprehensive care to
Boston’s most vulnerable and resilient citizens; Zen Hospice
Project in San Francisco reimagines the end of life experience; and
SIRUM saves lives by connecting unopened unexpired medications to
patients in need.
“SIRUM is thrilled to receive support from athenahealth, a
company that shares our commitment to improving healthcare through
innovation,” said Kiah Williams, SIRUM co-founder. “By using
technology to redistribute unused medications, SIRUM seeks to
reduce waste and improve access to prescription drugs for millions
of Americans. We are grateful that athenahealth not only
appreciates innovative models like ours, but also commits funds to
help them scale.”
Since athenaGives’ founding in 2010, the program has donated
more than $2 million in grants and services to healthcare
nonprofits. Most notably, the program has helped volunteer
providers in 55 free and charitable clinics across the U.S. use
athenaNet to care for more than 60,000 uninsured and underinsured
individuals. The program also works abroad, donating its
services to two charitable clinics in Haiti. Cash
donations invest directly in the health of communities where
athenahealth offices are located: Watertown, MA; Belfast, ME; San
Francisco, CA; Atlanta, GA; Austin, TX; Princeton, NJ; and Chennai,
India.
“athenahealth is working to unbreak healthcare, but we can’t do
it alone,” said Jonathan Bush, athenahealth CEO. “With
athenaGives, we can maximize athenahealth’s social impact by
investing in high performing, innovative nonprofits and leveraging
our network, knowledge, and work for good. These inspiring
organizations aren’t just plugging holes in the system and
delivering care under extreme conditions; they’re applying fresh,
innovative thinking to some of the industry’s most entrenched
problems, and are fixing them from the ground up in athenahealth’s
own backyard. That’s work athenahealth is proud and honored
to fund.”
To learn more about athenaGives, visit
http://www.athenahealth.com/about/athenagives.
About athenahealth, Inc.athenahealth is a
leading provider of network-enabled services for electronic health
records (EHR), revenue cycle management and medical billing,
patient engagement, care coordination, and population health
management, as well as Epocrates and other point-of-care mobile
apps. We connect care and drive meaningful, measurable results for
more than 85,000 health care providers nationwide. For more
information, please visit www.athenahealth.com.
Contact Info:
Holly Spring
athenahealth, Inc. (Media)
media@athenahealth.com
617-402-1631
Dana Quattrochi
athenahealth, Inc. (Investors)
investorrelations@athenahealth.com
617-402-1329
Jamie Mercurio
athenahealth, Inc. (Corporate Responsibility)
athenaGives@athenahealth.com
617-402-1463
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