HCA Healthcare Collaborates With EVERFI to Bring Digital Mental Health and Wellness Course to Middle and High School Students
October 05 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Health system investing nearly $1 million
over next three years to provide education course to school
districts across country
HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA), one of the nation’s leading
healthcare providers, today announced that it has collaborated with
EVERFI, an international technology company driving social change
through education, to launch an interactive, mental health and
wellness digital education course for middle and high school
students in conjunction with Mental Illness Awareness Week.
With more than 2,000 sites of care, including 186 hospitals, in
communities across 21 states, HCA Healthcare is a leader in
behavioral health with the knowledge and data from nearly 200,000
annual behavioral health patient encounters that enable the
organization to make positive advances in educating the community
about mental illness.
Called Mental Wellness Basics, the course is targeted to reach
more than 12,000 middle and high school students in an estimated
105 school districts in Southeast Florida, Western North Carolina,
Colorado, Kansas, Missouri and Texas. HCA Healthcare is investing
nearly $1 million over the next three years to sponsor the
course.
“HCA Healthcare is proud to team up with EVERFI to amplify
mental health education in the community by providing the Mental
Wellness Basics curriculum for our schools and communities,” said
HCA Healthcare vice president of community engagement, Joanne
Pulles. “We strive to provide healthier tomorrows for our
communities by educating and empowering students to identify mental
health challenges and support others in need.”
This investment and collaboration with EVERFI deepens HCA
Healthcare’s commitment to promote whole person wellness and
respond to the growing need for mental health education in the
community.
“Mental wellness is critical for all of us — especially during
this challenging time of change and social isolation,” said HCA
Healthcare president of behavioral health services, Eric Paul. “We
are looking forward to supporting young people with the addition of
our collaboration with EVERFI. We will provide educators and youth
with additional mental health resources in an easy to access
format.”
Mental Wellness Basics is designed to provide teachers with the
additional curriculum to equip students in grades eight to 10 with
the knowledge and skills necessary to build, maintain and promote
positive mental health in themselves and their peers. According to
the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), one in six U.S.
youth (ages 6 to 17) experience a mental health disorder each year.
The course provides learners with accurate information about mental
health disorders, the sharing of peer experiences with mental
illness and messaging that treatment is effective and
available.
“It is critical to approach the challenge of mental health with
awareness from all perspectives,” said EVERFI Founder and
President, Jon Chapman. “We wanted to design an educational program
that benefits those who are impacted by mental health challenges,
those who want to build and maintain positive mental health, and
those who have the opportunity to positively impact the mental
health of a friend or peer.”
HCA Healthcare also has a long-standing collaboration with the
Jason Foundation whose primary mission is the prevention of
youth/young adult suicide. This collaboration provides educational
resources and youth suicide prevention training to students,
parents and teachers in our communities. In addition, HCA
Healthcare increased essential access to mental wellness resources
for colleagues during the COVID-19 pandemic, including:
- Nurse Care: a unique and confidential mental health
program for the needs of HCA Healthcare hospital-based nurses.
- PsychHub: a COVID-19 mental health resource hub, created
by a national mental health coalition to meet the mental health
needs of individuals during this pandemic.
- Beacon Health Wellbeing Program: a program where
employees can schedule confidential in-person, phone or video call
sessions with a licensed counselor.
- Bright Horizons Care Advantage: access to programs to
support employees looking for a babysitter, nanny, support for a
special needs child, elder care provider, dog walker or
housekeeper.
- Doctor on Demand: a telemedicine app currently free for
all employees and their dependents that connects them with
board-certified physicians via video on a smartphone, tablet or
computer. In addition to colds, sinus infections and skin and eye
conditions, physicians can also provide care for anxiety,
depression and stress.
- American Nurses Association COVID-19 Resource Center:
access to tools that support the mental health and resilience of
nurses by the American Nurses Foundation.
For more information about HCA Healthcare’s collaboration with
EVERFI, please email Community.Engagement@HCAhealthcare.com.
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 186 hospitals, surgery centers, freestanding
ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics, in 21 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.
About EVERFI, Inc.
EVERFI is an international technology company driving social
change through education to address the most challenging issues
affecting society ranging from financial wellness to prescription
drug safety to workplace conduct and other critical topics. Founded
in 2008, EVERFI is fueled by its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)
community engagement platform and has reached more than 41 million
learners globally. Recognized as one of the World’s Most Innovative
Companies by Fast Company in 2020, EVERFI powers community
engagement in a sustained manner to empower individuals and
organizations to make an impact within their communities. Some of
America’s leading CEOs and venture capital firms are EVERFI
investors including Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, Google
Chairman Eric Schmidt, Twitter founder Evan Williams, as well as
Advance, Rethink Education, Rethink Impact, The Rise Fund, and TPG
Growth. To learn more about EVERFI and how you can #answerthecall
please visit everfi.com or follow us on Facebook, Instagram,
LinkedIn, or Twitter @EVERFI.
All references to “Company,” “HCA” and “HCA
Healthcare” as used throughout this document refer to HCA
Healthcare, Inc. and its affiliates.
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INVESTOR CONTACT Mark Kimbrough 615-344-2688
MEDIA CONTACTS HCA Healthcare: Harlow Sumerford
615-344-1851 EVERFI: Jennifer Edgerly 202-871-3637
jedgerly@everfi.com
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