Overview
HMA hospital employees do more than just care for their patients in the hospital. They are active in civic and community organizations and donate thousands of volunteer hours to local charities to improve the quality of life in our communities.
The Good Citizen
Whenever HMA acquires a hospital, it maintains the current employee base. As medical services are added over time, the hospital’s employee base will grow commensurate with patient volumes. HMA’s hospitals also increase a community’s tax base as major physical expansions and renovations typically follow.
In addition to active service in many civic organizations, each hospital’s employees also make sizable contributions to local charities both in the form of fundraising and donations of time and energy. A few examples of HMA’s good citizenship activities follow.
Local Efforts
- Employee volunteers from many HMA hospitals and the corporate office help to build homes for Habitat for Humanity.
- An HMA chief nursing officer was the March of Dimes’ WalkAmerica Chair for Cherokee County, South Carolina.
- HMA hospital employees generously contributed to many local United Way campaigns.
- Virtually every HMA hospital hosted free public health fairs last year. Health education lectures and many health screenings were made available to community residents throughout the year.
- Highlands Regional Medical Center in Sebring, Florida, donated a defibrillator to the Sebring International Raceway. It filled a critical need inasmuch as the raceway attracts more than 150,000 spectators each year.
- Contributions for college scholarships for local students were raised in a number of HMA communities.
- Hospital employees in Mississippi raised funds to send kindergarten kids on a field trip that otherwise would have been canceled when funds ran short after Hurricane Katrina.
- Seven Rivers Regional Medical Center established a website that provides interactive tools for self-assessment tests on various medical conditions and, if necessary, provides help for prospective patients to find a highly-qualified physician.
National Support
- Nationally-recognized health care related charities receive substantial financial support each year. Virtually every HMA hospital enters a team in the American Cancer Society’s “Relay for Life” activities.
- Other activities raised sizable funds for the United Way, American Heart Association and the March of Dimes for medical research to find cures for heart disease, birth defects, leukemia, diabetes and several other major illnesses.