HCA Healthcare Named a Best Employer for Veterans by Military Times for Fourth Consecutive Year
November 13 2023 - 7:30AM
Business Wire
HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE:HCA), one of the nation’s leading
healthcare providers, today announced that it has been recognized
for the fourth consecutive year as a Best for Vets Employer by
Military Times. This recognition highlights the efforts that HCA
Healthcare makes to recruit, retain and support current and former
service members, military spouses and military caregivers. Since
2012, HCA Healthcare has hired more than 60,000 veterans,
active-duty and reserve personnel and military spouses.
The Military Times 2023 Best for Vets: Employers ranking is an
editorially independent, highly respected analysis of the policies
and practices that make companies an attractive place to work for
both current employees and future job seekers within the military
community. Rankings are based on the results of a voluntary survey
which seeks to capture the areas of greatest importance to
transitioning service members, veterans and their families when
choosing an employer. Recruitment and employment practices, as well
as retention and support programs, are given the most weight in
scoring.
“It is an honor to be recognized by Military Times for a fourth
year in a row. We take immense pride in welcoming, supporting and
celebrating our nation's veterans and their families,” said Sherri
Neal, chief diversity officer at HCA Healthcare. “We are incredibly
grateful for their dedicated service and have directly witnessed
how their military values contribute to HCA Healthcare's mission:
Above all else, we are committed to the care and improvement of
human life.”
This year, HCA Healthcare has also earned the following
distinctions for its efforts to support U.S. veteran and military
communities:
- VIQTORY has recognized HCA Healthcare as a Military Friendly
employer for 13 consecutive years. This year, HCA Healthcare has
been upgraded to Gold distinction for its veteran hiring practices,
programs and support initiatives.
- RecruitMilitary® has recognized HCA Healthcare as a 2023
Champion for Military Hiring based on the pursuit of hiring
excellence. In 2017, HCA Healthcare was awarded the Most Valuable
Employer’s Award for demonstrating excellence in the recruitment,
development and retention of military talent.
- Disabled American Veterans® has recognized and awarded HCA
Healthcare the Patriot Employer award for demonstrating an
unwavering commitment to hiring and supporting military talent
through employment policies, hiring practices and community
outreach.
Year to date, HCA Healthcare has hired more than 6,000 veterans,
active-duty and reserve personnel and military spouses. The
organization also provides pathways for non-traditional military
talent to find meaningful employment opportunities in healthcare
through partnerships with Hiring Our Heroes, 50-Strong and local
veteran service organizations across the country. HCA Healthcare
also maintains a Veterans Colleague Network which helps promote
community and purpose and has also been successful in helping
recently transitioned veterans navigate the civilian workforce. For
those who wish to continue serving, HCA Healthcare offers military
leave and supplemental pay to eligible colleagues to serve as
active duty military while working at HCA Healthcare.
As part of its commitment to supporting veterans, this year HCA
Healthcare is giving:
- $50,000 to REBOOT Recovery, a national peer-led trauma healing
program for veterans, their families and first responders, to
assist in launching their updated comprehensive program. This will
be HCA Healthcare’s eighth Veterans Day gift to the
organization.
- $50,000 to the Gary Sinise Foundation to aid in the home build
for a veteran who was wounded in the line of duty. To date, the
foundation has completed over 85 specially adapted smart homes for
severely wounded veterans and first responders.
- $25,000 to Operation Stand Down Tennessee, an organization that
engages veterans early in their transition from military service to
find meaningful employment, including showing them how to access
available veteran benefits.
- $15,000 to A Soldier’s Child, a local nonprofit serving family
members of fallen service members who died while serving in a time
of conflict, for their mentorship and scholarship programs.
- $10,000 to CreatiVets, an organization dedicated to empowering
veterans and their families to find healing from service-related
trauma through art, including songwriting, visual arts, music and
creative writing. This gift will assist with completing the
development of their formulary in which music can be prescribed as
therapy to find healing, empowerment and joy.
HCA Healthcare has a long history of supporting veterans and
their families. In 2011, HCA Healthcare joined the Veteran Jobs
Mission as an inaugural employer member, committed to the
coalition’s goal of hiring 100,000 veterans by 2020. In 2012, HCA
Healthcare joined the second cohort of the Department of Defense’s
Military Spouse Employment Partnership in order to formalize its
commitment to hiring military spouses. In 2013, HCA Healthcare
joined the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Hiring Our Heroes national
advisory councils on veteran and military spouse employment, and,
in 2015, HCA Healthcare received the Lee Anderson Award for overall
excellence in hiring and retaining veterans, transitioning service
members and military spouses. In 2018, HCA Healthcare was an
inaugural employer partner of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s
“Hiring 100,000 Military Spouses” campaign and has since hired more
than 7,000 military spouses. In 2019, HCA Healthcare and the U.S.
Army Medical Recruitment Brigade created the Patriot Partnership
Program providing specialized education and training for physician
residency and fellowship programs nationwide. In 2021, HCA
Healthcare received the Secretary of Defense Employer Support
Freedom Award, the highest recognition given by Employer Support of
the National Guard and Reserves (ESGR).
About HCA Healthcare
Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading
providers of healthcare services comprising 183 hospitals and
approximately 2,300 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%. HCA Healthcare is a learning
health system that uses its more than 37 million annual patient
encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save
lives.
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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