TriStar Health announces $1.84 million HCA Healthcare Foundation grant to United Way
TriStar Health, part of HCA Healthcare, today announced that the HCA Healthcare Foundation, through its Healthier Tomorrow Fund, will give $1.84 million to Mile High United Way to launch United for Healthy Starts, a national collaboration between four United Ways to help increase access to social, economic and education support services for families. The effort is led by Mile High United Way in Denver and includes United Way of Metropolitan Dallas, United Way Miami and United Way of Greater Nashville.
“We are thrilled to be part of the United for Healthy Starts collaboration that champions the health and wellbeing of families in the communities we serve,” said Mitch Edgeworth, president of the HCA Healthcare TriStar Division. “As part of our commitment to create healthier tomorrows, we value the collective impact that is possible when we collaborate and support organizations like the United Way of Greater Nashville. Together, our organizations can drive positive change and truly make a difference in our communities.”
United for Healthy Starts aims to increase access to services to improve social, economic and overall health outcomes for families. Through this new grant, the initiative is designed to help families have strong, healthy starts through home visitation and wrap-around services tailored to the needs of each family supported. By establishing a national, collaborative learning community, United for Healthy Starts will also work to help create new nonprofit partnerships, with the intention of strengthening service delivery and innovation and achieving a scalable impact beyond the grant.
“HCA Healthcare Foundation has been a true partner in addressing our community’s most pressing needs. Through the United for Healthy Starts partnership, we’re working together to reduce maternal health disparities, ensuring more mothers and babies receive the care they need to thrive. This collaboration also enables us to launch a maternal health resource navigation line through 211, connecting families—especially in rural areas—to essential services. We are grateful for HCA Healthcare Foundation’s continued commitment to building a healthier future for all”, said Erica Mitchell, president and CEO, United Way of Greater Nashville.
HCA Healthcare and the HCA Healthcare Foundation have a long history of working with and supporting United Way. In 1981, HCA Healthcare co-founder Dr. Thomas Frist Jr. co-founded the first chapter of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society in Nashville, Tennessee and later received its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2012. Over the last 30 years, HCA Healthcare and the HCA Healthcare Foundation have given more than $17 million in support of United Way’s work to help improve communities nationwide.
The HCA Healthcare Foundation’s Healthier Tomorrow Fund supports evidence-informed programs that address high-priority needs and advance community health by supporting efforts to pilot, replicate and scale meaningful, measurable initiatives in communities where HCA Healthcare has a presence. Since its inception, the fund has committed more than $17 million in grants to nonprofits across the country.