HCA Healthcare Announces $150,000 Donation to Local Veterans’ Organizations
November 09 2021 - 2:00PM
Business Wire
REBOOT Recovery, A Soldier’s Child,
Operation Stand Down Tennessee and Middle Tennessee State
University Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family
Center among recipients
HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading
healthcare providers, and the HCA Healthcare Foundation today
honored U.S. military veterans, those currently serving and their
families by donating a total of $150,000 to local veteran support
organizations. The donations were in honor of the late HCA
Healthcare employee Avery King, an Air Force veteran who was
instrumental in the creation of the Military Affairs Program, the
Company’s veteran and military spouse employment program.
HCA Healthcare and the HCA Healthcare Foundation contributed to
the following organizations during a Veteran’s Day event, “BRAVE
Conversations: Honoring Our Veterans”
- REBOOT Recovery
- A Soldier’s Child
- Operation Stand Down Tennessee
- MTSU Charlie and Hazel Daniels Veterans and Military Family
Center
“HCA Healthcare is proud to support and honor our nation’s
veterans and military spouses for their service to our country,”
said Sherri Neal, chief diversity officer of HCA Healthcare.
“Today, we are especially honored to celebrate the life and legacy
of Avery King, a treasured member of the HCA Healthcare family, by
contributing to several organizations. We hope that our gift will
positively impact the veteran community here in Tennessee and
across the country.”
“REBOOT Recovery is the largest peer-led trauma healing program
in the world, and we have been the recipient of HCA Healthcare’s
Veterans Day gift for the past six years,” said Evan Owens,
executive director of REBOOT Recovery. "We are humbled to receive a
donation in honor of Avery, who was a longtime board member of our
organization. This gift will provide trauma healing courses to
veterans, their families and first responders at nearly 300
locations in 34 states and seven countries.”
“A Soldier’s Child is humbled by this donation from HCA
Healthcare,” said Daryl J.W. Mackin, founder and executive director
of A Soldier’s Child. “Our mission is to serve Gold Star families,
and these funds will go a long way, helping us fund camps and
celebrations for children of fallen service members. We can think
of no better way to honor the life of Avery King and other fellow
veterans.”
“Avery King was a longtime friend and champion of Operation
Stand Down Tennessee,” said Eden Murrie, CEO of Operation Stand
Down Tennessee. “His leadership in the community helped to pave the
way for this organization to provide veterans and their families
with resources and basic needs, transition assistance, housing,
peer engagement, volunteerism and community connection. We are
proud to accept this donation and will honor Avery’s life further
by including him and his wife Lynda with dog tags in our
one-of-a-kind ‘Dog Tag Flag.’”
“Thanks to this donation, the MTSU Charlie and Hazel Daniels
Veterans and Military Family Center will establish the Avery King
Memorial Scholarship Fund to support the financial needs of U.S.
military service members, veterans and military spouses and
children who are enrolled students at Middle Tennessee State
University,” said Lieutenant General Keith M. Huber, U.S. Army
(Retired), MTSU Senior Advisor for Veterans and Leadership
Initiatives. “Avery was committed to assisting veterans and
military spouses with transition assistance and employment, and we
know this scholarship will provide a lasting legacy of Avery's
work.”
HCA Healthcare has a longstanding commitment to U.S veteran and
military communities. Since 2012, HCA Healthcare has hired more
than 40,000 veterans, active-duty personnel and military spouses.
In 2021, HCA Healthcare received the Secretary of Defense Employer
Support Freedom Award and was again named one of the country's best
employers for military-connected employment programs, benefits and
support by the Military Times. Additionally, HCA Healthcare has
been nationally recognized as a military-friendly employer and
military-spouse friendly employer for ten consecutive years by
VIQTORY, and in 2015, received the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Hiring
our Heroes – Lee Anderson Award for overall excellence in hiring
and retaining veterans, transitioning service members and military
spouses.
About HCA Healthcare Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is
one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services
comprising 183 hospitals and approximately 2,000 ambulatory sites
of care, including 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 32
million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve
patient care and save lives. Please click here to connect with HCA
Healthcare on social media.
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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