Humana Spotlights Commitment to Addressing Social Determinants of Health in 2018 Corporate Social Responsibility Report
May 16 2019 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Report details how Humana is working to inspire
health & well-being for the people and communities the company
serves
Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM), one of the nation’s leading health and
well-being companies, today released its 2018 Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) report. In the comprehensive report, Humana
details its continuing commitment to helping the individuals and
communities it serves live their best lives by expanding and
improving access to affordable healthcare.
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“At Humana, we see firsthand the impact that access to quality,
affordable care has on our members and employees,” said Bruce D.
Broussard, Humana’s President and Chief Executive Officer.
“Throughout our 2018 CSR Report, we’ve highlighted many of the ways
we’re working to improve the ‘health of care’ – from our focus on
integrated care delivery, to our work in value-based care, to our
companywide efforts to address social determinants of health that
impact the health and lives of the people we serve.”
In 2018, Humana heightened its focus on initiatives targeting
social determinants of health – conditions in the places where
people live, learn, work and play, such as social isolation, food
insecurity, and lack of transportation access – that can often
result in roadblocks to good health. Humana’s wide-ranging
capabilities uniquely position the company to address health
outside of the doctor’s office – and deliver integrated care that
can improve people’s health and quality of life.
Humana’s 2018 CSR Report highlights the company’s commitment to
providing whole-person healthcare, investments in supporting
healthy communities, and dedication to achieving sustainable growth
through responsible business practices and environmental
stewardship. The report features several examples of how Humana is
inspiring health and well-being:
For Each Person:
- Humana Employees: In 2018,
Humana achieved its employee Bold Goal, increasing employees’
Healthy Days by 20 percent, as measured by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention’s Healthy Days tool. Since 2012, Humana
employees have gained 2.3 million more Healthy Days, or roughly an
extra week of better days per year for each employee. The company
set a new goal to achieve 500,000 more Healthy Days for employees
by the end of 2022, using 2018 as a baseline.
- Integrated Care: Humana teamed
up with Walgreens to provide easier access to primary care and
other services for seniors in the Kansas City, Missouri area. Two
newly established Partners in Primary Care clinics at Walgreens
stores in the region combine primary care, pharmacy, in-person
health plan support and other services for Medicare beneficiaries.
Additionally, through completing its minority ownership
acquisitions of Kindred at Home and Curo Health, Humana began
testing and learning new care and payment models in five
communities – to improve health outcomes of members with multiple
chronic conditions.
- Opioid Addiction: As part of the
national effort to combat opioid overuse, Humana set a goal to
reduce the number of members receiving opioid prescriptions greater
than 100 morphine milligram equivalent (MME), a dosage that raises
the risks of opioid overdose, by 40 percent. In 2018, Humana closed
in on its goal, reducing the number of members receiving
prescriptions greater than 100 MME by 36 percent.
For Each Community:
- Bold Goal: From 2015 to 2018,
Humana Medicare Advantage members in Humana’s original seven Bold
Goal communities, places where Humana is working to achieve its
goal of helping people improve their health 20 percent by 2020,
experienced a 2.7 percent improvement in their Healthy Days.
Meanwhile, Humana seniors in San Antonio improved their Healthy
Days by 9.8 percent, marking the halfway point toward their Bold
Goal. The company screened more than 500,000 people for social
determinants of health needs in these Bold Goal communities and
developed toolkits to help physicians screen for and address social
isolation, loneliness, and food insecurity in patients.
- The Humana Foundation: In 2018,
the Humana Foundation invested $7.4 million in nine organizations
located in Bold Goal communities as part of its new community
investment strategy focused on creating sustainable results
addressing social determinants of health. (See video links below.)
The Foundation aims to co-create communities where leadership,
culture and systems work to improve and sustain long-term positive
health outcomes.
For the Future:
- Environmental Goals: In 2018,
Humana set new environmental targets for greenhouse gas emissions
and waste, using a 2017 baseline, with a goal to reach or exceed
the targets by the end of 2022.
- Humana set a new goal of 2.1 percent
year-over-year greenhouse gas emissions reduction, and exceeded the
2.1 percent reduction in 2018. The goal covers Humana’s portfolio
of owned and leased properties under direct company
control. Sustainability-investment projects and
building-optimization changes have made most of the impact.
- The waste goal was set at 60 percent
waste diversion. By recycling and reusing more, and sending
less waste to landfills, Humana is currently ahead of its
waste-diversion goal – achieving a rate of 60.3 percent at the
sites where Humana and its vendors manage waste and recycling
services.
- Inclusion & Diversity: In
2018, Humana formed GenUs, a multigenerational network resource
group (NRG) that helps employees create and celebrate
intergenerational connections. The company also established nine
new Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) Councils to foster employee
inclusion and belonging within the changing landscape of the
workforce.
CSR Report Videos
To learn about the Humana Foundation’s collaboration with
nonprofits in the strategic investment program’s first year, view
these videos featuring San Antonio partner organizations:
- Older Adults Technology Services
(OATS) received an investment to address social isolation. The
Senior Planet San Antonio program reduces isolation and loneliness
and increases social connections by engaging seniors through free
access to internet-connected technology and training courses.
- San Antonio Food Bank received
an investment to impact food insecurity and social isolation by
creating a Senior Wellness Intervention Model program. The program
assists seniors who screen positive for food insecurity and social
isolation with comprehensive services that stabilize their
household and address prevalent health issues.
CSR Report Materiality Assessment & Reporting
Standard
In the fall of 2018, Humana completed a third-party materiality
assessment – including interviews and surveys with more than 1,000
stakeholders from across the country in an effort to learn what
corporate responsibility topics are of the greatest significance to
them. The assessment engaged employees, members, healthcare
providers, suppliers and community partners. Details of this
materiality assessment are included in the CSR Report.
Humana collected and reported its 2018 CSR Report in accordance
with the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the world’s most
recognized standards for environmental, social and governance
reporting. GRI is an independent international organization that
helps businesses, governments and other organizations understand
and communicate the impact of business on critical sustainability
issues.
To learn more about Humana’s accomplishments and continuing
work to inspire health and well-being, read the full 2018 CSR
Report (www.humanacsrreport.com).
About Humana
Humana Inc. is committed to helping our millions of medical and
specialty members achieve their best health. Our successful history
in care delivery and health plan administration is helping us
create a new kind of integrated care with the power to improve
health and well-being and lower costs. Our efforts are leading to a
better quality of life for people with Medicare, families,
individuals, military service personnel, and communities at
large.
To accomplish that, we support physicians and other healthcare
professionals as they work to deliver the right care in the right
place for their patients, our members. Our range of clinical
capabilities, resources and tools – such as in-home care,
behavioral health, pharmacy services, data analytics and wellness
solutions – combine to produce a simplified experience that makes
healthcare easier to navigate and more effective.
More information regarding Humana is available to investors via
the Investor Relations page of the company’s web site
at www.humana.com, including copies of:
- Annual reports to stockholders
- Securities and Exchange Commission
filings
- Most recent investor conference
presentations
- Quarterly earnings news releases and
conference calls
- Calendar of events
- Corporate Governance information
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Jim TurnerHumana Corporate
Affairs502.580.3221jturner2@humana.com
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