Company Makes Match Commitment and Establishes Special Fund for Employee Contributions
HCA today announced it has committed to match employee contributions and
provide in-kind donations for a $1 million total contribution. Cash
donations will go to relief organizations including the Red Cross and
Doctors Without Borders.
Relief agencies are advising that cash and supplies are currently more
helpful than volunteers. Therefore, the company is encouraging employees
anxious to help to make a donation. HCA has established the ability for
employees, physicians, facility volunteers or others affiliated with the
company to give directly to a special relief fund, “The HCA Haiti Relief
Fund,” administered through the Community Foundation of Middle
Tennessee. The company will match employee gifts to this fund.
Tax-deductible donations to this fund may be made by either check or
credit card at www.cfmt.org/HCAHaitiReliefFund.
“The devastation in Haiti is almost incomprehensible,” said HCA Chairman
and CEO, Richard M. Bracken, “and some members of the HCA family have
been personally affected. We wanted to act quickly to provide assistance
from the company and to establish an effective mechanism by which our
people could fulfill their desire to help.”
The company also is coordinating medical supply donations from its
facilities across the country through its East Florida Division, based
in Ft. Lauderdale. Working with Food for the Poor, a South Florida
relief organization, local facility supply officers are identifying
available supplies most appropriate to meet current needs and arranging
for collection and delivery.
HCA’s employee assistance program, “The Hope Fund,” is reaching out to
provide help to employees who have family members who may have been
directly affected by the tragedy.
HCA’s temporary staffing agency, All About Staffing, is accepting the
names of HCA clinical staff and disaster-trained employees who are
interested in volunteering, and will apprise them of opportunities once
the situation in Haiti has stabilized.
All references to “Company” and “HCA” as used throughout this
document refer to HCA Inc. and its affiliates.
INVESTOR CONTACT:
Mark Kimbrough
615-344-2688
MEDIA CONTACT:
Ed Fishbough
615-344-2810